ravello webinar: enterprise devops powered by nested virtualization

Enterprise DevOps Powered By Nested Virtualization

Shruti Bhat

Director, Product Marketing

@ravellosystems

www.ravellosystems.com 2

Agenda

• “Enterprise” DevOps• Infrastructure challenges• Pipeline and key components• Nested virtualization solution• Live Demo • Next Steps

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Software is eating the world*

Increasing pressure to build better applications and faster time to market

www.ravellosystems.com

Agile development

methods

Continuous development

and testing on clones of

production environments

* From Marc Andreessen’s essay in the Wall Street Journal 8/20/2011 (here)

This implies …

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903480904576512250915629460.html


Infrastructure Not Keeping Pace With Agile Teams

Requirement: Repeatable deployments (clones) of complex multi-tier production applications for -Dev/ QA environments -UAT/ Upgrade testing environments-Continuous integration and delivery

Capacity

Automation

Fidelity

• Enterprise multi-tier architecture

• Enterprise-grade appliances (F5, Fortinet, Juniper)

• Production running on VMware in the data center

• Security

Enterprise DevOps Needs Best Of Both Worlds

• Scale on demand

• Never run out of capacity

• Developer self-service

• Advanced configuration management

• Continuous integration/ continuous delivery

Enterprise Requirements DevOps Requirements


Dev SCM Build Integration testing

UAT Performance testing

Staging Production

Dev SCM Build UAT Performance testing

Staging Production

Latest production configuration is used by dev/QA

Developer self-service for dev/test environments

Dev/QA always provision clones of latest production environment

Running on AWS/ Google or any public cloud for on-demand capacity Running on VMware

trigger

Hourly check-in

Pass: promote to UAT

Pass: perform relative performance testing

Pass: promote to staging

Pass: deploy new build in VMware prod environment

Fail: feedback to dev

Integration testing

trigger

Packaged software (eg:Sharepoint) may not

involve all the initial stages of the pipeline

but still needs:-Upgrade testing

-UAT-Staging etc


DevOps Tackles Several Issues

Source: www.devopsdays.com


How Do You Eat An Elephant? One Bite At A Time…

Auto-provision and deploy full-stack production clones in any cloud on-demand.

Single repository with frequent builds. Automated continuous integration testing on production clones

Manage and maintain complex configurations and frequent configuration changes

Automate Infrastructure

Automate Build & Test

Configuration Management

Nested Virtualization

Jenkins/Hudson/ Teamcity/Bamboo etc

Chef/ Puppet/ Salt/ Ansible etc

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About Ravello Systems

• Founded in 2011 by creators of KVM

• Deep expertise in virtualization, cloud, storage & networking

• Delivering nested virtualization as a service


Founding team track record

Used by:

Continuous Integration/ Continuous Delivery Pipeline at Deutsche Telekom

Enterprise DevOps Case Study: Deutsche Telekom HBS

Jenkins

http://www.ravellosystems.com/customer-case-studies/deutsche-telekom


Key Concepts In Nested Virtualization

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From Virtual Machines to Multi-tier App Environments

Virtual machine Multi-tier app environment


Multi-tier application with networking & storage configurations

VM VM VM VM

Networking

Storage

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From automating VMs to automating multi-tier app environments


VM automation Multi-tier app environment automation

Snapshot, clone, save as template, instant provisioning, auto-deploy..

Snapshot, clone, save as template, instant provisioning, auto-deploy, network fencing, storage allocation, host spanning, live link..

Minimize manual/scripting overhead

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From Server Agnostic To Cloud Agnostic


Use compute, networking & storage on any cloud: private or public

Any x86 server

VM: server agnostic Multi-tier app environment: cloud agnostic

Eliminate capacity constraints

VM

Networking Storage


Ravello’s Nested Virtualization & Software Defined Networking Solution

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Nested Virtualization: Encapsulates, Abstracts & Automates Multi-Tier App Environments

Encapsulates


VM VM VM

Networking

Storage

Abstracts

Compute, network & storage on any cloud– private or public (AWS, Google, Rackspace, HP Cloud etc)

Automates

-Snapshots/clones-Templates-Network fencing-Live Link-Console Access-Developer self-service-Auto-provision & deploy on any cloud without modifying VM or networking

Multi-VM

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Ravello: High Fidelity Production Clones In The Cloud


Clone*

*No modifications to VMs or networking. Application believes it is running in its native environment (eg: same VMs, static IPs, hostnames, multi-cast)

Datacenter(VMware)


Ravello: Self-service for developers to clone, snapshot and share multi-tier application

environments

Template of multi-tier app including networking and storage saved as a

blueprint in Ravello

One-click or API call Production clone 1 on AWS

Production clone 2 on HP Cloud

Production clone 3 on private cloud

IT Ops

Dev

QA

Dev

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Live Demo



Under The Hood: Understanding Nested Virtualization

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Ravello Technology: Sneak Peak Under The Hood

Software-defined networking

HVX – high performance nested hypervisor

Managem

ent

Ravello

Software-defined storage

Binary translation to ensure your native

VM remains unmodified

Storage allocation for your VMs in the selected cloud

Fenced L2 network to ensure your static IPs, DNS, subnets

remain unmodified

Online SaaS portal – nothing to download

or install

Private or public cloud: AWS, HP Cloud, Rackspace etc


Results With Ravello

• Application blueprinting saves multi-tier app environment as a template

• Developers have self service to spin up multi-tier app environments with one click

• Continuous integration on replicas of production using Ravello APIs

• Rapid prototyping with versioning of environments • Development & test teams collaborate on live

application instances • Easy re-creation of bugs/problems by snapshotting

entire multi-tier app • No capacity constraints – use any cloud on demand

1. Identify your application

2. Take Advantage Of The Ravello Jumpstart• Two week free trial – we pay for your cloud VMs • Free professional services – technical assistance

for onboarding • Free training

Next Steps

Free Trial www.ravellosystems.com

Thank You!

Q & A

Shruti Bhat, Director Product Marketing [email protected]