What’s in a cloud platform? Turns out, often several clouds! Companies automate operations in a cloud by treating all components as commodities. However, at enterprise- scale, different business requirements dictate deploying multiple clouds including: - Hybrid infrastructures and multiple cloud providers - Compliance with country privacy laws and different security standards - Specialization requests The most advanced Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) customers engineer their entire cloud platform, including their multitude of PCF instances, as a product. They create pervasive automation, treat their infrastructure as code, and continuously test and update their platform with delivery pipelines. In this webinar we’ll discuss how companies are scaling operations of their multi-cloud platforms with Pivotal Cloud Foundry. We’ll cover: - Why enterprises deploy multiple clouds - What operational challenges this causes - How PCF customers are applying DevOps techniques and tools to platform automation - An idealized tool stack for a engineering a multi-cloud platform at scale - How to improve your platform engineering We thank you in advance for joining us. The Pivotal Team Presenter : Greg Chase, James Ma, Caleb Washburn, Pivotal

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Webinar
October 2017
How to Scale Operations for
a Multi-Cloud Platform using
PCF

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Agenda
■ Why deploy multiple clouds?
■ What typically makes up a customer’s
“cloud platform”?
■ What operational challenges do
customers face in running a multi-cloud
platform?
■ How can operators manage multi-cloud
platforms in an agile way?
■ How can customers improve their
platform engineering practice?

3. Why deploy multiple clouds?
Multi-cloud Operations and PCF

4. What typically makes up a
customer’s “cloud platform”?
Multi-cloud Operations and PCF

5. What operational challenges
do customers face in running a
multi-cloud platform?
Multi-cloud Operations and PCF

6. How can operators manage
multi-cloud platforms in an
“agile” way?
Multi-cloud Operations and PCF

7. Platform Engineers are Applying Devops Approaches
Treat Your Platform as a Software Product
● Infrastructure as code - source control your configuration and automation scripts
● Automate everything
● Pair between engineers
● Practice pipelining
● Continuous delivery of of updates
● Test/Validate your platform

8. How can customers improve
their platform engineering
practice?
Multi-cloud Operations and PCF

9. What components are people
using to automate their multi-
cloud platform?
Multi-cloud Operations and PCF

10. Designed for agile teams practicing test-driven development & continuous delivery
Concourse Is An Open Source CI/CD System
Build with dependable results:
locally, any cloud, any system
Release with high velocity:
automate entire test & release
process
Deliver like cloud natives:
Add a “release to production”
pipeline

11. Developer Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery & Platform Automation
Two Use Cases for Concourse for PCF
Open source Concourse
Used in projects such as with
Spring Cloud Pipelines
Pivotal Labs engagements App Transformation Dojos
Application CI/CD:
Apps
Apps
App
PCF Multi-cloud Platform automation
Platform Dojos
+
PCF Pipelines

12. Example PCF Pipelines
Load
Infrastructure
Plan
Configure
BOSH
Director
Deploy
BOSH
Director
Apply
Changes
Upload
Elastic
Runtime
Create
IaaS
Infrastructure
Poll for new
service
versions
Upload tile
& stemcell
Stage Tile
Deploy
Update Service
Deploy
Elastic
Runtime
Cleanup

13. Git repository
Automated Upgrade of a PCF Environment
1
Concourse
PCF
Environment
Internal Network
Internet
Environment
params
Pipeline
scripts and
tools
Pivotal Network
Container images
(Docker Hub)
BoM, scripts
Releases
Upgrade

14. PCF
EnvironmentPCF
Environment
Git repo
Versioned Bill of Materials for PCF Environments
1
Concourse
PCF
Environment
Environment params
…
Pipeline scripts and tools
BoM
Upgrade
PRD1.yml
OpsMgr: 1.10.1
ERT: 1.10.1
MySQL: 1.8.2
Rabbit: 1.7
DEV1.yml
OpsMgr: 1.10.2
ERT: 1.10.2
MySQL: 1.8.2
Rabbit: 1.7
DEV2.yml
OpsMgr: 1.10.2
ERT: 1.10.2
MySQL: 1.8.2
Rabbit: 1.7
PRD2.yml
OpsMgr: 1.10.1
ERT: 1.10.1
MySQL: 1.8.2
Rabbit: 1.7
Update (git)
Platform
Operation
Engineers
-

15. PCF
EnvironmentPCF
Environment
Git repo
Orgs, Spaces and Quotas and ASGs Management
Concourse
PCF
Environment
Environment
params
Pipeline
scripts and
tools
Config,
LDAP group
mappings to
orgs/spaces,
Scripts,
CF-MGMT
Orgs,
Spaces,
Quotas,
ASG rules
Set Orgs,
Spaces,
Quotas,
ASG rules.
Sync LDAP
groups
membership
with orgs &
spaces
membership
* ASG = Application Security Groups
AD / LDAP
LDAP groups
info

16. Git repo
Buildpack upgrade pipelines
Concourse
PCF
Environment
Java_current: 1.8.0
Java_candidate: 1.8.2
Java: 1.8.3 (system)
Environment
params:
...
Java_current:
1.8.0
Java_candidate:
1.8.2
Pipeline scripts
and tools
Scripts,
BoM
Deploy and/or
promote
Buildpacks

17. PCF
EnvironmentPCF
Environment
Git repo
Automated Nightly Backup of PCF Environments
Concourse
PCF
Environment
Environment
params
Pipeline
scripts and
tools
Scripts,
BBR 1) Backup
Internal S3
File repository
2) Store files

18. Where to get more information
Multi-cloud Operations and PCF

19. Where to Get More Information
About Concourse
● Concourse page at Pivotal.io
About PCF Pipelines
● PCF Pipelines Github
White paper:
● Multi-Site Pivotal Cloud Foundry: Deployment Topology Patterns and Practices

20. Transforming How The World Builds Software
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