Cloud Foundry - cs.uky.edu
21
Cloud Foundry An introduction and overview October 3, 2018 | Bill Kidwell and Chris Wells
Transcript of Cloud Foundry - cs.uky.edu
Cloud Foundry
An introduction and overview
October 3, 2018 | Bill Kidwell and Chris Wells
OpenText ©2018 All Rights Reserved. 2
Introduction
• Why cloud foundry?
• What does it do for me?
• Where can I learn more?
This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA
OpenText ©2018 All Rights Reserved. 4
• Your million dollar idea?
• It’s your turn to disrupt business as
we know it.
Uber for Pet Stores?
This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND
OpenText ©2018 All Rights Reserved. 5
petgo delivers animals
when I can’t get them
myself
-- A crazy cat lady
* with apologies to Pet co.
OpenText ©2018 All Rights Reserved. 6
• Mobile first
• High availability
• Scale with demand
• Need it fast
• Limited market window
• Lean team of engineers
• Do more with less
• Tight market
• Keep a minimum overhead
Key Objectives
This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-ND
OpenText ©2018 All Rights Reserved. 7
• Amazon Web Services
• AWS Lamda and API Gateway
• S3 Document storage
• DynamoDB (NoSQL db)
So You Pounce…
OpenText ©2018 All Rights Reserved. 8
• Amazon is now launching a drone-
delivered pet service
• Investors are not happy that they
are paying AWS, and thus the
competition!
• We need to change cloud
providers!
We Have A Problem…
OpenText ©2018 All Rights Reserved. 9
• Layers to isolate you from vendor specific APIs
• But, we were moving fast!
• Options
• Add the layering
• Re-write portions of the app
• Timelines just got tighter
• But, does this really happen?
Welcome to Vendor Lock-in!
This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND
OpenText ©2018 All Rights Reserved. 10
Cloud Foundry Foundation
OpenText ©2018 All Rights Reserved. 11
IT is Evolving
https://docs.cloudfoundry.org/concepts/overview.html
OpenText ©2018 All Rights Reserved. 12
Demo – Pushing an Application to Cloud Foundry
OpenText ©2018 All Rights Reserved. 13
What is Cloud Foundry Doing for Me?
Buildpack
Rootfs
Stemcell
CloudFoundry
Container
Filesystem
OpenText ©2018 All Rights Reserved. 14
A More Complete Depiction
https://docs.cloudfoundry.org/concepts/how-applications-are-staged.html
OpenText ©2018 All Rights Reserved. 15
Scaling Your Application
https://docs.cloudfoundry.org/concepts/high-availability.html
OpenText ©2018 All Rights Reserved. 16
Demo: Scaling An Application
OpenText ©2018 All Rights Reserved. 17
Services and Service Brokers
https://docs.cloudfoundry.org/services/overview.html
OpenText ©2018 All Rights Reserved. 18
Demo: Binding to a Service
OpenText ©2018 All Rights Reserved. 19
Image from: https://medium.com/easyread/today-i-learned-series-twelve-factor-app-af28b0d3fd45
Where to learn more
https://pivotal.io/platform https://12factor.net
OpenText ©2018 All Rights Reserved. 20
What Did We Learn?
• Why Cloud Foundry is important
• What problems CF solves
• Deploying an application
• Scaling an application
• How to bind additional services
This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA
OpenText ©2018 All Rights Reserved. 21
opentext.com
twitter.com/opentext
linkedin.com/company/opentext
Thank you
Resumes welcome
