Using Blueprints to Overcome Multi-speed IT Challenges
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The document discusses IBM's approach to utilizing blueprints for addressing multi-speed IT challenges through rapid application deployments and management. It highlights the features of IBM UrbanCode Deploy, such as application modeling, deployment orchestration, and integration with hybrid clouds. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of continuous delivery and automation in software development and deployment processes to enhance productivity and reduce complexity.
![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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Using Blueprints to Overcome Multi-speed IT Challenges
- 1. 1IBM _ Chapter Opening September 16, 2015Presentation Title Using Blueprints to Overcome Multi-speed IT Challenges
- 2. Rapid iterations Develop Build Test Deploy Systems of Record Develop Build Test Deploy Systems of Engagement Production Production Virtualize Slower iterations Virtualize Two-Speed IT is Today’s Reality 2
- 3. Intuitive and Scalable Model Driven Deployment Composite Applications Components Re-usable Workflows Environment Management SIT PROD The “What” The “How” The “Where” DEPLOYMENT AUTOMATION 3
- 4. IBM UrbanCode Deploy Mobile App Middleware Backend Systems of Record Automating hybrid cloud application deployments 4
- 5. Application model – The “What” Reliably capture application content and configuration settings with versioning and traceability 5
- 6. 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” 6
- 7. Application environments – The “Where” Define where components are deployed and capture configuration settings per deployment environment for an application 7
- 8. 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. 8
- 9. 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 9 VMware vCenter
- 10. • 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 10 Cloud Platform Support
- 11. 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 UrbanCode Deploy Compute Network Storage Your Applications & Middleware Full-stack Application Pattern 11
- 12. 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 12
- 13. • 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 13
- 14. Composite Design • Compose blueprints from multiple sources – Discovered artifacts – Referenced artifacts – Other blueprints 14
- 15. Environment Status • Environment Table – Quick summary of provisioned environments 15
- 16. • REST API – Full REST API to automate provisioning actions • Provision environments from UrbanCode Deploy – Self-service catalog to request new environment Blueprint Designer Automation 16
- 17. Git Integration • Source-control blueprints via built-in Git integration – Infrastructure as code Git history Change comparison view 17
- 18. Auto Scaling and Load Balancing 18
- 19. Amazon Web Services Support Support for Amazon: • Elasticache • S3 Object Storage • Relational Database as a Service 19
- 20. 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. 20
- 21. 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 21
- 22. 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 22
- 23. A Typical Flow Through the Tool Chain 23 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
- 24. Full Stack Solution Provisioning Services 24 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
- 25. 25IBM _ January 12, 2017Using Blueprints to Overcome Multi-speed IT Challenges Q&A