JBoss Developer Webinar Series: BoxGrinder & SteamCannon.

1. JBoss. Cloud.
Bob McWhirter
Technical Architect
JBoss Fellow
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2. Who am I?
• Joined JBoss in 2007
• Co-founder of Drools
• Bob the Despot of the Codehaus
• aka "BMW"
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3. Agenda
• Define some terminology
• BoxGrinder to create Virtual Machines
• SteamCannon to create a PaaS
• Demos
• Deltacloud
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4. Terminology
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5. IaaS
• Infrastructure as a service.
• Virtual hardware.
• Pretty barren.
• Amazon EC2, Rackspace Cloud
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6. PaaS
• Platform as a Service.
• Higher-order substrate for
applications.
• Google App Engine, Heroku
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7. Image
• A snapshot/template for a server.
• Archetypical VM copied and launched.
• AMI, .vmx, .raw
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8. Instance
• A server launched from an image.
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9. 1. IaaS
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10. Infrastructure
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Virtual servers and networks, available
and priced on a per-usage basis.

11. Undifferentiated
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12. Slightly Differentiated
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/pagedooley/1092862034/

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/equitus/3435154099/

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/booleansplit/2979169728/

16. But serves no
particular purpose...
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17. 2. PaaS
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18. Platform gives
purpose...
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19. Platform
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A substrate upon which to
deploy your applications.
The contract your
application targets.

20. Application
A collection of components, services
and data solving some problem.
May be Java, Ruby, PHP, Perl, C, or
a mixture.
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21. Don't get hung up
on .wars and .ears.
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22. Platforms
customize the
infrastructure
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23. With IaaS, a server is
the unit of deployment
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24. Platforms are servers
operating in collusion
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Load Balancer
App Server
Database
App ServerApp Server

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How do we create
these colluding
server units?

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Simple
Appliance
Description
VMware
EC2 S3 AMI
EC2 EBS AMI
KVM

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name: appserver
version: 1
release: 5
summary: SteamCannon back-end appliance
hardware:
memory: 2048
partitions:
"/":
size: 4
appliances:
- _base
packages:
includes:
- jboss-as6
- jboss-as6-cloud-profiles
- torquebox-jruby
- torquebox-deployers
- torquebox-cloud-profiles-deployers
post:
base:
- "echo -e 'n - JBossAS' >> /etc/sysconfig/steamcannon-agent"

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name: appserver
version: 1
release: 5
summary: SteamCannon back-end appliance
hardware:
memory: 2048
partitions:
"/":
size: 4
appliances:
- _base
packages:
includes:
- jboss-as6
- jboss-as6-cloud-profiles
- torquebox-jruby
- torquebox-deployers
- torquebox-cloud-profiles-deployers
post:
base:
- "echo -e 'n - JBossAS' >> /etc/sysconfig/steamcannon-agent"

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name: appserver
version: 1
release: 5
summary: SteamCannon back-end appliance
hardware:
memory: 2048
partitions:
"/":
size: 4
appliances:
- _base
packages:
includes:
- jboss-as6
- jboss-as6-cloud-profiles
- torquebox-jruby
- torquebox-deployers
- torquebox-cloud-profiles-deployers
post:
base:
- "echo -e 'n - JBossAS' >> /etc/sysconfig/steamcannon-agent"

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name: appserver
version: 1
release: 5
summary: SteamCannon back-end appliance
hardware:
memory: 2048
partitions:
"/":
size: 4
appliances:
- _base
packages:
includes:
- jboss-as6
- jboss-as6-cloud-profiles
- torquebox-jruby
- torquebox-deployers
- torquebox-cloud-profiles-deployers
post:
base:
- "echo -e 'n - JBossAS' >> /etc/sysconfig/steamcannon-agent"

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name: appserver
version: 1
release: 5
summary: SteamCannon back-end appliance
hardware:
memory: 2048
partitions:
"/":
size: 4
appliances:
- _base
packages:
includes:
- jboss-as6
- jboss-as6-cloud-profiles
- torquebox-jruby
- torquebox-deployers
- torquebox-cloud-profiles-deployers
post:
base:
- "echo -e 'n - JBossAS' >> /etc/sysconfig/steamcannon-agent"

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$ boxgrinder-build -W
appserver.appl
-p ec2 -d ami

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Time passes...

36. ami-XXXXXX
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37. A few times
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• Front-end (httpd, mod_cluster)
• Appserver (JBoss AS6 + TorqueBox)
• Database (PostgresSQL)
• All-in-one (JBoss AS6 + PostgresSQL)

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/deltamike/112665708/

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/resedabear/4739589400/

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SteamCannon

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/sheilascarborough/3532118420/

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Environment
Platform Image
Instance
1..* 1..*
1..*
based on based on

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Platforms
• JBoss 2-Tier
• JBoss 3-Tier
• Developer Standalone

44. Environments
• My Sandbox
• My Other Sandbox
• Staging
• QA
• Production
• Steven
• Experimental
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45. Demo!
(Photo Album)
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46. 1. SteamCannon
launches a node.
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47. 2. It deploys an
application to the
node.
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48. Demo!
(Rails 3, clustered, *-ds.xml)
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49. 1. SteamCannon
launches several
nodes.
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50. 2. SteamCannon
orchestrates weaving
them together.
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51. 3. SteamCannon
deploys artifacts to
the correct services.
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52. Bottom line...
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• BoxGrinder allows us to bake "best
practices" into server images
• SteamCannon adds trusted remote hands
to do the logistics of clustering &
configuration
• Click and deploy, even complex, multi-
artifact applications

53. Deltacloud
Oh yeah, SteamCannon talks
to the IaaS provider using the
Deltacloud API.
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54. Demo!
(Deltacloud API)
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55. Future directions
• Additional platforms, including other data
and service platforms
• Infinispan (Data grid)
• HornetQ (Messaging fabric)
• Improved UI/UX/Workflows
• Higher-order "applications"
• Movement between environments
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56. Try it!
•http://boxgrinder.org/
•http://steamcannon.org/
• Download the VMware image
• Boot the AMI
• http://steamcannon.org/try/
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57. Q&A
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