VMworld 2013: Best Practices for Application Lifecycle Management with vCloud Automation Center
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The document discusses best practices for application lifecycle management using VMware's vCloud Automation Center, emphasizing the importance of cloud automation and DevOps integration. It outlines the challenges in application maintenance, such as the diversity of frameworks and the need for agile methodologies, while providing a roadmap for adopting automated lifecycle solutions. Key features of vCloud Automation Center are highlighted, including self-service provisioning, policy-based governance, and automated deployment capabilities.
VMworld 2013: Best Practices for Application Lifecycle Management with vCloud Automation Center
- 1. Best Practices for Application Lifecycle Management with vCloud Automation Center Amjad Afanah, VMware Rajesh Khazanchi, VMware VCM5154 #VCM5154
- 2. 22 Forward Looking Statement Statements made in this presentation which are not statements of historical fact are forward-looking statements based upon current expectations. Actual results could differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements. Information regarding risk factors that could cause actual results to materially differ are contained in documents filed by VMware with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including reports that VMware may file with the SEC from time to time on periodic reports on Form 10-Q and Form 10-K and current reports on Form 8-K. VMware assumed no obligation to update any such forward-looking statements after the date of this presentation.
- 3. 33 Agenda • Cloud Automation Overview • Application Maintenance Challenges • DevOps Model • vCloud Automation Center Enterprise Edition – Application Maintenance • Application Director 5.2 Existing Capabilities • vCAC EE 6.0 Capabilities • Roadmap • VWware IT: Application Maintenance Best Practices
- 5. 55 VMware Cloud Management Multiplatform Hybrid Multi-provider Broker of IT Services VMware simplifies and automates IT management and empowers IT to govern services across multiple platforms and providers CIO Turn management into manageability through intelligent, policy-based automation The VMware Approach
- 6. 66 VMware Cloud Management – Key Solution Areas Automate the delivery of infrastructure, applications and desktops as a service across multiple clouds and platforms. Cloud Operations Manage the health, risk, efficiency and compliance of your infrastructure and applications. Cloud Business Govern and manage cloud services as a critical element of running IT like a business. Intelligent operations Policy-based automation Unified management Financial transparency Industry norms Prescriptive guidance Automate everywhere Policy-based control and governance Choice and flexibility
- 7. 77 Cloud Automation – vCloud Automation Center • On-demand access to any infrastructure or application service • Comprehensive governance for approvals, reclamations, cost profiles and transparency • Initial provisioning and lifecycle management • Broad support for physical, virtual and cloud provisioning end points and software mechanisms • Extensibility through integration with existing infrastructures and customizable workflows • Enable business agility through rapid delivery of IT services • Provide IT control by governing who provisions what and where • Extend existing infrastructure, processes and environments with a flexible automation solution Benefits Overview Self - Service IaaS PaaS DaaS XaaS Cloud Automation Center Heterogeneous Infrastructure Policy-Based Governance with Automated Delivery On-demand self-service access to services
- 9. 99 Applications Today Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development Developed with ‘agile’ or ‘iterative’ methodologies Apps released early and often Expanding into new application types Mobile, SaaS, social Written in diverse frameworks Traditional (Java, .Net) and Modern Frameworks Deployed on virtual and cloud infrastructure Span across Private, Public and Hybrid Clouds Private Clouds Public/Private/ Hybrid Cloud Public Clouds Cloud Operating Model • Driven by the Cloud Journey • Leads to distinction of ownership and collaboration DevOps • Apps released early and often • Businesses need frequent changes and expect higher service level.
- 10. 1010 Applications Maintenance Challenges • Manual or script-based application maintenance methods are error prone & take too much time • Applications are developed using different frameworks & can run on different cloud infrastructures – making it harder to achieve consistent application update processes • Agile development requires frequent changes to the applications – requiring better agility to adapt the continuously changing business needs
- 12. 1212 What is DevOps? DevOps is NOT • A role • A market segment • A tool Build Deploy Manage Develop Test Release Deploy Update Configure Patch Run Development Organization IT Organization Application Development IT Infrastructure & Operations Mgmt. DevOps is a movement that advocates 1. Collaboration of Dev & IT Ops People 2. Convergence of Process 3. Creation and Exploitation of Tools
- 13. 1313 How is Application Release Automation Evolving? “Order to Build” – Help desk-centric Script-based Run Book Automation Proprietary / domain knowledge Single server and OS-centric template Waterfall Delivery “Build to Order” – Self-service catalog Model-based / declarative Open / crowd-sourced Multi-node w/ Appstack - “big scale” Continuous Delivery Legacy Future
- 14. 1414 How Software Release Process Works? 1. Team checks in the code to the version control system 2. Every time someone makes a change, the system triggers a build and automated build verification tests 3. After a successful build, other tests are run – functional and load tests – these are quality gates 4. If stage fails, someone needs to know right away – pipeline stops until problem is fixed 5. Last stage – build is approved and goes live
- 15. 1515 Release Automation Solution (1/2) PROVISIONING RELEASE AUTOMATION Config repository, CMDB, Service Repository Source Repository BUILD & RELEASE TOOLS Config Update Operations Tools Policy / Config Update • Jenkins, • Hudson, etc.• Perforce • CVS • Apache Subversion, etc. - IDE • Eclipse, • MS Visual Studio, etc.
- 16. 1616 Release Automation Solution (2/2) PROVISIONING & RELEASE AUTOMATION Deploy - New or Update existing workload Test Promote - Promote changes to other environments - UAT / STAGE Test Production - Run load & functional tests within Test before promotion Approvals Once Automation & Manual Tests Succeed – Promote to Production Approvals
- 17. 1717 vCloud Automation Center Enterprise Edition – Application Maintenance Capabilities
- 18. 1818 Application Director 5.2 Highlights Accelerated Application Provisioning with Standardized Blueprints • Graphical drag-and-drop canvas for modeling application blueprints • Comprehensive deployment execution plans • Growing marketplace Automated Application Provisioning, Update Lifecycle and Release Automation Solution for Cloud Ready Applications on Hybrid Clouds Cloud Ready • Cloud agnostic application blueprints • Out-of-box support for application stacks • Extensible architecture Automated Update Lifecycle Operations • Support for Day-2 Operations across all tiers of the application deployment – including o Config & Code Updates o Scale Out o Teardown of Apps
- 19. 1919 Application Director Themes – Q4 2013 (1/3) • Enforce policies across the different deployment environments by blacklisting application services or enforcing mandatory services • Facilitate policy-based provisioning by setting # of Total Instances (VM’s) limits across all nodes in a deployment • Compliance View showing policy violations against currently active and effective policies on deployments & application updates Policy-based Provisioning Reduce time to deliver workload by connecting to an external or existing service such as • Provisioned Database, • Existing Database or F5 Load Balancer External Services Extend application updates capabilities by providing • Ability to rollback failed updates to restore the business & reduce the time to update an application, • Re-use of update profiles that store frequently used update scripts & properties • Promote changes across Deployment Environments to facilitate Release Automation • Scale-in clustered applications to save unused resources Application Updates Publish & Request Applications from the Service Catalog • Model applications using an intuitive drag-and-drop canvas and publish Deployment Profiles & Applications to the Service Catalog • Request applications from the Service Catalog & view overall deployment status from within the same console Facilitate multi-tenancy by enabling the sharing & publishing of items (including Applications, Services & Logical Templates) between different groups (e.g. companies within an ISP) Multi-Tenancy
- 20. 2020 • Reuse Puppet content to build application blueprints in Application Director allowing customers to: • ** Model multi-tier applications using Puppet modules - a complementary feature • Mix and match Puppet & non-Puppet content in application blueprints • Support for both Puppet Open Source and Puppet Enterprise • Manage the application update life-cycle while maintaining multi-node dependencies, property bindings, & diverse content types • Leverage vCAC Service Catalog to publish & request Puppet applications • Multi-tenancy & role-based access layer • Driver-based architecture that can be used for other integrations in the future – e.g. Chef, etc. Integration with Puppet DBaaS • Enable an architect to define additional disks for each individual node; • Enable application deployer to customize the deployment profile for additional disks (placing disk to specific datastore, or set new size for disks, etc.); • Enable deployer to write a scripts that run in guest OS to access the metadata of additional disks; • Provide enhanced Oracle & MS SQL Server database application blueprints From within the Application Director UI • Browse and search both Application Blueprints and Application Services available in the marketplace • Import both Application Blueprints and Application Services – including EULA and Cloud Solution Descriptor & Artifact files Marketplace Integration Application Director Themes – Q4 2013 (2/3)
- 21. 2121 Extend the External REST API’s to automate • Creating • Cloud Providers – including importing Cloud Templates • Deployment Environments • Update Profiles • Updating • Logical Templates • Deployment Profiles API Enhancements Application Director Themes – Q4 2013 (3/3)
- 22. 2222 Application Updates (1/2) Rollback Updates Rollback updates to the previous successful state with user-defined “rollback scripts” Visualize both the update flow and the rollback flow in the Execution Plan Rollback scripts cover the dependent components in an application model Update Profile Re-Use • Save a repeatable update as an Update Profile • Supported updates are configuration, code & scale-out • Modify the value of a changed property while reusing an update profile • Add custom tasks in the update execution flow Rollback updates to restore business Re-use update profiles to reduce time to execute frequently used update scripts & properties Improve operational efficiency and meet the expected service levels Operate at scale by facilitating the reuse of update profiles for the same application Overview Benefits
- 23. 2323 Application Updates (2/2) Promote Updates Promote updates to different Deployment Environments – e.g. promoting an update from Dev to Test Update promotion applies to application deployments of the same application Notifications about available “promoted updates” will be available allowing deployers to decide whether or not to apply the promoted update Scale-In • Scale-in a clustered deployment to save unused compute resources if the application is not load constrained Visualize both the scale-in flow in the Execution Plan Scale-in update covers the dependent components in an application model Facilitate release automation and improve operational efficiency by promoting updates across Deployment Environments – e.g. Dev to Test, or Test to Staging Free up resources when performing scale-in if the application is not load constrained. Overview Benefits
- 24. 2424 Private Cloud Public Cloud Public Amazon Cloud Make a Change – Code, Configuration, Scale-Out Change 1 Test Stage Production Update Profile Change Impact Analysis Dependency Mapping Auto-Generate Update Flow 2 Change Apply Change3 Promote to Next Stag Change 4 Change 5 Production NanoTrader Application Blueprint Lifecycle Mgmt: Application Updates Overview 2013-14
- 25. 2525 vFabric Application Director 5.2 - Automated Deployment for Linux & Windows Applications - Config & Code Updates - Scale Out - Tear Down vCAC EE (Q4 2013) - Promote Updates - Update Profile Re-Use - Rollback of Failed Updates - Scale-in vCAC EE (2014 & Beyond) - Support update scripts that do not affect the flow & adding properties post deployment - Support for release automation stage gates for approvals & governance - DBaaS: Data Ingestion, Snapshot & Clone - Plug-ins for IDE’s, Version Control Systems, Continuous Integration, & Test Automation Tools Release Automation Solution PROVISIONING & RELEASE AUTOMATION Deploy - New or Update existing workload Test Promote - Promote changes to other environments - UAT / STAGE Test Production - Run load & functional tests within Test before promotion Approvals Once Automation & Manual Tests Succeed – Promote to Production Approvals
- 26. 2626 VWware IT: Application Maintenance Best Practices
- 27. 27 Corporate IT Application Group Manage portfolio of enterprise applications used by global business functions DevOps Goal Leverage Application Director and vCAC to automate entire application lifecycle Team 27 DevOps engineers Role Provision 16 different dev/test instances that include 130+ app components Infrastructure footprint ~4000 non-production VMs ~500 production VMs Enterprise Application Portfolio SaaS 65 IT tools 50 Business 100 Total 215
- 28. 28 Corporate IT Technology Stack Web Presentation Middleware ERP/ DB Identity/Access
- 29. 2929 Other VMware Activities Related to This Session HOL: HOL-SDC-1314 vCloud Suite Use Cases - Application Provisioning (PaaS) Group Discussions: VCM1000-GD Application Director with Amjad Afanah
- 30. THANK YOU
- 32. Best Practices for Application Lifecycle Management with vCloud Automation Center Amjad Afanah, VMware Rajesh Khazanchi, VMware VCM5154 #VCM5154