using chef and appfirst to automate scale-out/scale-down of web applications – mark white

800.782.2181 www.appfirst.com

Pamela@ AppFirst.com

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•  Simultaneous Monitoring of Multiple Virtual

Ecosystems •  Business Intelligence •  Development Enablement •  Operational Oversight •  Big Data Simplified •  Criteria to Produce Common Operating Picture

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•  Monitoring •  Application Performance Management •  Log Management •  Business Intelligence Metrics •  Security •  Compliance

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Applications •  Web 2.0 Applications •  Enterprise Applications •  Distributed Applications •  Legacy Applications Application Dependencies

•  Database Relationships •  Frontend to Backend •  Storage Devices

Correlated Statistics •  System Resource Utilization •  Various BI metrics Response Times •  Network Response •  Application Response

Security •  Info Sec •  Compliance

8 Different Silos = Different Views

•  DevOps: Rapid Development/Deployment •  Environments are changing faster than we,

the Ops half, can keep up. •  It’s not enough to just be point solution any

longer. •  Take Operational Intelligence and make it

Actionable Intelligence

9 Different Silos = Different Views

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•  Provides a Common Operating Picture through Web UI •  Removal of silos for your Big Data •  Native Integration w/ JMX, Nagios, & StatsD •  Provides an agnostic, comprehensive set of data. •  Integration with Chef for Automated Scale Up/Down

based on foreseeable consequences of production issues.

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•  Alert based actionable intelligence. •  AppFirst will provision EC2 server without

human interaction •  AppFirst will terminate EC2 instance based

on drop off in usage levels •  Configurable via APIs

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** Patent Pending