Lightning Talk by Dr. Wei-Min Lu, Founder and CEO Anchora. The Shanghai Jiao Tong University PaaS is a community cloud PaaS based on Cloud Foundry jointly built and operated by the Network and Information Center at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and MoPaaS/Anchora. It serves more than 10,000 professors, instructors, and researchers, and more than 50,000 undergraduate and graduate students. In particular, it provides an agile cloud application platform for R&D and teaching. In this talk, I will share our experience building and operating such a community PaaS using Cloud Foundry.

1. 1
Building a University Community PaaS
Using Cloud Foundry
Yaohui Jin, Deputy Director, Network & Information Center,
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Wei-Min Lu, CEO, Anchora/MoPaaS, China
2014-06-10

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About SJTU and NIC
 Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU)
• One of the top 5 universities in China
• Faculty & staff members: 7,000+
• Students: 36,000+
 Center for Network & Information (NIC)
• Providing IT services for education and research etc
• 40+ employees
• π, No. 204 of TOP500 supercomputer
• 250+ servers in datacenter
6/19/2014

3. 3
About Anchora
• Leading Cloud Platform & Service Provider
in China
– Streamlines app lifecycle management
– The first open public PaaS (MoPaaS) in China
– MoPaaS national network consolidates public/
community PaaS’s
– Top ten most innovative cloud company in China
• Products and Services: MoPaaS
– Public PaaS
– Virtual Private/Community PaaS
– MoPaaS Enterprise Edition: InPaaS
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The MoPaaS Network in China
• MoPaaS Core System
– MoPaaS Cloud App Engine
– Virtual Private Cloud PaaS
• MoPaaS Extended System
– Public Cloud Service Providers
– Community Cloud Service Providers
– MoPaaS Integration
• MoPaaS Cloud Services
– Virtual Private PaaS
– Virtual Community PaaS
– Public PaaS
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SJTU PaaS Jointly Built and Operated
by SJTU NIC and Anchora/MoPaaS
The First University Community PaaS in China
http://www.cf.sjtu.edu.cn/
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Requirements for SJTU PaaS
 Research：Providing research individuals & groups with a unified IT
environment for research projects
 Teaching：A unified development/testing environment for class projects
• The students develop their code on their PCs, and then deploy and test their
apps on the PaaS.
• The teachers monitor the students’ progresses, and run and evaluate their
projects on the PaaS
 Innovation and Entrepreneurship：The university encourages
entrepreneurship; an online incubator for students
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The SJTU PaaS Is Built on OpenStack
Controller 2×E5 2670，64GB，2×300GB，10GE
Compute Node 2×E5 2670，64GB，2×300GB SAS + 4×3TB SATA，10GE
Storage Node 2×E5 2670，64GB，12×2T SATA，10GE
Networking 10GE
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SJTU PaaS Is Based on Cloud Foundry
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The third party
services
Services

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SJTU PaaS Integration with MoPaaS
• MoPaaS Core Systems
– MoPaaS Cloud App Engine
– Virtual Private Cloud PaaS
• SJTU PaaS System
– Community PaaS
– MoPaaS Integration
• Extended PaaS Services
– Limited resources with SJTU PaaS
– Easy Migration to MoPaaS
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Case Studies: Innovation
• The Mobile App Innovation Challenge at STJU
• 67 teams
• Apps on the CF-based PaaS
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Case Study：SJTU WIFI Monitoring Platform
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Case Study： Air Pollution Monitoring and
Analyzing System
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Summary
 SJTU PaaS Is Based on Cloud Foundry
• The first community PaaS in China
• Built on SJTU NIC OpenStack-based IaaS
• Based on MoPaaS
 SJTU PaaS Is Used as a Platform for
• Research
• Teaching
• Innovation and Entrepreneurship
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Contact Us
 Prof. Yaohui Jin:
• Deputy Director, SJTU NIC
• jinyh@sjtu.edu.cn
• +86-139-1848-5071
 Dr. Wei-Min Lu:
• CEO, Anchora/CEO
• wmlu@anchora.me
• +1-408-658-8166
• +86-186-2623-3286
6/19/2014

15. © 2014

16. FOUR LEVELS OF HA IN CLOUD FOUNDRY
Cornelia Davis  @cdavisafc  cdavis@gopivotal.com

17. I work on a PaaS…
“For us, PaaS is a set of services aimed at
developers that helps them develop and test apps
without having to worry about the underlying
infrastructure. Developers don't want to have to
worry about provisioning the servers, storage and
backup associated with developing and launching
an app.”
[1] http://www.javaworld.com/article/2078801/java-app-dev/forrester--paas-makes-developers-happy.html
[2] http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/paas-primer-what-platform-service-and-why-does-it-matter-212696

18. I work on a PaaS…
“For us, PaaS is a set of services aimed at
developers that helps them develop and test apps
without having to worry about the underlying
infrastructure. Developers don't want to have to
worry about provisioning the servers, storage and
backup associated with developing and launching
an app.”
[1] http://www.javaworld.com/article/2078801/java-app-dev/forrester--paas-makes-developers-happy.html
[2] http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/paas-primer-what-platform-service-and-why-does-it-matter-212696

19. Application Instances and Availability Zones
Router
DEA
DEA
DEA
Cloud Foundry
Elastic Runtime
DEA
DEA
DEA
Zone 1 Zone 2
App Ops

20. Application Instances and Availability Zones
Router
DEA
DEA
DEA
Cloud Foundry
Elastic Runtime
DEA
DEA
DEA
Zone 1 Zone 2 Application instances are
evenly distributed over
two availability zones.
App Ops

21. Application Instances and Availability Zones
Router
DEA
DEA
DEA
Cloud Foundry
Elastic Runtime
DEA
DEA
DEA
Zone 1 Zone 2 Application instances are
evenly distributed over
two availability zones.
Loosing an AZ keeps
instances running and
available.
App Ops

22. Router
Failed Application Instances Replaced
Blobstore
Cloud
Controller
Health Manager
Messaging
(NATS)
DEA DEA DEA
App Ops
Cloud Foundry
Elastic Runtime

23. Router
Failed Application Instances Replaced
Blobstore
Cloud
Controller
Health Manager
Actual State
Messaging
(NATS)
DEA DEA DEA
App Ops
Cloud Foundry
Elastic Runtime

24. Router
Failed Application Instances Replaced
Blobstore
Cloud
Controller
Health Manager
Actual StateDesired State
Messaging
(NATS)
DEA DEA DEA
App Ops
Cloud Foundry
Elastic Runtime

25. Router
Failed Application Instances Replaced
Blobstore
Cloud
Controller
Health Manager
Actual StateDesired State
Messaging
(NATS)
DEA DEA DEA
App Ops
Cloud Foundry
Elastic Runtime

26. Router
Failed Application Instances Replaced
Blobstore
Cloud
Controller
Health Manager
Actual StateDesired State
Messaging
(NATS)
DEA DEA DEA
App Ops
Cloud Foundry
Elastic Runtime

27. Message Bus
ERS Processes are Monitored
IaaSCloud Foundry BOSH
Health Monitor
Health Manager
DEA
Cloud Controller
Responders:
pager
email
monitoring
…
PaaS Ops

28. Message Bus
ERS Processes are Monitored
IaaSCloud Foundry BOSH
Health Monitor
Health Manager
DEA
Cloud Controller
Responders:
pager
email
monitoring
…
PaaS Ops

29. Message Bus
ERS Processes are Monitored
IaaSCloud Foundry BOSH
Health Monitor
Health Manager
DEA
Cloud Controller
Responders:
pager
email
monitoring
…
PaaS Ops

30. Message Bus
VMs are Monitored
IaaS
Health Monitor
Health Manager
Cloud Controller
DEA
Responders:
pager
email
monitoring
resurrector
…
BOSH Director
Actual State
DEA
PaaS Ops
Cloud Foundry BOSH

31. Message Bus
VMs are Monitored
IaaS
Health Monitor
Health Manager
Cloud Controller
DEA
Responders:
pager
email
monitoring
resurrector
…
BOSH Director
Actual State
DEA
PaaS Ops
Cloud Foundry BOSH
Desired State

32. Message Bus
VMs are Monitored
IaaS
Health Monitor
Health Manager
Cloud Controller
DEA
Responders:
pager
email
monitoring
resurrector
…
BOSH Director
Actual StateDesired State
PaaS Ops
Cloud Foundry BOSH

33. Message Bus
VMs are Monitored
IaaS
Health Monitor
Health Manager
Cloud Controller
Responders:
pager
email
monitoring
resurrector
…
BOSH Director
(CPI)
Actual StateDesired State
DEA
PaaS Ops
Cloud Foundry BOSH

34. Four levels of HA in PCF
Elastic Runtime (ERS):
Distribution across availability zones
Application health management and recovery
BOSH (cluster management):
Process monitoring, recovery and alerting
Virtual machine health monitoring, recovery
and alerting