WebHack#43 Challenges of Global Infrastructure at Rakuten https://webhack.connpass.com/event/208888/

1. Rakuten Platform
April 21st, 2021
Mitchell Klijnstra
Cloud Platform Department
Rakuten Group, Inc.

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Rakuten, a quick introduction
What services does Rakuten Group offer?

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What scale are we talking here?
Services, availability zones and more
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3000+ services enabling 50+ Rakuten subsidiaries on a
day-to-day basis

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Currently serving 3 major regions devided into
6 smaller availability zones with more coming

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Japan east
Japan west
Europe Central
Europe West
United States West
United States East

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Global self-service cloud
How to offer a buffet style solution
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Problem statement
3 years ago Rakuten
needed a way to give more
power to services to run
their applications easily
and through a self-
service portal
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Problem statement
Each piece of
infrastructure was offered
separately, managed
separately
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So, why a private cloud?
We wanted to make the
inside use of services
as easy as possible for
our technical teams
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So, why a private cloud?
The private cloud is not
just infrastructure
What we built is basically
a Rakuten Ecosystem
Solution as a Cloud
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Vision behind the solution
Adopt the hub and
spoke model for our
private cloud solution
All services offered
and driven through a
core platform,
powered by core data
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Backbone
JP DC US DC EU DC XX DC Cloud DC
Hardware Provisioning/Management layer
Network Overlay
VM
Container Bare metal
Ecosystem Service APIs (ID/Payment/Points/etc)
Service A Service B
Platform A Platform B
Service C Service D Service E
Logs,
metrics,
alerting,
CI/CD,
etc.
Storage
Hadoop
Self Service Portal/APIs
Tenancy,
resources,
governance
Quality,
Security

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So many integrations
How we gave it structure
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Platform API
(Service provider)
One Cloud interfaces
Auditing
Tenancy
Inventory
Auth
Usage
Budget
One Cloud Services
Ecosystem services
Client services

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Start
Full integration

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What challenges lie ahead
Although we do not have a crystal ball
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So many services left to
integrate with. How to
keep scaling while keeping
the attention to detail to
each product
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How can we keep 1 step
ahead of our customers to
deliver value to them
before they can think of it
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Staying ahead of latest
trends in the developer
community
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Scale our solutions further
while continuously trying
to enhance our core
solutions
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