Best Practices for Application Lifecycle Management

with vCloud Automation Center

Amjad Afanah, VMware

Rajesh Khazanchi, VMware

VCM5154

#VCM5154

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statements after the date of this presentation.

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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

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Cloud Automation Overview

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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

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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

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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

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Application Maintenance Challenges

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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.

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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

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DevOps Model

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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vCloud Automation Center Enterprise Edition –

Application Maintenance Capabilities

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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

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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

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• 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)

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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)

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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

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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

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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 Change 3

Promote to Next Stage

Change

4

Change

5

Production NanoTrader Application Blueprint

Lifecycle Mgmt: Application Updates Overview 2013-14

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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

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VWware IT: Application Maintenance Best Practices

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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

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Corporate IT Technology Stack

Web

Presentation

Middleware

ERP/ DB

Identity/Access

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Best Practices for Application Lifecycle Management

with vCloud Automation Center

Amjad Afanah, VMware

Rajesh Khazanchi, VMware

VCM5154

#VCM5154