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1 Deploying a Service into the Cloud Michael Eichenberger CEO stepping stone GmbH Open Cloud Day 16 th of June 2015

2 Goal About us & me What are the Challenges? Identification of Needs Requirements Definition Architecture Planning Implementation Operation and Verification 16th of June 2015 Deploying a Service into the Cloud 2/21

3 About us Since more the 11 years on the market Consulting, planning and conceptual design Automation, installation and configuration Capacity planning and operation Virtual machines, scalable storage and server load balancing Backup, monitoring and stand-by services 16th of June 2015 Deploying a Service into the Cloud 3/21

4 About me CEO, System Architect and DevOps at stepping stone GmbH Open Source enthusiast Small contributions to various Open Source projects 16th of June 2015 Deploying a Service into the Cloud 4/21

5 Why move into the Cloud? High Dependency on ICT Core Capabilities Know How Scalability Availability Freedom Costs 16th of June 2015 Deploying a Service into the Cloud 5/21

6 What are the Challenges? We have conflicting areas between Marketing Economy Law Technology 16th of June 2015 Deploying a Service into the Cloud 6/21

7 Technical Challenges Software and Operating System in use Forced reboots Required Maintenance Windows for Software Patching (Security Fixes) Software Updates (Version bumps) Data (Import, replacement,...) 16th of June 2015 Deploying a Service into the Cloud 7/21

8 Identification of Needs Business critical? Availability? Visitors? Expected growth? Peak loads? Maximum Downtime per Incident? Life span of the installation? 16th of June 2015 Deploying a Service into the Cloud 8/21

9 General Requirements to consider One or more data centre locations Local energy supplier Network Scalable infrastructure Server Load Balancer (SLB) Monitoring with trend analysis Stand-by service 16th of June 2015 Deploying a Service into the Cloud 9/21

10 Possible Requirements 99.9 % availability around the clock % availability between 09:00 and 16:00 on week days High scalability required No data scalability required Seasonal peaks in December keep you budget in mind... 16th of June 2015 Deploying a Service into the Cloud 10/21

11 Web Application 16th of June 2015 Deploying a Service into the Cloud 11/21

12 Technical Assumptions Database is the core of the application Session Pinning is given Users always land on the same server Eventual Consistency for Caching Storage is available to all servers 16th of June 2015 Deploying a Service into the Cloud 12/21

13 Architecture Planning I 16th of June 2015 Deploying a Service into the Cloud 13/21

14 Architecture Planning II 16th of June 2015 Deploying a Service into the Cloud 14/21

15 Architecture Planning III 16th of June 2015 Deploying a Service into the Cloud 15/21

16 Implementation DevOps Roll-out Automation (Test Production) Reproducible Roll-back Possibilities What are the criteria for a roll-back? Monitoring including a corresponding Service Level Agreement Documentation Training 16th of June 2015 Deploying a Service into the Cloud 16/21

17 Operation and Verification Test-automation (Test Production) Functional Tests Load Tests Failure Scenarios Hardware Software Data input (validation) Acceptance 16th of June 2015 Deploying a Service into the Cloud 17/21

18 Lessons Learned The Solution does not exist A compromise between desire and affordability Clear requirement are a necessity Simple architecture (KISS) Roll-out automation Test-automation Ongoing monitoring and verification 16th of June 2015 Deploying a Service into the Cloud 18/21

19 Questions? 16th of June 2015 Deploying a Service into the Cloud 19/21

20 Links th of June 2015 Deploying a Service into the Cloud 20/21

21 stepping stone GmbH Neufeldstrasse 9 CH-3012 Bern Phone: info@stepping-stone.ch 16th of June 2015 Deploying a Service into the Cloud 21/21

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