Apache Tomcat, technology recap, challenges and opportunities with tFactory: open source Project to manage Apache Tomcat instances over a network easily.

1. Gestión de infraestructura
Tomcat/TomEE con tFactory
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4. Agenda
● Apache Tomcat
○ Usage
○ Technology
○ Commercial
○ DevOps
● tFactory
○ Common usage scenarios
○ Features
○ Architecture
○ Demo
● QA

5. Apache Tomcat (Usage)
Eclipse community survey 2014
http://www.slideshare.net/IanSkerrett/eclipse-community-survey-2014
Java Tools and Technologies Landscape for 2014
http://www.slideshare.net/IanSkerrett/eclipse-community-survey-2014

6. Apache Tomcat (Usage)
Jlastic Software Stacks Market Share: 2nd Quarter of 2015
http://blog.jelastic.com/2015/08/13/software-stacks-market-share-second-quarter-
of-2015/
Most popular Java EE containers: 2015 edition
https://plumbr.eu/blog/java/most-popular-java-ee-containers-2015-edition

7. Apache Tomcat (Technology)
1999 2003 2007 2011 2014
3.x 5.x 6.x 7.x 8.x
Today
Tomcat 8.0.30
TomEE 1.7.3

8. Apache Tomcat (Commercial)
● Monitoring
○ Profiling tools
○ JVM Communication (JMX)
○ Internal components
● Management
○ Configurations
○ Deployments
○ Security
○ Data Sources
○ Multi server environment

9. Apache Tomcat (DevOps)
● “Kind of Management”
○ Configurations
○ Deployments
○ Security
○ Data Sources
○ Multi server environment
https://hub.openshift.com/quickstarts/96-tomcat-7-
jboss-ews-2-0

10. tFactory
Open Source Project to manage Apache
Tomcat™ instances over a network easily.
http://tfactory.github.io/
@tFactorySystem

11. tFactory common usage scenario
● Which ports are available in a remote server?
● Which ports does the current instances have
configured on remote server?
● Can you create a new instance in less than 1 minutes
with custom settigns?
● Can you give me a report of all the instances in our
environment with his respective ports configuration
now?

12. tFactory common usage scenario
● Can you create a image template and be distributed
on remote servers in less than 2 minute?
● What are we going to do if operations guys don't
know how to use use Chef, Puppet or other hightech
cool tool that can help to manage Apache Tomcat™
intances?

13. tFactory features
● Add/Remove remote servers.
● Monitor remote t-factory-agent status.
● Register/Deregister instances already created on
remote servers.
● Creation of new instances on remote servers with
auto and manual selection of available ports.
● Instance template catalog capability.
● Monitor changes on configuration (currently server.
xml file) of remote instances.
● Internationalized GUI

14. tFactory architecture
Vm Container
<http(s)>

15. tFactory Demo

16. tFactory Roadmap
● Add Persistences layer (currently all is stored in
memory)
● Authentication and Authorization
● Log4j incorporation
● Configure memory parameters to instances when
they are created from the tFactory server.
● Configure jmx port parameter to instances when
they are created from the tFactory server.
● Datasource managements.
● GUI edition of global configurations.

17. tFactory is Open Source
Open for Contributing
● http://tfactory.github.io/
● https://github.com/tfactory
● @tFactorySystem

18. PREGUNTAS?
César Hernández CesarHernandezGt
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