Introduction of CloudFoundry concept.

1. Cloud Foundry
2012/03/17 #pyfes
Yohei Sasaki
Was: Re: 果てしないあのCloudFoundryの彼方へ私をつれていって
(*a*rac) 052-9945-4

2. Who are you?
• Yohei Sasaki / @yssk22
• CouchDB / Node.js / Cloud Foundry
• System Developer @ EC service
• English is the official language...
• Technical Writer
• @IT Cloud Foundry Series
• Holiday programmer
• (would be) SPEED evangelist

3. What is Cloud Foundry? (1)
• Offering (& trademark) of VMware, Inc.
• Public Service:
• cloudfoundry.com
• OSS Project:
• cloudfoundry.org
• Developer VM Distribution:
• Micro Cloud Foundry

4. What is Cloud Foundry? (2)
Software as a Service
Platform as a Service
Infrastructure as a Service

5. What is Cloud Foundry? (3)
Software as a Service
Application Data Service
Container Provisioner
Cluster Cluster
Infrastructure as a Service

6. Why Cloud Foundry? (1)
• The value is:
• Multi site application deployment.
app

7. Why Cloud Foundry? (2)
• Multi runtimes and multi framework.
• Available runtimes:
• Java / Ruby / Perl / PHP / Python /
Node.js / C#,VB (ASP.NET) / Erlang /
Smalltalk / ...

8. Why Cloud Foundry? (3)
• Multi data services
• Available services:
• MySQL / PostreSQL / RabbitMQ /
Redis / Memcached / Mongodb /
Neo4j / Atmos / ...
• Any type of data services including
HTTP API could be provisioned on
Cloud Foundry.

9. Demo: Multi site app deployment
pyfes-node-demo.cloud.yssk22.info
pyfes-node-demo.cloudfoundry.com pyfes-node-demo.aws-cf.yssk22.info
app

10. Who use Cloud Foundry?
• Vendor
• Active State,VMware, Tier3, FeedHenry, HP, Dell,
• Service Provider
• cloudfoundry.com, appfog.com, paas.io,
ironfoundry.org
• In house
• Rakuten, Inc.
• cloud.yssk22.info

11. So what?
• Cloud Foundry is a kernel of Platform as a
Service.
• Cloud Foundry site like cloudfoundry.com
is a distribution of Platform as a Service.

12. Missing pieces
• Less open development community.
• Single point of failures in the internal core
messaging hub.
• Lack of data service scalabilities.
• Monetize.

13. Appendix:

14. Getting Started
• Micro Cloud Foundry requires VMware virtual
infrastructure
• VMware workstation, Fusion ...
• Setup script in OSS version of Cloud Foundry is
broken.
• rvm cannot be installed.
• sun-java-* was removed from Ubuntu repository
•

15. OK, use AMI
• ami-5c14a35d (in Tokyo region)
• ssh ubuntu@your-instance
• cd ./cloudfoundry/vcap
• ./bin/vcap -c ../config/ start
• vmc target api.vcap.me

16. FAQ:
• Which version of VMware vSphere is
required to run cloud foundry?
• Nothing required.
• Cloud Foundry does not depends on any
virtualization technologies.
• Only micro cloud foundry requires
desktop VMware products.
• I have never use micro cloud foundry.

17. FAQ:
• How do I learn Cloud Foundry?
• If you want to develop apps on
cloudfoundry, go to http://
start.cloudfoundry.com/
• If you want to build a site on top of
Cloud Foundry, go to https://github.com/
cloudfoundry/vcap
• or go to #cfcrjp (in Japanese) and ask
people what you want to learn.

18. FAQ:
• What are differences betwenn Cloud
Foundry and other PaaS?
• Many of PaaS services (like Google App
Engine, Heroku, ...etc) has only one
infrastructure for each.

19. Thank you.
Any Questions?