This talk was given by Daniel Lipp, Magnolia, and Marc Korthaus, SysEleven, at Magnolia Conference 2015 in Basel, Switzerland. Magnolia and SysEleven have teamed up to build a robust Magnolia on demand offering that combines the power of Magnolia Enterprise Edition with convenient monthly licensing, optimized deployments, managed upgrades and much more. Attend this session for an overview of the offering, from business and use cases to rollout plans and high-level platform details.

1. Launching
Magnolia on
demand

2. Marc Korthaus
CEO
SysEleven

3. Daniel Lipp
Product Manager, On Demand
Magnolia

4. Magnolia
on demand
Managed
stack
SaaS
Optimized
deployments
Monthly
fee

5. Are we
competing?

6. No, we’re
completing

7. Deployment
Service
Hardware
Software
Licensing
Options
On premise
Traditional
Client-managed
Client-managed
Yearly
Many
Hosted
PaaS or IaaS
Vendor-managed
Client-managed
Yearly
Some
On demand
SaaS
Vendor-managed
Vendor-managed
Monthly
Few

8. On premise
Lowest latency.
Most control.
Most effort.
Hosted
Control of software.
Less IT resources &
infrastructure.
Autoscaling.
On demand
Lowest initial cost.
Monthly licensing.
Fastest setup.
Autoscaling.
More influence / customization options
Less maintenance / housekeeping

9. Where
on demand
rocks
Projects
missing IT
support
Campaign
sites
Proofs of
concept
Agility
required

10. Why
SysEleven?

11. 3 Data Centers, Darkfibre Ring, multiple POPs
Massive bandwidth (>140 GBit, DTAG, BCIX, DE-CIX, AMS-IX)
Premium Hardware (HP, EMC Isilon, Juniper, FusionIO, F5)
> 65 engineers, ISO 27001 “nach BSI”, ITIL- & (soon) PCI-
DSS certified
Focus on application management with real people (24/7,
hardened SLA available)
Working principles based on agile manifesto
SysEleven?

12. If you have to check on a VM, your monitoring
or logging is broken.
If you do manual changes on a VM, you’re not
lazy enough.
If you copy new version of applications
manually, your deployment is broken.
Only a lazy admin is a good admin.
Key Principles

13. Cats

14. Cats have
names

15. Cats need
care

16. 16
Cats are
unique

17. 17
Can only be
restored from
backups

18. 18
Worth
repairing

19. Cattle

20. Have
numbers
instead of
names

21. Don’t
require
care

22. Have no
backup

23. 23
Get
killed

24. Similar to
each other

25. Changes
only in the
repository

26. Powered by OpenStack.
We’ve contributed to OpenStack since 2013.
Alpha live available since 01/15
IaaS with bootstrapping, managed services & SLA
Business cases including IaaS, PaaS & SaaS
… with our engineers powering your application!
SysEleven Stack

27. Demo!

28. Recorded
demo!

29. heat stack-list

31. heat stack-create
-f evaluation.yaml
-e evaluation_env.yaml
-P customer_id=keynote
keynote-stack

33. heat stack-list

35. ./cust_ip.sh keynote-stack

36. $ 10.0.1.41

37. ssh dlipp@10.0.1.42

38. sudo -i

39. tail -f /var/…/catalina.out.log

42. When will
on demand
be ready?
No SLA
(yet)
Beta
starting
today
Evaluation
package
Please give
feedback!

43. How to get on demand?
Link in conference app
magnolia-cms.com/ondemand

44. On demand
next steps
Guaranteed
uptimes
Several
packages
Enhanced
on demand
apps
System-
wide backup
& restore

45. Different packages
… for different needs.
Should be easy to find
package that best fits.
Easy to move to next
higher package
Exact details to follow.

46. Ability will never
catch up with the
demand
— Confucius —

47. Thank
you!