Improving Software Delivery with DevOps & Software Defined Environments | The New IBM UrbanCode Deploy with Patterns
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The document discusses IBM's DevOps and cloud services, emphasizing the need for accelerated software delivery and continuous feedback to meet customer demands. It highlights various tools and methodologies that improve collaboration, testing, and deployment processes in software development while addressing the challenges of deploying cloud environments. Furthermore, it outlines the integration of OpenStack for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and the benefits of using IBM Urbancode for automating deployment and management routines.
Improving Software Delivery with DevOps & Software Defined Environments | The New IBM UrbanCode Deploy with Patterns
- 1. © 2013 IBM Corporation Accelerating Product and Service Innovation Improving Software Delivery with DevOps & Software Defined Environments Michael Elder, IBM Senior Technical Staff Member [email protected] http://linkedin.com/in/mdelder @mdelder
- 2. © 2013 IBM Corporation "Success is not delivering a feature; success is learning how to solve the customer’s problem.” - Mark Cook
- 3. © 2013 IBM Corporation Accelerate software delivery Balance speed, cost, quality and risk Reduce time to customer feedback People Process Technology Develop/Test Deplo y Operate Steer IBM DevOps Enterprise capability for continuous software delivery that enables clients to seize market opportunities and reduce time to customer feedback
- 4. © 2013 IBM Corporation Throughput of each process must be the equal in order to avoid backlogs. When preceding process is upgraded to a higher throughput, subsequent processes must be upgraded to the same higher throughput in order to maintain balance. Optimize pipeline with an even flow end to end
- 5. © 2013 IBM Corporation IBM DevOps increases velocity of application delivery Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) enables agile development Rational Test Workbench and Rational Test Virtualization Server (GreenHat) enables Continuous Testing IBM UrbanCode solutions enable Continuous Release and Deployment SmartCloud Monitoring, Worklight Quality Assurance, IBM Digital Analytics and others enable Continuous Monitoring and customer feedback IBM UrbanCode Deploy Release Rational Team Concert Rational Focal Point Rational Requirements Composer Rational Build Forge IBM UrbanCode Release
- 6. © 2013 IBM Corporation Deploying cloud environments still slow and manual Takes many hours to days to deploy virtual environments and requires multiple specialists to collaborate and coordinate –Provisioning infrastructure and configuring network, storage and compute –Installing and configuring Middleware (Application Server, Database) –Installing user application and application data Reduced productivity of Developers and Testers due to slow availability of test environments Slow delivery of applications to production environments Manual coordination to provision infrastructure, install and configure middleware and deploy application Release
- 7. © 2013 IBM Corporation7 • What are our clients saying about their needs? • What’s the right level of control vs. flexibility for my use cases? • What cloud does IBM recommend for Infrastructure as a Service? What should you know about cloud?
- 8. © 2013 IBM Corporation What our clients are saying about deploying cloud environments Application Workloads include Infrastructure, Middleware and Applications • I want to manage these holistically • Different people have expertise in each area • I have different automation tools for each layer Let me choose when to re-provision and when to update • Sometimes I want to test in a transient environment • Other times I want to deploy changes into an existing environment, especially production Don’t make me pick a cloud • Different workloads have different homes • I want to be able to test in one cloud, and run production in another
- 9. © 2013 IBM Corporation DevOps and Cloud adoption Customization; higher costs; slower time to value Standardization; lower costs; faster time to value Networking Storage Servers Virtualization O/S Middleware Data Applications Platform as a Service PureApplication System SmartCloud Orchestrator SoftLayer IBM DevOps Services 10 IBM Patterns Networking Networking Storage Storage Servers Servers Virtualization Virtualization O/S O/S Middleware Middleware Mid Config Mid Config Data Data Applications Applications Traditional On-Premises Infrastructure as a Service Manual UrbanCod e Deploy UrbanCode Deploy (available with UCDP) Mid Config IBM Bluemix UrbanCode Deploy w/Patterns (provisioning & deployment only) Automating for faster delivery with DevOps and Cloud
- 10. © 2013 IBM CorporationIBM CONFIDENTIAL OpenStack is a global collaboration of developers & cloud computing technologists working to produce an ubiquitous Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) open source cloud computing platform for public & private clouds. OpenStack is our strategic direction for IaaS cloud Platinum Sponsors Gold Sponsors Compute (core) Provision and manage large networks of virtual machines Dashboard (core) Enables administrators and users to access & provision cloud- based resources through a self-service portal. Heat (core) orchestrates multiple composite cloud applications using templates Ceilometer (shared service) Collect monitoring, metering, and other measurements Storage (core) Provision and manage block-based and object storage Network (core) Provision and manage network connectivity Identity (shared service) Unified authentication across all OpenStack projects and integrates with existing authentication systems. Identity (shared service) Unified authentication across all OpenStack projects and integrates with existing authentication systems. https://ibm.biz/BdxrtX
- 11. © 2013 IBM Corporation OpenStack Heat provides cloud resource orchestration Provides a way to represent infrastructure from OpenStack Recently added support for client-side automation through Shell, Chef, or Puppet Defined a new Domain Specific Language for templates: Heat Orchestration Template (HOT) format Supports updating existing environments in place
- 12. © 2013 IBM Corporation13 • Why aren’t my application changes moving into production as quickly as they moved into my QA environments? • How can the roles involved in delivery, work together with greater efficiency and speed? How does this new technology impact my business?
- 13. © 2013 IBM Corporation The adoption of DevOps => increased velocity of application delivery Puts pressure on the infrastructure to respond more quickly Software Defined Environments enable you to capture infrastructure as a software artifact Deploying infrastructure changes is the current bottleneck for delivery Application Changes Infrastructure Changes
- 14. © 2013 IBM Corporation Application Changes Infrastructure Changes A Change is a Change … …
- 15. © 2013 IBM Corporation Long, complex lifecycle Small iterative changes Role Layer … … Developers/ Testers Specialists Compute, Network, and Storage Platforms Apps
- 16. © 2013 IBM Corporation Developers/ Testers Specialists Compute, Network, and Storage Platforms Apps Full Stack Blueprint (HOT) Cloud Orchestration Describe software defined resources (Compute, Network, Storage) alongside middleware and applications Capture the full stack as a blueprint document, actionable by an automated process
- 17. © 2013 IBM Corporation Compute, Network, and Storage Platforms Apps Compute, Network, and Storage Platforms Apps Compute, Network, and Storage Platforms Apps Dev/Test Cloud Production Cloud Full Stack Blueprint Dev QA Prod Apply the same blueprint to multiple environments
- 18. © 2013 IBM Corporation Version the blueprint using your source control repo (native support for git) Apply the new versions of the template to an existing environment or provision an entire new stack Validate changes with a "canary" pattern to ensure correctness and detect problems earlier Verify entire stack before production Full-Stack Blueprint Software Defined Delivery
- 19. © 2013 IBM Corporation Parameterize differences between cloud environments (network ids, image ids, software versions) Overlay resource types for different kinds of clouds in the same blueprint Enable portability but optimize for each specific cloud platform Full Stack Blueprint Config/Para ms Cloud A Cloud B Config/Para ms Software Defined Portability
- 20. © 2013 IBM Corporation21 • How do you extend your continuous delivery pipeline to take advantage of cloud-based deployments? • How do you create fullstack workloads for each stage of your delivery pipeline? How can you apply these techniques to your business?
- 21. © 2013 IBM Corporation Introducing IBM UrbanCode Deploy with Patterns Pattern designer –Design open, full stack application environments in a diagram or textual editor Design once, deploy anywhere –Deploy full stack environments to multiple clouds Environment lifecycle management –Manage infrastructure change and easily apply changes to existing environments Delivery process automation –Automated delivery process with integrated full stack environments Design and deploy full stack application environments for multiple clouds IBM UrbanCode Deploy with Patterns Application Middleware Config Middleware OS Config Hardware Environment Blueprint https://ibm.biz/BdFc2X
- 22. © 2013 IBM Corporation Faster, repeatable, reliable full-stack deployment processes SCM Build Automation QA PROD Execute application deployment and manage settings across environments Publish build Pull changes SmartCloud Orchestrator EnvironmentsDEVDEVDEVDEV IBM PureApplication System IBM UrbanCode Deploy Cloud Provisioning Deploy Automation IBM UrbanCode Deploy with Patterns 23 https://ibm.biz/BdFcmV
- 23. © 2013 IBM Corporation User Personas for IBM UrbanCode Deploy with Patterns Components Infrastructure Specialists develop and update reusable building blocks for application environment patterns 1 Application Pattern HOT Architects and Integrators design and update application environment patterns from building blocks targeting specific cloud platforms (Amazon, VMWare) 2 Building Blocks 3 Release Engineers leverages the application environment patter to create and manage a multi- stage continuous delivery pipeline 4Application Developers and Testers can test the application changes for in a production-like environment DesignTemplatesDeployTemplates vSys, vApp Application Middleware Config Middleware OS Config Hardware
- 24. © 2013 IBM Corporation Introducing Web-based HOT Editor!
- 25. © 2013 IBM Corporation Let’s get textual!
- 26. © 2013 IBM Corporation Provide catalogs of available resources Compute Network Storage
- 27. © 2013 IBM Corporation Include Software Configuration! UrbanCode Deploy o Provide Software Components right along side infrastructure o Represent these resources in HOT documents o Once, deployed update either from Heat or UrbanCode Deploy o Will support Chef, Puppet, etc over time
- 28. © 2013 IBM Corporation30 • Diagram editor • Source text editor • HOT as-you-type validation • Annotated TODO & errors • Quick palette for searching • Editor functions: Cut, Copy, Paste, Find & Replace • Zoom diagram or text • Comment out infrastructure Demo: Web-based design and provisioning
- 29. © 2013 IBM Corporation IBM UrbanCode focuses on Release Automation Drive down cost Remove manual effort and wasted resource time with push button deployment processes Speed time to market Simple, graphical process designer, with built-in actions to quickly create deployment automation Reduce risk Robust configuration management, coordinated release processes, audits, and traceability Enabling clients to more rapidly deliver mobile, cloud, big data and traditional applications with high quality and low risk IBM UrbanCode Deploy automates the deployment of applications, databases and configurations into development, test and production environments, helping to drive down cost, speed time to market with reduced risk. IBM UrbanCode Release is an intelligent collaboration release management solution that replaces error-prone manual spreadsheets and streamlines release activities for application and infrastructure changes.
- 30. © 2013 IBM Corporation o Defined by the community and vendors o Integration with UrbanCode Deploy enables rapid configuration of full application stack o Support ongoing updates of deployed versions through UrbanCode Deploy Example: Software
- 31. © 2013 IBM Corporation IBM UrbanCode Deploy o Application-centric view o Understands components, environments, snapshots of verified component versions o Promote from one environment to the next, with approval gates
- 32. © 2013 IBM Corporation IBM UrbanCode Deploy & Heat Templates o Extended to create environments in OpenStack! o Provisioned resources made available for ongoing updates
- 33. © 2013 IBM Corporation IBM UrbanCode Deploy & Heat Templates o Choose HOT document, configuration, and parameters o Discovery service provides easy access to Glance, Neutron, Cinder resources
- 34. © 2013 IBM Corporation36 • View current environments • Create new environments in the cloud • Select available resources from Nova, Neutron, Cinder • Validation feedback in place • Update environment over time • Deploy new component versions Demo: UrbanCode Deploy Consuming Cloud Patterns
- 35. © 2013 IBM Corporation o Chose this approach to support multiple cloud targets from Heat o Enable Heat to talk natively to different cloud APIs o Support portability for customers who haven’t yet adopted OpenStack Example: Decorating Amazon
- 36. © 2013 IBM Corporation40 • Provision Network architecture to OpenStack • Provision Network architecture to Amazon (no OpenStack required) • Select pre-defined configuration for each cloud Demo: Cloud Portability
- 37. © 2013 IBM Corporation41 © Copyright IBM Corporation 2013. All rights reserved. The information contained in these materials is provided for informational purposes only, and is provided AS IS without warranty of any kind, express or implied. IBM shall not be responsible for any damages arising out of the use of, or otherwise related to, these materials. Nothing contained in these materials is intended to, nor shall have the effect of, creating any warranties or representations from IBM or its suppliers or licensors, or altering the terms and conditions of the applicable license agreement governing the use of IBM software. References in these materials to IBM products, programs, or services do not imply that they will be available in all countries in which IBM operates. Product release dates and/or capabilities referenced in these materials may change at any time at IBM’s sole discretion based on market opportunities or other factors, and are not intended to be a commitment to future product or feature availability in any way. IBM, the IBM logo, Rational, the Rational logo, Telelogic, the Telelogic logo, and other IBM products and services are trademarks of the International Business Machines Corporation, in the United States, other countries or both. Other company, product, or service names may be trademarks or service marks of others. www.ibm.com/software
- 38. © 2013 IBM Corporation