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Chapter

Opening

September 16, 2015Presentation Title

Using Blueprints to Overcome Multi-speed IT Challenges

Rapid iterations

Develop Build Test Deploy

Systems of RecordDevelop Build Test Deploy

Systems of Engagement

Production

Production

Virtualize

Slower iterations

Virtualize

Two-Speed IT is Today’s Reality

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Intuitive and Scalable Model Driven Deployment

Composite Applications

Components

Re-usable Workflows Environment Management

SIT

PROD

The “What” The “How” The “Where”

DEPLOYMENT AUTOMATION

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IBM UrbanCode Deploy

Mobile App

Middleware

Backend Systems of

Record

Automating hybrid cloud application deployments

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Application model – The “What”

Reliably capture application content and configuration settings with versioning

and traceability

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Deploy Application

- Orchestrate deployment of many components

- Represents deploy-time dependencies Deploy Component

- Create a fully automated workflow to be run on the

target servers

Drag-and-Drop Workflow Designer

Precise Control of Execution Flow

Hundreds of Integration Steps Provided

Create Custom Steps

Deployment Processes – The “How”

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Application environments – The “Where”

Define where components are deployed and capture configuration settings per

deployment environment for an application

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Putting it all together – Continuous Delivery

Before any

deployments to

production, manual

approvals are

required.

After deployment,

automated tests are started.

If they pass, we mark the

tested versions as such.

On build completion, the

latest artifacts are

published to UrbanCode

Deploy and deployed to a

development or SIT

environment.

The exact combination of

component versions which

passed tests is captured in a

snapshot.

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UrbanCode Deploy Blueprint Designer

IBM UrbanCode Deploy

Blueprint Designer

• Full stack Application Design & Provisioning

– Design open, full stack application environments from diagram or source

• Portability to heterogeneous clouds

– Capture the expertise of a heterogeneous DevOps team, from solution architects to IT specialists

• Hybrid clouds: Blend your application with PaaS, SaaS, and Traditional IT

– Enables you to balance speed, cost, and flexibility according to your specific needs

• Continuous Delivery of Applications into the Cloud

– Eliminate weeks of waiting for new environments when starting new projects or testing new app changes

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VMware

vCenter

• Utilizing OpenStack Heat

– Heat orchestration document

• Cloud Portability

– Avoid vendor lock-in

– Provision the same blueprint to multiple cloud platforms

– Public:

• Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, IBM SoftLayer

– On-Prem:

• vCenter, vRealize Automation, OpenStack

• Compatible with Openstack-based IBM Cloud Offerings

– IBM Cloud Orchestrator (ICO)

– IBM BlueBox

• Ships with Heat integration for UrbanCode Deploy

VMware

vCenter

Provision

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Cloud Platform Support

Cloud-Enabled Workloads with UrbanCode Deploy

Your applications are managed throughout the entire release process with predictable automation and inventory services

Your full-stack blueprints capture the relationships between your applications and cloud infrastructure

OpenStack API provides defacto standards for interacting with all of your cloud resources

Heat Blueprints

UrbanCodeDeploy

Compute Network Storage

Your Applications &

Middleware

Full-stack Application Pattern

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IBM UrbanCode Deploy Blueprint Designer - Overview

• Graphically design full-stack deployments– Rich UI editor

– Source editor

• Heat / HOT document

– Infrastructure: compute, network, security, storage

– Software Components

– Policies

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• UrbanCode Deploy

– Create environment, resource tree

– Execute component processes

– Execute application process

• Optionally select application snapshots

• Chef

– Provision Chef roles on target virtual machines

• VMware vRealize Automation

– Provision VRA Software Components

• Software Configurations

– Use custom scripts in-line in a blueprint

• Bash, Powershell

Deployable Software Components

UCD Components

VRA Software

Components

Chef Roles

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Composite Design

• Compose blueprints from multiple sources

– Discovered artifacts

– Referenced artifacts

– Other blueprints

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Environment Status

• Environment Table

– Quick summary of provisioned environments

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• REST API

– Full REST API to automate provisioning actions

• Provision environments from UrbanCode Deploy

– Self-service catalog to request new environment

Blueprint Designer Automation

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Git Integration

• Source-control blueprints via built-in Git integration

– Infrastructure as code

Git history

Change

comparison

view

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Auto Scaling and Load Balancing

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Amazon Web Services Support

Support for Amazon:

• Elasticache

• S3 Object Storage

• Relational Database as a Service

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Watson Health Cloud

A New Partnership Between Humanity and Technology

It’s time to transform health with new ways of working to improve approaches to care,

productivity and well-being. Watson Health’s cognitive systems understand, reason and learn –

helping to translate information into knowledge that can help drive more informed decision-

making. With cognitive computing, we can see and analyze more data than ever before – and

achieve more than we ever thought possible.

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Institute the Principles of Software Delivery in Every Service,

Solution, Offering in Watson Health

• Create a repeatable, reliable process for

releasing software

• Automate almost everything

• Keep everything in version control

• If it hurts, do it more frequently and bring the

pain forward.

• Build quality in

• Done means released

• Everybody is responsible for the delivery

process

• Continuous Improvement

To drive benefits such as

• [Business] Faster delivery of features

• [Business] More stable operating environments

• [Business] More time to add value (vs fix/maintain)

• [Technical] Continuous software delivery

• [Technical] Less complex problems to fix

• [Technical] Faster resolution of problems

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Continuous and Collaborative Development Tool Chain

Continuous Delivery: Integrate

with build and test tools to

automatically deploy, test and

promote new builds

Production

Deployments: Orchestrate

complex production deployments

of applications and configuration

Incremental Updates: Deploy

only the changed components or

missing incremental (patch)

versions

Stand up continuous delivery pipeline

environments quickly for new applications

Provision short-lived testing

sandboxes for specific infrastructure

combinations

Promote infrastructure changes

through environments just like application

changes

Collaborate by composing the work of

infrastructure specialists into full

environments

Drive environment consistency from

testing to production

Create and manage flexible,

dynamic infrastructure

Automate and continuous

deliver

Continuously deliver

applications faster and safer

with a proven pipeline

Repository

management,

Code reviews,

Issue tracking,

Activity feeds

Wikis.

Open source automation server

Continuous integration and continuous

delivery application that increases team

productivity

Rich plugin ecosystem: integrates with

virtually every SCM or build tool that exists.

Extensibility: Can be extended and modified,

and it's easy to create new Jenkins plugins.

Distributed builds: can distribute build/test

loads

Requirements,

Quality plans

Change and

Configuration

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A Typical Flow Through the Tool Chain

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Softlayer Cloud(s)

{Test Framework(s)}

Full stack provisioning

Continuous Deployment / Delivery

Continuous code updatesAutomated Builds

Automated Tests

Automated Tests

MW recipes

Solution artifacts

Interoperability between

RTC work items and GIT

change sets

Publish test results

Appscan

Saucelabs

Fitnesse

FindBugs

SonarQube

BlazeMeter

LoadImpact

Selenium

Cucumber

Rational Performance Test

Full Stack Solution Provisioning Services

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Leveraging and extending IBM Cloud’s UrbanCode Deploy product portfolio,

here is an example solution blueprint showing how IBM Watson Health Cloud

provisions a solution end-to-end automatically on SoftLayer.

Each Blueprint can contain

• SoftLayer VLAN specification

• Multiples VMs

• Middleware (e.g., DB2, WAS; installed via Chef)

• Management Agents (e.g., monitoring, IEM; installed via Chef)

• MW configs, security support (configured via UCD)

• Solution components (installed/setup via UCD)

To enable this end to end solution, the following needed to be developed:

1. Ability for OpenStack Heat and UrbanCode Deploy to support vm creation

in SoftLayer.

2. Ability for OpenStack Heat and UrbanCode Deploy to support invocation

of Chef

3. Images for SoftLayer with appropriate support for UCD/UCDP/Chef and

appropriate safeguards for IBM/HIPAA compliance

4. Chef Cookbooks for IBM Middleware platforms

5. UCD Assets (Applications, Components, and Processes) to install a

solution to the Watson Health Cloud

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