Cloud providers are constantly adding new services that you can leverage to improve speed to market. Deploying and managing cloud applications means orchestrating these services from your cloud provider along with third parties and internal web services. RightScale’s plugin capabilities make it easy for you to leverage any service and avoid the "least common denominator approach."

1. ORCHESTRATING CLOUD SERVICES
WITH PLUGINS

2. • Ryan O’Leary
• Senior Director, Product, RightScale
• Ryan Geyer
• Cloud Solutions Architect, RightScale
Panelists
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3. So Many Cloud Services
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4. • Use Cases for Plugins
• RightScale Plugins
• Writing a Plugin
• Operating a Plugin (Demo)
Agenda
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5. BACKGROUND
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6. UTILIZATION AGILITY CONTROL OPTIMIZATIONCENTRALIZATION
Enabling the Enterprise IT Journey
Automation
Economics
Ecosystem
Governance
Data Centers
Virtualization
Public & Private Cloud
Broker Cloud Services
Automate Outcomes
TIME
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7. • Simple app/stacks
• Single cloud
• Infrastructure-focused
• Complex workloads
• Micro-services
• Many providers
• Infrastructure combined with PaaS and internal systems
Evolution of Cloud Applications
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8. Managing Complexity Across Providers
Govern
Manage
Value Add Services
• Workload visibility across providers
• Organize and tag
• Cost visibility, reporting, and controls
• Account access controls
• Policy enforcement
• Monitoring & alerts tied to orchestration
• Audit trails
• Automated operational actions
• Offer curated catalogs for self-service
• Automate provisioning across clouds
• Optimize spend across providers
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9. RightScale Platform Plugins
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Public
Cloud Providers
Private Cloud
Platform
Multi-Cloud Integration & Orchestration
RightScale APISaaS
Platform
Your
Cloud
Portfolio
RightScale Cloud Portfolio Management
Self-Service | Cloud Management | Cloud Analytics
Cloud Appliance
for vSphere
Hardware
Cloud Consumers
3rd Party
Self-Service
Portal
RightScale
Self-Service
UI
RightScale
Cloud Analytics
UI
RightScale
Cloud Management
UI
Hypervisors
Cloud Operations Managers
Any Service
Plugins

10. USE CASES FOR
PLUGINS
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11. • Complex applications require several components
• “Non Cloud” resources
• Hardware load balancer pools an VIPs
• DNS Records
• Cloud PaaS offerings
• DBaaS (RDS, Bigtable, SQL Azure)
• Load balancing (ELB, Google CLB, Azure Load Balancer)
• SaaS Tools
• Logging
• Object Storage
• CDN
• Caching
Use Cases for Plugins
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12. Use Cases for Plugins
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Public Clouds

13. Use Cases for Plugins
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Public Clouds Private Clouds

14. Use Cases for Plugins
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Public Clouds Private Clouds
DBaaS

15. Use Cases for Plugins
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Public Clouds Private Clouds
DBaaS
PaaS Load Balancers

16. Use Cases for Plugins
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Public Clouds Private Clouds
DBaaS
PaaS Load Balancers
Hardware Load
Balancers

17. Use Cases for Plugins
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Public Clouds Private Clouds
DBaaS
PaaS Load Balancers
Hardware Load
Balancers
DNS

18. Use Cases for Plugins
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Public Clouds Private Clouds
DBaaS
PaaS Load Balancers
Hardware Load
Balancers
DNS
Logging

19. Use Cases for Plugins
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Public Clouds Private Clouds
DBaaS
PaaS Load Balancers
Hardware Load
Balancers
DNS
Logging
Object Storage

20. Use Cases for Plugins
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Public Clouds Private Clouds
DBaaS
PaaS Load Balancers
Hardware Load
Balancers
DNS
Logging
Object Storage
CDNs

21. Use Cases for Plugins
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Public Clouds Private Clouds
DBaaS
PaaS Load Balancers
Hardware Load
Balancers
DNS
Logging
Object Storage
CDNs
Etc

22. Use Cases for Plugins
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Public Clouds Private Clouds
DBaaS
PaaS Load Balancers
Hardware Load
Balancers
DNS
Logging
Object Storage
CDNs
Etc
Etc

23. Use Cases for Plugins
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Public Clouds Private Clouds
DBaaS
PaaS Load Balancers
Hardware Load
Balancers
DNS
Logging
Object Storage
CDNs
Etc
Etc
Etc

24. Use Cases for Plugins
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Public Clouds Private Clouds
DBaaS
PaaS Load Balancers
Hardware Load
Balancers
DNS
Logging
Object Storage
CDNs
Etc
Etc
Etc
Etc

25. Use Cases for Plugins
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Lifecycle Automation
Speed apps to market with
continuous delivery and DevOps
Self-Service IT
Broker cloud services to
developers and BUs
Governance
Gain visibility and control over all
cloud usage and costs

26. RIGHTSCALE PLUGINS
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27. RightScale Architecture
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Public
Cloud Providers
Private Cloud
Platform
Multi-Cloud Integration & Orchestration
RightScale APISaaS
Platform
Your
Cloud
Portfolio
RightScale Cloud Portfolio Management
Self-Service | Cloud Management | Cloud Analytics
Cloud Appliance
for vSphere
Hardware
Cloud Consumers
3rd Party
Self-Service
Portal
RightScale
Self-Service
UI
RightScale
Cloud Analytics
UI
RightScale
Cloud Management
UI
Hypervisors
Cloud Operations Managers
Any Service
Plugins

28. WRITING A PLUGIN
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29. • The Plugin definition
• Describes the target API endpoint and interface
• Totally generic
• Consists of:
• Parameters
• Endpoints
• Types
• The Service definition
• An instantiation of a plugin
• Unique to a particular tenant with credentials, etc.
Anatomy of a Plugin
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30. • Map custom service API resources to Plugin definitions
Custom Service API Reference
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31. • Totally generic and reusable
• Shared between tenants, departments, and customers
• Parameters for values unique to each instantiation (creds)
Anatomy of a Plugin – Plugin Definition
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32. • Parameters allow customization such as providing credentials
Anatomy of a Plugin – Plugin Definition
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33. • Endpoint describes the target API including default headers
Anatomy of a Plugin – Plugin Definition
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34. • Individual resources are described as types
Anatomy of a Plugin – Plugin Definition
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35. Anatomy of a Plugin – Plugin Definition
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36. • Resources can reference other resources
Anatomy of a Plugin – Plugin Definition
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37. • The behavior of lifecycle actions can be customized
Anatomy of a Plugin – Plugin Definition
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38. • Fairly simple, instantiates the plugin with tenant specific
parameters
• Different authentication options (JWT, OAUTH, Basic, etc)
Anatomy of a Plugin – Service Definition
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39. OPERATING A PLUGIN
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40. • Incorporate any service into application definition templates
• Provide production and dev/test workloads via Self-Service
portal
• Implement flexible governance on top of any API
• Provision, operate, and decommission any service and
application
Plugins in Self-Service
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41. • Defines an entire application stack
• User Input and Output
• Configuration of resources
• Orchestration workflows
• Operational actions
• Permissions
• Published to the Catalog
Cloud Application Template Overview
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42. Multi-Cloud, Multi-Service Orchestration
Cloud Application Template
Cloud Compute
Cloud Storage
Cloud Network
Images
Templates &
Containers
PaaS Services
IaaS+ Services
Web Services
Define
Resources
Control
User Options
Orchestrate Deployment
Enable
Operations
Code
IaaS Resources Extended Services Application Assets
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43. Plugins in CAT – Putting it all together
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44. DEMO
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45. • IT as a Cloud Services Broker
• www.rightscale.com/cloud-broker-white-paper
Q&A
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