Download animated version from http://bit.ly/AsgardOpenHouseSlides Presented Feb 6, 2013 at the first @NetflixOSS open house in Los Gatos, CA, this deck gives an overview of Asgard, an open source application deployment and cloud management console for Amazon Web Services (AWS). Follow http://twitter.com/AsgardOSS

1. Joe Sondow, Cloud Interface Tools
@AsgardOSS @joesondow

2. Slides online
http://slideshare.net/joesondow
@AsgardOSS @joesondow

3. Asgard
Screen shots

4. Asgard
Application list

5. Asgard
Auto Scaling Group list

6. Asgard
Cluster deployment, ready for fast rollback

7. Asgard

8. Asgard
Application deployment

9. Asgard
Application deployment
Cloud management

10. Asgard
Application deployment
Cloud management
Grails

11. Asgard
Application deployment
Cloud management
Grails
Started 2010

12. Asgard
Application deployment
Cloud management
Grails
Started 2010
Open source 2012

13. Asgard
Application deployment
Cloud management
Grails
Started 2010
Open source 2012
100’s of Jira tickets

14. Asgard
Application deployment
Cloud management
Grails
Started 2010
Open source 2012
100’s of Jira tickets
We’re hiring

15. User forum
https://groups.google.com/group/AsgardUsers

16. Source code and download
https://github.com/Netflix/asgard

17. Joe Sondow Clay McCoy Jason Gritman
@joesondow @claymccoy @jgritman
Asgard Team
Feb 2013

18. Freedom and Responsibility

19. Freedom and Responsibility
Corporate culture and the Cloud

20. Freedom and Responsibility

21. Freedom and Responsibility
http://bit.ly/NetflixCulture

22. Freedom and Responsibility
http://bit.ly/NetflixCulture
Cloud SOA

23. Freedom and Responsibility
http://bit.ly/NetflixCulture
Cloud SOA
100’s of services

24. Freedom and Responsibility
http://bit.ly/NetflixCulture
Cloud SOA
100’s of services
Small teams

25. Freedom and Responsibility
http://bit.ly/NetflixCulture
Cloud SOA
100’s of services
Small teams
Independent releases

26. Freedom and Responsibility
http://bit.ly/NetflixCulture
Cloud SOA
100’s of services
Small teams
Independent releases
Controlled chaos

27. Cloud deployment model

28. Cloud deployment model
Applications and Clusters

29. Cloud deployment model

30. Cloud deployment model
Auto Scaling
Group

31. Cloud deployment model
Auto Scaling
Group
Launch
Configuration

32. Cloud deployment model
Elastic Load
Balancer
Auto Scaling
Group
Launch
Configuration

33. Cloud deployment model
Elastic Load
Balancer
Auto Scaling
Group
Launch
Configuration
Amazon Machine
Image

34. Cloud deployment model
Elastic Load
Balancer
Auto Scaling
Group
Security
Group
Launch
Configuration
Amazon Machine
Image

35. Cloud deployment model
Elastic Load
Balancer
Auto Scaling
Group
Security
Instances
Group
Launch
Configuration
Amazon Machine
Image

36. Cloud deployment model
Elastic Load
Balancer
Auto Scaling
Group
Security
Instances
Group
Launch
Configuration
Amazon Machine
Image

37. Cloud deployment model
Elastic Load
Balancer
Auto Scaling
Group
Security
Instances
Group
Launch
Configuration
Amazon Machine
Image

38. Cloud deployment model
Elastic Load
Balancer
Auto Scaling
Group
Security
Instances
Group
Launch
Configuration
Amazon Machine
Image

39. Cloud deployment model

40. Cloud deployment model
Search

41. Cloud deployment model
Sign Up
Streaming Starts
Ratings
Autocomplete API
Search

42. Cloud deployment model
Sign Up
Streaming Starts
Ratings
Application
Application
Application
Autocomplete API
Search
Application
Application
Application

43. Inventing the Application
Problem:
Application is not an Amazon concept
Solution:
Create an Application domain in SimpleDB
Enforce naming conventions on Amazon objects

44. Fast Rollback

45. Fast Rollback
Optimism causes outages

46. Fast Rollback
Optimism causes outages
Production traffic is unique

47. Fast Rollback
Optimism causes outages
Production traffic is unique
Keep old version running

48. Fast Rollback
Optimism causes outages
Production traffic is unique
Keep old version running
Switch traffic to new version

49. Fast Rollback
Optimism causes outages
Production traffic is unique
Keep old version running
Switch traffic to new version
Monitor results

50. Fast Rollback
Optimism causes outages
Production traffic is unique
Keep old version running
Switch traffic to new version
Monitor results
Revert traffic quickly

51. Fast Rollback

52. Fast Rollback
api-frontend
api-usprod-v007

53. Fast Rollback
api-frontend
api-usprod-v007 api-usprod-v008

54. Fast Rollback
api-frontend
api-usprod-v007 api-usprod-v008

55. Fast Rollback
api-frontend
api-usprod-v007 api-usprod-v008

56. Fast Rollback
api-frontend
api-usprod-v007 api-usprod-v008

57. Fast Rollback
api-frontend
api-usprod-v007

58. Inventing the Cluster
Problem:
Two ASGs with one function but different names
Solution:
Append version number in reserved format
Parse ASG name to determine long-term “cluster”

59. Inventing the Cluster
Instead of keeping a database in sync, use naming
conventions to store the source in truth in Amazon’s API
api Application
api-usprod Cluster
api-usprod-v007 Auto Scaling Group
api-usprod-v008 Auto Scaling Group

60. Visual Language for the Cloud

61. Visual Language for the Cloud
Tango open source icons

62. Visual Language for the Cloud

63. Visual Language for the Cloud
AWS is intimidating

64. Visual Language for the Cloud
AWS is intimidating
Many object types

65. Visual Language for the Cloud
AWS is intimidating
Many object types
Help newbie users

66. Visual Language for the Cloud
AWS is intimidating
Many object types
Help newbie users
Reduce cognitive load

67. Visual Language for the Cloud
AWS is intimidating
Many object types
Help newbie users
Reduce cognitive load
Make it easy

68. Visual Language for the Cloud
AWS is intimidating
Many object types
Help newbie users
Reduce cognitive load
Make it easy
Avoid surprises

69. Visual Language for the Cloud

70. Visual Language for the Cloud
At a glance, these nav bar items look alike.

71. Visual Language for the Cloud
At a glance, these nav bar items look alike.

72. Visual Language for the Cloud

73. Visual Language for the Cloud
Some screens have multiple action
buttons that look too similar.

74. Visual Language for the Cloud
Some screens have multiple action
buttons that look too similar.

75. Visual Language for the Cloud

76. Visual Language for the Cloud
Because of naming conventions,
these links look alike.

77. Visual Language for the Cloud
Because of naming conventions,
these links look alike.

78. Visual Language for the Cloud

79. Visual Language for the Cloud
The indicators for the
current AWS region are
too easy to miss.

80. Visual Language for the Cloud
The indicators for the
current AWS region are
too easy to miss.

81. Visual Language for the Cloud
These availability zones
are important to
recognize at a glance
but their names look
similar, and they appear
on many screens.

82. Visual Language for the Cloud
These availability zones
are important to
recognize at a glance
but their names look
similar, and they appear
on many screens.

83. Visual Language for the Cloud

84. Tango Icons

85. Tango Icons
http://tango.freedesktop.org/

86. Tango Icons
http://tango.freedesktop.org/
http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Icon_Theme_Guidelines

87. Tango Icons
http://tango.freedesktop.org/
http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Icon_Theme_Guidelines
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tango_icons

88. Tango Icons
http://tango.freedesktop.org/
http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Icon_Theme_Guidelines
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tango_icons
Used by Firefox, Jenkins, GIMP, OpenOffice, VMWare

89. REST API in Grails

90. REST API in Grails
Enable external mashups with cloud data

91. REST API in Grails

92. REST API in Grails

93. REST API in Grails

94. REST API in Grails

95. REST API in Grails

96. REST API in Grails

97. REST API in Grails

98. REST API in Grails

99. REST API in Grails

100. REST API in Grails
ApplicationController.groovy

101. @joesondow
slideshare.net/joesondow
Thank you linkedin.com/in/joesondow
Questions?
@AsgardOSS
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