Cloudify is software that automates deploying, managing, and scaling applications on cloud environments. It has two main products: Cloudify for application lifecycle management on any cloud, and XAP for extreme data processing. Cloudify uses recipes to deploy applications across virtual machines and manages monitoring, healing, and scaling. It aims to reduce complexity, costs, and lock-in risks for migrating enterprise applications to private or public clouds like OpenStack. Cloudify has over 400 customers worldwide across industries like financial services, telecom, and healthcare.

1. Introduction to
Cloudify
Barak Merimovich
Cloudify Team Leader
@barakmer

2. GigaSpaces Business Card
Description
GigaSpaces provides software middleware for Deployment, Management
and Scaling of Mission-Critical applications on cloud environments
Offices
Offices in New York, San Jose, London. R&D center in Herzliya
Products
Two main product lines:
-
-
Customers
Cloudify - designed to provide organizations with application lifecycle
automation (deployment, configuration management, high-availability,
fail-over, scaling, monitoring) on any cloud environment
XAP - designed to handle extreme data processing
Over 400 Tier 1 enterprises and ISV’s worldwide
Main verticals: Financial Services, Telco, eCommerce, Healthcare

3. 400+ customers worldwide
Leverage GigaSpaces technology

4. Enterprises are moving to Cloud
26%
In 2 years
BUT..
So far only
44%
16.B$
in 5 years
in Saving
5%
able to migrate
successfully

5. Current Approaches
for Migrating Apps to the Cloud

6. Migrating Apps – IaaS First

7. Migrating Apps – IaaS First
Credit: sdarchitect
It’s the apps, stupid!

8. Migrating Apps – PaaS
Good for new, relatively simple apps

9. Migrating Apps – CM Tools
Setup Only, but apps are a living organism!

10. Amazon Stack for App Deployment
Cloudify provide the equivalent of
Amazon OpsWork on OpenStack

11. Cloudify’s Mission Statement
• Deploy, Manage and Scale
Enterprise Grade Applications
on OpenStack Clouds, with no
code changes
– Using well known tools and best practices
– Allow users to choose what fits best for them
– Allow users to leverage existing assets

12. Migrating apps – the Cloudify way…
1
Upload your recipe
2
Cloudify creates VMs & installs agents
3
Agents install and manage your app
4
Cloudify automates monitoring, healing
and scaling

13. Reducing Complexity
Typical Enterprise / Big Data System
Consistent Management
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14. Reducing Infrastructure Costs
Typical Enterprise / Big Data System
Consistent Management
Dev
Testing
QA
Prod
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15. Reducing Lock-In Risks
Cloud Driver
Existing Data Center
OpenStack Cloud

16. Geared for Mission Critical Apps
• Critical Apps are Data
Centric
• Moving data is hard
• Cloudify has built-in data
services:
– Replication over the WAN
– Elastic caching
– Built in support for big data

17. Built in support for Big Data stacks
Real Time
Relational DB
Clusters
NoSQL Clusters
Hadoop
Storm
MySQL
MongoDB
Hadoop
GigaSpaces XAP
PostgreSQL
Cassandra
ZooKeeper
Couchbase
ElasticSearch

18. 100s More of Ready-Made Recipes
Leverage Puppet Templates

19. One Click Deployment
• Deploying the most
complex apps in one click
• Smooth transition from
trial to real production
• Patent pending
technology
• Let’s see it!

20. Cloudify Recipe Domain Model
Application:
Describes the
application tiers and
their dependencies
Application
Pod
DB
Service:
Describe an individual tier
e.g. Tomcat, Node.js, Ruby, NoSQL
Web
Server
LB

21. Application Recipe
application {
name="petclinic"
service {
name = "mongod"
}
service {
name = "mongoConfig"
}
service {
name = "apacheLB"
}
service {
name = "mongos"
dependsOn = ["mongoConfig", "mongod"]
}
}
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22. Service Recipe: Lifecycle
service {
name "mysql"
icon "mysql.png"
type "DATABASE"
...
}
lifecycle{
install "mysql_install.groovy"
start "mysql_start.groovy"
startDetectionTimeoutSecs 900
startDetection "mysql_startDetection.groovy"
stopDetection {
!ServiceUtils.isPortOccupied(jdbcPort)
}
preStop ([
"Win.*":"killAllMysql.bat",
"Linux.*":"mysql_stop.groovy"
])
shutdown ([
"Linux.*":"mysql_uninstall.groovy"
])
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23. Service Recipe: Scaling Rules
scalingRules ([
scalingRule {
serviceStatistics {
metric "Total Requests Count"
statistics
Statistics.maximumThroughput
movingTimeRangeInSeconds 20
}
highThreshold {
value 1
instancesIncrease 1
}
lowThreshold {
value 0.2
instancesDecrease 1
}
}
])
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24. Service Recipe: Custom Metrics
monitors {
def ctxPath = ("default" ==
context.applicationName)?"":"${context.applicationName}“
def metricNamesToMBeansNames = [
"Current Http Threads Busy": ["Catalina:type=ThreadPool,name="http-bio${currHttpPort}"", "currentThreadsBusy"],
"Current Http Thread Count": ["Catalina:type=ThreadPool,name="http-bio${currHttpPort}"", "currentThreadCount"],
return getJmxMetrics("127.0.0.1",currJmxPort,metricNamesToMBeansNames)
}
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25. Service Recipe: Machine Templates
compute {
template "SMALL_LINUX"
}
SMALL_LINUX : template{
imageId "1234"
machineMemoryMB 3200
hardwareId "103"
remoteDirectory "/root/gs-files"
localDirectory "upload"
keyFile "gigaPGHP.pem"
options ([
"openstack.securityGroup" : "default",
"openstack.keyPair" : "gigaPGHP"
])
privileged true
}
SMALL_LINUX : template
imageId "us-east-1/ami-76f0061f“
remoteDirectory "/home/ec2-user/gs-files“
machineMemoryMB 1600
hardwareId "m1.small"
locationId "us-east-1"
localDirectory "upload"
keyFile "myKeyFile.pem"
options ([
"securityGroups" : ["default"]as
String[],
"keyPair" : "myKeyFile"
])
overrides (["jclouds.ec2.ami-query":"",
"jclouds.ec2.cc-ami-query":""])
privileged true
}
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26. Summary
Mission
Critical
• Manage data, not just processes
• Built-in multi-site support
• Designed for multi-tier complex apps
Proven
• Field-proven
• Running the most complex finance, telco’s and Big-Data apps
Open
• Open Source
• Open standard (OpenStack)
• Open Cloud
Easy
• One click deployment
• Hassle-free online experience
• Smooth transition from trial to production

27. Thank You!