Cloud Foundry / Cloud Foundry Summit 2014

Technical track breakout session presented by Elisabeth Hendrickson, Pivotal.

With continuous delivery, you release frequently and with very little, or no, manual intervention. That requires three things: fully automated tests; a continuous integration server that executes those tests and can promote successful deployments; and an automated deployment mechanism with zero downtime. PaaS's are a perfect fit for this. Cloud Foundry makes zero-downtime automated deployments straightforward. Further, cloud-based CI services such as Cloudbees work well with Cloud Foundry. In this talk, Elisabeth explains how to achieve continuous delivery with Cloud Foundry using one of our own applications (docs.cloudfoundry.org) as an example.

Technical track breakout session presented by Brian McClain, Lead of Infrastructure Engineering, Warner Music Group.

Serving a global audience of enterprise users requires a global architecture of enterprise-grade software. This talk will cover the changes to UAA that WMG has made, as well as give an overview of our infrastructure architecture, specifically how we serve requests to a globally distributed user base and manage deployments amongst multiple data centers.

Business track breakout session presented by Michael Maximilien, Chief Architect PaaS Innovation, IBM Cloud Labs and James Bayer, Director of Product Management, Cloud Foundry, Pivotal.

Business track breakout session presented by Jason Anderson, Cloud Architect, IBM Cloud Labs; Egle Sigler, Principal Architect, Rackspace; Animesh Singh, Lead Architect and Strategist, IBM.

Business track breakout session presented by Cornelia Davis, Platform Engineer, Cloud Foundry, Pivotal; and Catherine Spence, Principal Engineer and Architect, Intel.

Hackathons are fun events where developers innovate, learn and build development communities. Whether conducted in an academic setting or a corporate one, the aim is to rapidly produce functional code implementations focused around one or more designated themes. Cloud Foundry is a perfect target platform for hackathons, since it supports fast application deployment for continuous integration, abstracted infrastructure, and ample technology choices in terms of buildpacks and services. For those less familiar with cloud computing, Cloud Foundry provides an ideal opportunity for participants to be introduced to new application hosting techniques (Platform as a Service) and learn keys concepts of building applications for the cloud.

In this session we will share our experiences in leveraging Cloud Foundry in support of numerous hackathons. We'll discuss what worked well, and less so, and we will share with you why and how you can deliver your own hackathon event.

Technical track breakout session presented by Wayne E Seguin, Stark & Wayne.

When working with Cloud Foundry, AppFirst's unique data collection provides unparalleled visibility over traditional tools. This full stack visibility spans the entire PaaS and respective services.

In this talk, Wayne E. Seguin of Stark & Wayne will discuss how his team found and utilized AppFirst for PaaS to gain unprecedented visibility. Through years of experience working with PaaS operations, they combined lessons learned in operations workflows yielding a deep understanding of both the space and needs. This year we will roll out an integration enabling Cloud Foundry operators to have full scale visibility across all resources.

Technical track breakout session presented by Colin Humphreys, CEO of CloudCredo.

Docker creates portable, self-sufficient containers that will deploy applications to run virtually anywhere. Learn how this will be integrated with Cloud Foundry to make deploying applications to your CF PaaS even easier.

Technical track breakout session presented by Vinícius Carvalho, Senior Field Engineer, Pivotal.

Cloud Foundry Cookbook: Recipes for a Successful Cloud Foundry Deployment in Production

Cloud Foundry provides the foundation for your PaaS infrastructure. It streamlines deployment and turns your developers and your ops into super heroes when it comes to time to market. But what about your architecture? How should you build your services (or microservices)? How can you guarantee security is being enforced on every layer of your architecture? How can you solve cross-service dependencies? How can services discover each other? How could developers leverage an API explorer to test your services and build apps on top of it? How could you leverage a data pipeline to solve polyglot persistence and cascading operations on diverse persistence technologies? How can you monetize on top of your public services? How could you use a service registry to boost your models with extended metadata?

This session presents a few recipes to demonstrate how to solve some of the problems found when applying cloud patterns to real business scenarios.

Technical track breakout session presented by Harpreet Singh, Senior Director Product Management, CloudBees.

Jenkins is the engine that drives continuous integration and delivery of software. This talk will cover all things Cloud Foundry and Jenkins - from using BOSH to layout, Jenkins Enterprise by CloudBees to setting up Jenkins easily, delivering continuously from CloudBees DEV@cloud (Jenkins as a service) to Pivotal Cloud Foundry. Future plans for using BOSH with Jenkins Operations Center by CloudBees to help manage multiple Jenkins masters will also be touched upon.

Technical track breakout session presented by Ferran Rodenas, Staff Engineer, Cloud Foundry, Pivotal.

Technical track breakout session presented by Yiftach Shoolman, CTO and Co-Founder, Redis Labs.

Why Redis? Redis is one of the top 3 databases chosen by developers. Redis is the fastest database available today has many attractive data types and commands for powering modern applications. In this session, you will learn:

-Why companies like Twitter, Pinterest, and GitHub rely on Redis as a critical infrastructure component.
-How to leverage Redis for real time analytics, social app functionality, job management, geo-search, and many other use cases.
-How to utilize Cloud Foundry's PaaS offering to build and maintain an infinitely scalable, highly available, top performing, and fully managed Redis database to power your application.

Technical track breakout session presented by Yudai Iwasaki, Lead Engineer, Software Innovation Center, NTT.

BOSH AutoScaler is an extension for BOSH to automatically scale-in/out your deployments according to your preferred rules. You can optimize the resource consumption of your deployments with BOSH AutoScaler by dynamically changing the number of virtual machines. This talk will cover how to get started with BOSH AutoScaler to auto-scale your Cloud Foundry deployments.

Technical track breakout session presented by Roman Shaposhnik, Sr. Manager of Hadoop at Pivotal.

OSv is the revolutionary new open source technology that combines the power of virtualization and micro-services architecture. This combination allows unmodified applications deployed in a virtualized environment to outperform bare-metal deployments. Yes. You've heard it right: for the first time ever we can stop asking the question of how much performance would I lose if I virtualize. OSv lets you ask a different question: how much would my application gain in performance if I virtualize it. This talk will start by looking into the architecture of OSv and the kind of optimizations it makes possible for native, unmodified applications. We will then focus on JVM-specific optimizations and specifically on speedups available to big data management distributed applications. Finally, we will look into the relationship between OSv and Docker and how that layering can help make OSv a secret sauce for turbo-charging Cloud Foundry application deployments.

Technical track breakout session presented by Matt Stine, Platform Engineer, Cloud Foundry, Pivotal.

With businesses built around software now disrupting multiple industries that appeared to have stable leaders, the need has emerged for enterprises to create "software factories" built around the following principles:

-Streaming customer feedback directly into rapid, iterative cycles of application development
-Horizontally scaling applications to meet user demand
-Compatibility with an enormous diversity of clients, with mobility (smartphones, tablets, etc.) taking the lead
-Continuous delivery of value, shrinking the cycle time from concept to cash

Infrastructure has taken the lead in adapting to meet these needs with the move to the cloud, and Platform as a Service (PaaS) has raised the level of abstraction to a focus on an ecosystem of applications and services. However, most applications are still developed as if we're living in the previous generation of both business and infrastructure: the monolithic application. Microservices - small, loosely coupled applications that follow the Unix philosophy of "doing one thing well" - represent the application development side of enabling rapid, iterative development, horizontal scale, polyglot clients, and continuous delivery. They also enable us to scale application development and eliminate long term commitments to a single technology stack.

While microservices are simple, they are certainly not easy. It's recently been said that "microservices are not a free lunch". Interestingly enough, if you look at the concerns expressed here about microservices, you'll find that they are exactly the challenges that a PaaS is intended to address. So while microservices do not necessarily imply cloud (and vice versa), there is in fact a symbiotic relationship between the two, with each approach somehow compensating for the limitations of the other, much like the practices of eXtreme Programming.

Yas Naoi
NTT Innovation Institue, Inc.

We will introduce our Cloud Foundry Integration project to accelerate DevOps. We all know that the DevOps approach brings developers and operators into closer collaboration, but the requirements of each team member are different. In order to tie these various requirements together, we package the entire agile development process as "DevOps+" including issue management, software design, code implementation, quality testing, systems deployment, security check, release management and its operation in the cloud. This session will provide a demo of "DevOps+" with the integration of Cloud Foundry.

In this talk, Jeff Hobbs will share his experiences building Stackato, based on Cloud Foundry. Stackato allows agile enterprises to develop and deploy software solutions faster than ever before and manage them more effectively. ActiveState has been part of the Cloud Foundry community from the beginning - through major revisions and numerous feature updates. Jeff will explore some of the changes in Stackato over time. Stackato's move to the Cloud Foundry v2 codebase will be discussed, and alongside the benefits, the different design and implementation approaches taken with Stackato. In closing, lessons learned will be drawn out.

In this session you will learn how Canopy is building its Cloud Fabric offering, a service-rich Enterprise PaaS powered by Pivotal CF. You will discover how Canopy has paired PCF with a set of complementary services, true cloud commercials and global deployment targets, to create an end-to-end Enterprise PaaS that is ready for consumption by the Enterprise.

Jared Wray, the creator and driving force behind Iron Foundry and the CTO of CenturyLink, talks .NET and Cloud Foundry v2 and the challenges of running a Windows process surrounded by a Linux-based world. He will demonstrate how easy it is to deploy, run, and track .NET applications in Cloud Foundry and share Iron Foundry's progress in Incubation and next steps for inclusion in the out-of-box Cloud Foundry experience.

Christophe Levesque, Senior Software Architect, AppDirect

How we Migrated to the V2 Cloud Foundry Service Broker by AppDirect

Presentation by CTO of Basho, Dave McCrory.

Chris Brown, Pivotal
Tammer Saleh, Director of Product, Cloud Foundry Services, Pivotal

The secret in building a world-class platform like Cloud Foundry is in providing a library of production ready, enterprise-grade data services. Learn from our experiences in applying the Pivotal process to building next generation data services.

- Find out which services Pivotal chose to focus on for 2014 and why.
- Hear the tradeoffs between the different tenancy strategies for shared services.
- Learn the three keys to mapping Cloud Foundry service concepts to a brand new service.
- Discover why we migrated our service brokers from Ruby to Go, and architecture we chose.
- See how we applied agile to the data realm, defining MVP and building value at every step.

Russ Miles, Chief Scientist, Simplicity Itself

On the Origin of Services by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favored Features in the Struggle for Life: The Business Benefits of Microservices with Cloud Foundry

In this talk Russ Miles, Chief Scientist at Simplicity Itself, will share his experiences of the business benefits of building software that can evolve as fast as your business needs it to on top of the Cloud Foundry PaaS.

Taking advantage of Cloud Foundry's simple usage and underlying robustness, Russ will explore the different design and implementation approaches that a microservice-based approach brings to the table and how the features of Cloud Foundry support what is important to the usage of microservices, including taking a practical tour from a monolithic application to a microservice-based application.

In conclusion Russ will share the big benefits that microservices enable and how Cloud Foundry currently and in the future might evolve to provide even better support for this approach.

Dr. Wei-Min Lu, Founder and CEO, Anchora

The Shanghai Jiao Tong University PaaS is a community cloud PaaS based on Cloud Foundry jointly built and operated by the Network and Information Center at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and MoPaaS/Anchora. It serves more than 10,000 professors, instructors, and researchers, and more than 50,000 undergraduate and graduate students. In particular, it provides an agile cloud application platform for R&D and teaching. In this talk, I will share our experience building and operating such a community PaaS using Cloud Foundry.

Paul Arnautoff, Director of Business Development, AppDirect

Two years ago, Pivotal Cloud Foundry partnered with AppDirect to launch a Services Marketplace to make it easier for Developers to find, buy and use the tools they need to build cloud software. With the recent development of Pivotal's V2 Service Broker, the AppDirect services catalog is now available through not only Pivotal Web Services, but also any private or public deployment of Cloud Foundry anywhere. In this discussion, Paul Arnautoff will highlight how AppDirect integrated with the CF Service Broker and is extending the consumption of 3rd party services across a growing network of PaaS marketplaces as well as how ISVs can integrate once with the services catalog to distribute through any Cloud Foundry deployment.

Matt Johnson & Troy Astle from Cisco present a year with CF and BOSH.

Keynote presented by Ken Owens, CTO, Cloud Services at Cisco.

Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) is a very small part of the overall cloud adaption requirements needed to enable business agility, growth, and transformation. This is an area that service providers and Telcos have been trying to optimize with traditional BSS, OSS, and provisioning systems over the last several years. The overall market for cloud in these providers is very small and not growing quickly due to their lack of development and application enablement in the physical and virtual layers. These layers are becoming commodity and not easy to differentiate business capabilities on without adding tremendous cost from enterprise software and advance services. Even with this added cost, enterprises are failing to transform because basic IaaS is a very small part of their business needs. This is not to say that IaaS does not matter. Where IaaS matters is their efficiency and platform capability that enables businesses to innovate and develop seamlessly. Consider the power to your home and office. Typically you do not worry about the quality and performance of that power. You do not call up the power company and ask for the power plants specs and performance characteristics. It's a utility and you use it. For the most part, it is reliable and available. The importance in building a cloud application enablement platform is to have a utility model mindset and ensure the platform is efficient, scalable, and 100% interoperability across other cloud solutions including PaaS and SaaS. There is too much focus on IaaS which is just a very small and commodity platform. For application enablement and development, it is critical to have an open scalable platform. This aspect is not "magic" as many cloud service provider and Telcos try to have you believe. Remember, they do not get it and are still trying to just get the basic hardware, software operating with their traditional OSS and BSS. The industry has settled on open source platforms and the leaders here are Cloud Foundry and Openshift, but the platform characteristics are what's important to understand. The industry has settled on Application Platform as a Service (aPaaS) and Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS). aPaaS represents the cloud services that offer development and deployment environments for application services. These services must be interoperable across cloud service provider boundaries. This is accomplished through open common development libraries. iPaaS is represented by a suite of services that enable development, execution, governance, workflow integration, and policy controls. This presentation will dive into the integration specification of IaaS Platforms with PaaS Platforms by discussing the architecture of: Multi-tenant Services; HA service architecture that is interoperable across multiple cloud solutions; Middleware Stack including message bus; Data Storage and Access; Data Analytics; Deployment Management (multi-vendor); Asynchronous processing capabilities; Flexible Security framework ie integration into SecSDLC; Data Protection; SOA Support; and a Common Management Architecture (console, log, metering, monitoring, performance).

Presenter: Daniel Berg, IBM Distinguished Engineer and the CTO for DevOps Tools and Strategy

Daniel Berg is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and the CTO for DevOps Tools and Strategy. Dan has been developing enterprise tools for more than fifteen years and he understands the pressures and challenges of enterprise software delivery. Dan works with customers and leaders across IBM to define the IBM DevOps strategy and vision and he's specifically responsible for IBM's tooling efforts that embrace DevOps principles including the IBM SaaS delivery services.

IBM Cloud Labs architects Michael Maximilien and Julz Friedman discuss the Dojo.

Mike Heath, Principal Software Engineer, LDS Church

Our organization, like many enterprises, has invested heavily in the Java platform. We have been able to leverage this investment our in Cloud Foundry deployment. We will be sharing our experiences using Java to build Cloud Foundry components such as service brokers, how we use BOSH to deploy our Java code, and how we can easily integrate with existing Cloud Foundry components such as NATS and collector.

Mark Seidenstricker, Infrastructure Architect, Monsanto

Tracking and understanding key operational metrics are crucial to ensuring the availability and health of any system. This session will illustrate how a popular log aggregation platform can utilize Pivotal Ops Metrics to provide monitoring and alerting capabilities for your Cloud Foundry environment.

Presenter: Cornelia Davis, Platform Engineer, Cloud Foundry, Pivotal

Platform as a Service is not just for the developer. It must provide equal or greater value to the application operator as well. The Cloud Foundry PaaS has four levels of HA built in! We'll explain each of them and show you how, collectively, they do an extraordinary job keeping application instances up and running in the face of failures. Your operators will spend less time on recovery and more time on innovation as a result.

Presenter: Casey Hadden, Software Developer and Architect, SAS

SAS is a software vendor with 35+ years of industry history (and 35+ years of software decisions). From mainframes, Unix workstations, and client-server to web applications, big data, and cloud; one constant has been the changing computing environment. Throughout these eras, SAS software and the SAS business has adapted to each change in order to deliver valuable analytics to our customers.

With cloud environments firmly ensconced and PaaS gaining traction every day, how does SAS rework its software and business again to compete and thrive in this environment? How can SAS help to fill in the 'Analytics' portion of an enterprise PaaS strategy?

Keynote presented by Dr. Swamy Kocherlakota, Managing Director and Global Head of Architecture and Engineering & David Lewis at BNY Mellon.

BNY Mellon is a financial services company with over a decade of experience in utility computing and platform as a service solutions. They recently joined the Cloud Foundry Foundation as a gold partner. This conversation with James Watters and BNY Mellon's cloud technology leaders will highlight what BNY Mellon's experiences have been and how joining the Cloud Foundry Foundation may influence their strategy.

Modern business is putting Enterprise IT under tremendous pressure to achieve cost savings and significantly greater agility while retaining good governance practices. Adoption of public cloud is a common approach to addressing at least some of these challenges. However, a number of forces are driving most established organizations to use both private and public cloud infrastructure simultaneously -- so-called Hybrid Clouds. This presentation will discuss how Cloud Foundry can be used to simplify the transition to Hybrid Cloud and facilitate the management of applications to achieve both agility and governance in these environments.

Killian Murphy, Senior Director of Product Management, Cloud Foundry at VMware.

Keynote presented by Lajos Lange, Head of Online Development, Axel Springer; Matthias Naber, Software Engineer, Axel Springer; and Tore Sagstuen, CTO, FjordIT.

In order to ensure diverse, independent and high quality journalism in the future there is a need to rethink the classic publisher business while IT has to become part of the core products. On the way to digital transformation, we have to adapt to agile methodologies, and historically grown, complex infrastructures have to be reinvented in order to speed up the development process. With Cloud Foundry, we realized our vision of an innovative, fully automated service delivery platform by accelerating the time and quantity to market rate and reducing IT costs at the same time. The service oriented nature of the PaaS approach enables a modularization strategy for applications. We will discuss how Cloud Foundry's capabilities helped to establish a culture of prototyping in combination with continuous delivery and business intelligence in order to form minimal viable products.

Ben Hale, Java Experience Lead, Cloud Foundry at Pivotal.

At the last Cloud Foundry conference, the Java Buildpack was introduced as the easiest way to run Java applications in the cloud. Since then the buildpack has only gotten better. Contributions from both Pivotal and the open source community have greatly enhanced the Cloud Foundry Java application experience. This talk explores the new application types that can be run and the new services we can integrate with. It also touches on HTTP session replication across instances and finally will touch on the packaged and offline buildpacks.

Keynote presented by Richard Leurig, Senior Vice President, Innovation Development Center, CoreLogic.

CoreLogic is a leading global property information, analytics and data-enabled services provider. As part of a strategic technology transformation, CoreLogic has embarked upon building a product and data delivery platform based on the Cloud Foundry PaaS. Working with Pivotal, the CoreLogic Innovation Development Center is developing new products on a scalable common component ecosystem with a Hybrid Cloud strategy which in turn will facilitate innovation and drive faster product delivery.

Keynote presented by Manav Mishra, Director of Product, HP Helion.

Today, enterprise developers need the ability to easily develop and deploy applications across different types of cloud deployments, in a framework of their choice. Sounds simple. However, in today's world developers need to understand the entire cloud underpinning, and enterprise applications require open and flexible architectures that deliver consistent access to infrastructure and highly available services. Join Manav Mishra, Director, Product, HP Cloud, for an engaging discussion on HP's strategy and innovation around HP Helion, the role of Cloud Foundry and OpenStack® and why it matters to today's enterprise developers.

Keynote presented by Bala Rajaraman, IBM Distinguished Engineer and CTO for Cloud Platform Services and Angel Diaz, IBM VP Open Technologies & Cloud Performance.

Cloud is here - but are your developers? 72% of developers report already using cloud-based services or APIs as part of the applications that they are building, 85% of new software is being built for cloud and by 2016, 25% of all the world's applications will be in the cloud. These are some really big shifts that are relevant to nearly any organization whether your team started day 1 with cloud-based applications and services or if they're brand new to the game.

In this keynote, Bala Rajaraman, IBM Distinguished Engineer and CTO for Cloud Platform Services and Angel Diaz, IBM VP Open Technologies & Cloud Performance discuss how Cloud Foundry Summit has a lot to offer for developers of all stripes, making it THE open source PaaS project for the industry. They will discuss the role of Cloud Foundry in an open cloud architecture and let's face it, if your business is not building on open technologies, you're building a dead end Cloud.

Keynote presented by James Watters, Vice President of Product, Marketing, and Ecosystem for Cloud Foundry, Pivotal.

Keynote presented by Mark Seidenstricker, Infrastructure Architect, Monsanto.

The benefits of cloud computing are undisputed, but successful large-scale adoption remains a challenge for many enterprises due to the required shift in technology, culture, and operational models. This presentation will explore how we envision PaaS as the catalyst for a successful cloud strategy by enabling many of the benefits of cloud while simultaneously mitigating some common cloud adoption concerns.

Keynote presented by Steve Winkler, Open Cloud Strategy at SAP; and Dirk Basenach, VP of Development at SAP.

There are many approaches to running enterprise applications in the cloud, and SAP has made a strategic choice to leverage the Open Source solution Cloud Foundry for this purpose. This presentation will provide details on SAP's approach to Open Source in the cloud, focusing on the PaaS layer and showing how Cloud Foundry can be used to extend existing SAP products and to develop entirely new enterprise applications. Moreover, the presentation will show how the SAP HANA in-memory platform and Cloud Foundry will come together to provide an enterprise-grade, real-time open platform in the cloud.