Presentation by VMware

1. Cloud Native Apps @VMware
@clouldnativeapps
#vmwcna
Massimo Re Ferrè
VMware Cloud Architect – CNA Business Unit

2. Your Presenter
• 15 years @IBM doing (primarily) “VMware virtualization stuff”
• 5+ years @VMware doing “public and private cloud stuff”
vCloud Director
vCloud Air
Cloud Native Applications
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Massimo Re Ferrè

3. Agenda
What Have we Open Sourced Anyway?
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4. Docker is a “shipping container for code”
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Developers because …
• Frictionless deployment and maximum portability
On developer laptop:
Then on server:
That’s it!!
• A natural fit for 3rd Platform, 12 factor,
microservices
• It makes DevOps much, much easier
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~# docker build my_app
~# docker push my_app
~#
~# docker pull my_app
~# docker run my_app
~#

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VMware Photon Platform – Optimized Approach for Cloud Scale
New Platform Built and Optimized for
Containers
Rich API Set
Distributed management
Differentiating Benefits
Speed – Spin-up in seconds
Scale – Supports hundreds of thousands of containers
Core Components
Photon Controller – Distributed Management and
Control, Project Lightwave
Photon Machine – Host
“Cloud-Native Platform”
VMware Photon Platform
Photon Controller
Photon Machine

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What’s in Photon Platform
Cloud
Foundry
Docker Hadoop …
Deep integration with modern, open source
frameworks and application and data platforms
Photon Controller
Host controller and scheduler
Distributed, multi-tenant control plane,
includes Project Lightwave
Single API endpoint
Photon Machine
Compute host
API

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vSphere Approach (for comparison)
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vCenter
Centralized Management /
Control Plane
User: UI (and APIs)
Flexibility to run Virtual Machine as well as Container workloads

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Photon Platform Approach (for comparison)
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User: APIs (and UI)
Photon Controller - Distributed Management / Control Plane
Optimized for Container workloads at scale

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Photon Platform Architecture
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Photon API
Photon Controller
Clustered design
delivers massive
scale and high-
availability.
Combination of
local and/or shared
Photon Host
datastores.
Photon Controller #2
Photon Controller #3
Cloud Foundry API Kubernetes API
Create CF cluster
Create Kubernetes clustercf push
cf scale
kubectl create
kubectl get pods
Photon Controller #1
Cloud Foundry
Cluster
Kubernetes Cluster
Photon Machine

10. Photon Controller Open Source
Download Now!
vmware.github.io/photon-controller
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11. Demo time!
Docker Swarm
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on top of
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Photon Controller
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12. “Lab Setup”
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Photon API
Photon Controller
Clustered design
delivers massive
scale and high-
availability.
Photon Controller #2
Photon Controller #3
Photon Controller #1
Photon Machine

13. “Lab Setup”
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Photon API
Photon Controller #1

14. “Lab Setup”
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Photon API
Docker API
Photon Controller #1
Swarm Cluster

15. “Lab Setup”
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Photon API
Docker API
docker run
docker ps
Photon Controller #1
Swarm Cluster
photon-cli host list
photon-cli cluster create
Terminal
Fusion VM
Fusion VM

16. Thank you!
Massimo Re Ferrè (@mreferre)
@cloudnativeapps
#vmwcna
blogs.vmware.com/cloudnative
microservices@vmware.com