Cloudify is software that automates deploying, managing, and scaling applications on cloud environments. It has two main products: Cloudify for application lifecycle management on any cloud, and XAP for extreme data processing. Cloudify uses recipes to deploy applications across virtual machines and manages monitoring, healing, and scaling. It aims to reduce complexity, costs, and lock-in risks for migrating enterprise applications to private or public clouds like OpenStack. Cloudify has over 400 customers worldwide across industries like financial services, telecom, and healthcare.
2. GigaSpaces Business Card
Description
GigaSpaces provides software middleware for Deployment, Management
and Scaling of Mission-Critical applications on cloud environments
Offices
Offices in New York, San Jose, London. R&D center in Herzliya
Products
Two main product lines:
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Customers
Cloudify - designed to provide organizations with application lifecycle
automation (deployment, configuration management, high-availability,
fail-over, scaling, monitoring) on any cloud environment
XAP - designed to handle extreme data processing
Over 400 Tier 1 enterprises and ISV’s worldwide
Main verticals: Financial Services, Telco, eCommerce, Healthcare
9. Migrating Apps – CM Tools
Setup Only, but apps are a living organism!
10. Amazon Stack for App Deployment
Cloudify provide the equivalent of
Amazon OpsWork on OpenStack
11. Cloudify’s Mission Statement
• Deploy, Manage and Scale
Enterprise Grade Applications
on OpenStack Clouds, with no
code changes
– Using well known tools and best practices
– Allow users to choose what fits best for them
– Allow users to leverage existing assets
12. Migrating apps – the Cloudify way…
1
Upload your recipe
2
Cloudify creates VMs & installs agents
3
Agents install and manage your app
4
Cloudify automates monitoring, healing
and scaling
16. Geared for Mission Critical Apps
• Critical Apps are Data
Centric
• Moving data is hard
• Cloudify has built-in data
services:
– Replication over the WAN
– Elastic caching
– Built in support for big data
17. Built in support for Big Data stacks
Real Time
Relational DB
Clusters
NoSQL Clusters
Hadoop
Storm
MySQL
MongoDB
Hadoop
GigaSpaces XAP
PostgreSQL
Cassandra
ZooKeeper
Couchbase
ElasticSearch
18. 100s More of Ready-Made Recipes
Leverage Puppet Templates
19. One Click Deployment
• Deploying the most
complex apps in one click
• Smooth transition from
trial to real production
• Patent pending
technology
• Let’s see it!
20. Cloudify Recipe Domain Model
Application:
Describes the
application tiers and
their dependencies
Application
Pod
DB
Service:
Describe an individual tier
e.g. Tomcat, Node.js, Ruby, NoSQL
Web
Server
LB
21. Application Recipe
application {
name="petclinic"
service {
name = "mongod"
}
service {
name = "mongoConfig"
}
service {
name = "apacheLB"
}
service {
name = "mongos"
dependsOn = ["mongoConfig", "mongod"]
}
}
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22. Service Recipe: Lifecycle
service {
name "mysql"
icon "mysql.png"
type "DATABASE"
...
}
lifecycle{
install "mysql_install.groovy"
start "mysql_start.groovy"
startDetectionTimeoutSecs 900
startDetection "mysql_startDetection.groovy"
stopDetection {
!ServiceUtils.isPortOccupied(jdbcPort)
}
preStop ([
"Win.*":"killAllMysql.bat",
"Linux.*":"mysql_stop.groovy"
])
shutdown ([
"Linux.*":"mysql_uninstall.groovy"
])
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23. Service Recipe: Scaling Rules
scalingRules ([
scalingRule {
serviceStatistics {
metric "Total Requests Count"
statistics
Statistics.maximumThroughput
movingTimeRangeInSeconds 20
}
highThreshold {
value 1
instancesIncrease 1
}
lowThreshold {
value 0.2
instancesDecrease 1
}
}
])
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26. Summary
Mission
Critical
• Manage data, not just processes
• Built-in multi-site support
• Designed for multi-tier complex apps
Proven
• Field-proven
• Running the most complex finance, telco’s and Big-Data apps
Open
• Open Source
• Open standard (OpenStack)
• Open Cloud
Easy
• One click deployment
• Hassle-free online experience
• Smooth transition from trial to production
Research conducted by HP found that the majority of businesses in the EMEA region are planning to move their mission-critical apps to the cloud. Of the 940 respondents, 80 percent revealed plans to move mission-critical apps at some point over the next two to five years.A more recent survey, by research firm MeriTalk and sponsored by VMware and EMC (NYSE:EMC), showed that one-third of respondents say they plan to move some mission-critical applications to the cloud in the next year. Within two years, the IT managers said they will move 26 percent of their mission-critical apps to the cloud, and in five years, they expect 44 percent of their mission-critical apps to run in the cloud.
Even AWS used Chef for this…
Wrap all your system elements into easy-to-use recipes, providing you with consistent, automated management of your complex multitier app
Creates an abstraction between your enterprise system recipe/blueprint and the target environment. This means you can take the same blueprint and simply point it at different environments without making any changes to your application.