The promise of many current PaaS platforms is that they will make application development on the cloud simple. To achieve this, most PaaS platforms take the "my way or the highway" approach (a.k.a opinionated architecture), and force you to fit into their own stack, language of choice, cloud data center, security, high availability, and scalability models. The result is that once you’re in – you’re locked in forever. Cloudify aims to change all that by giving you the freedom to choose your own stack, on any cloud, and handle your application without code changes.

1. GigaSpaces Cloudify
The PaaS Jail-Breaker
IGT PaaS Summit
Uri Cohen, VP Products
@uri1803

2. Why PaaS In the First Place?

3. It’s Simple, Fisher-Price Simple
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4. It’s Agile
Enter GigaSpaces XAP
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5. But Does it Meet YOUR Needs?
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6. New Breed of PaaS Platforms
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7. Is This Good Enough for YOU?
Ask yourself:
• Do I need additional platforms?
• Do I need a different
OS version/type?
• Can I settle for the
underlying cloud SLAs?
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8. You (Probably) Don’t Want to:
Fork, learn source Rely on a vendor to do
code, change, push, req it for you…
uest pull on github…
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9. Step Back: Perspectives on PaaS
Developer: “PaaS is so Sys admin: “PaaS is just
easy, who needs sys giant blackbox toy that I
admins anyway”? can’t really use for real-
world app”
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10. DevOps to the Rescue
 DevOps is all about:
 Automating complex IT
processes
 With Full visibility and
control
 We thought it would
make a good
foundation for PaaS…
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11. Putting PaaS & DevOps Together
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12. Result: YOUR App, UNCHANGED, on ANY Cloud
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13. Introducing GigaSpaces Cloudify
Any App, Any Stack Automation of the Entire Lifecycle
Deploy any middleware stack using a Deploy, manage, and update your
recipe based deployment mechanism application using a single platform
Automatic Self-Healing Any Cloud
Crashed nodes and machines are Support all major cloud and
automatically replaced by new virtualization platforms
ones, following recipe instructions
Auto-Scale, Your Way Cluster-Aware Monitoring &
Automatic scaling of your application Management
services based on out-of-the-box or Pluggable monitoring, custom
custom metrics alerts, and application-aware
monitoring console
Fully Testable on Your Laptop
Easily start, debug & test on a
LocalCloud. No VMs, no hassles.
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14. Application Description using RECIPES
Groovy-DSL based
Setup (a-la Chef, Puppet)
Provisioning for any cloud:
local, public, private
Customizable monitoring
Scaling (manual and auto)
application {
name="simple app"
service {
service {
name "jboss-service"
lifecycle{ "mysql-service”}
name =
icon "jboss.jpg"
service {
init "mysql_install.groovy”
type "APP_SERVER“
name = "jboss-service"
start "mysql_start.groovy”
numInstances 2
dependsOn = [“mysql-service”}
stop "mysql_stop.groovy"
} [recipe body]
}
}
..
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15. Built-in recipes
XAP
Spring XAP Processing Unit CouchDB
MySQL
JBoss
Tomcat Cassandra
MongoDB
JEE & Spring Ruby on Rails
Node.js
Hadoop
Relational & Big Data
PHP
Web
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16. Built In Cloud Drivers (Partial List)
Your Own
Data Center
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17. Live Demo
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18. Live Demo
 See the recipe
 Start a local cloud and deploy PetClinic on it
 With MongoDB at the backend
 No VMs, no hassles
 Switch to EC2 to see the same app deployed
there, with
 Application visualization
 Generic & customizable monitoring
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19. Get it today, for free:
www.gigaspaces.com/cloudify