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Swisscom Cloud Offerings – mongoDB as a ServiceLukas LehmannMongoDB Days GermanyMunich, October 2015

Agenda

• Managed Service Status Quo• Swisscom Application Cloud• Version 1.0 mainly VM based• Version 2.0 container based• Feature Requests• Case study IP TV

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Version 1.0October 2015

Big PictureCreate Service Process I

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AppCloud User

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Cloud Foundry Network

Portal or CLI

Cloud Foundry

cf create service ent-mongodb

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Big PictureCreate Service Process II

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Cloud Foundry

Service Manager


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Big PictureCreate Service Process III

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Portal or CLI

Cloud Foundry

Service ManagerManagement Node 1

MMS HTTP ServiceChange config


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Big PictureCreate Service Process IV

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Services Network


Portal or CLI

Cloud Foundry


MMS HTTP Service

Data Volume

MongoDB Node

MMS Automation Agent

Change config

Get config

MongoDB 1


- One MongoDB per VM spawn up by automation agent

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Detail View MongoDB Management 10

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MMS HTTP Service

Data Volume

MongoDB Node


Change config

Get config

MongoDB 1


OpsManager setup

Data Volume

Management Node 1

MMS HTTP Service

MMS DB Primary

Management Node 2

MMS DB Sec.

Management Node 3

MMS DB Sec.

Monitoring Agent

MongoDB Node


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Access MongoDB from Cloud Foundry11

AppCloud User

Services Network


Portal or CLI

Cloud Controller


MMS HTTP Service

Data Volume

MongoDB Node


MongoDB 1


DEA

App (Container)

App connects directly to service

Data Volume

MongoDB Node


MongoDB 2

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Service Broker functioncreate service mongodb

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Service Manager Management Node 1

MMS HTTP Service

Data Volume

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Change config

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MongoDB 1



Detail view creationCreates new standalone MongoDB on a free node

in current mms group config

Portal orCLI

Cloud Controller

Service Broker

MMS HTTP Service

MongoD

Create Service(HTTP) Create Service(HTTP)

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Service Broker functioncreate service mongodb

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Portal or CLI

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Service Manager Management Node 1

MMS HTTP Service

Data Volume

MongoDB Node


Change config

Get config

MongoDB 1



Detail view bindingCreates a new user in db with native mongodb command

Portal orCLI

Cloud Controller

Service Broker

MMS HTTP Service

MongoD

Create Service(HTTP) Create Service(HTTP)

Bind service (HTTP) Bind service (HTTP)

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Backup functionality

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MMS HTTP Service

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Trigger backup executionNew snapshot

OpsManager 2.0 preview

Management Node 2

Backup Deamon

Take snapshot(sync Opslog )

Automation Agent

Sync data toexternal S3 Storage

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Restore functionality15

Services Network

Service Manager

Management Node 1

MMS HTTP Service

Trigger restore executionRestore snapshot

OpsManager 2.0 preview

Management Node 2

Backup Deamon

Download andrestore snapshot

Data Volume

MongoDB Node

MongoDB

Automation Agent

Sync data fromexternal S3 Storage

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Version 2.0(Future concept)

Automation Agent in Docker Container17

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Service Manager

Management Node 1

MMS HTTP Service

Vol. Service. 1

Flocker node

Create new Container/w automation agent

Update config

Flocker API

Agent Docker

Automation Agent(service container)

Vol. Service 4

Vol. Service 3

Vol. Service 2

Vol. Service 1

Attach volume to VM (container)

Get config

Container previewAutomation agent

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Why Containers?

• Less overhead• More efficiency• More flexibility• Move towards generic solution

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Custom Feature Request

• Swisscom and others? as Customer need the following features toimplement the solution:

– Ops Manager Backup/Restore function via API like described in slidesabove

– Official support from MongoDB for containers i.e. Docker– Less hostname dependency

– Supporting ability for service discovery

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Mongo DB onSwisscom TV 2.0

Markus ZehnderMongo DB Days GermanyMunich, October 2015

Swisscom TV 2.0 in brief

• Over 250 channels, including 100 HD channels• Replay available for 7 days on over 250 channels• Record as many programms as you like, even those

Shown in the past• Video Store with subscription option• Over 800k Customers described• “Best Multiscreen TV Service” in 2015

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Swisscom TV 2.0 in the cloud

Access your recordings from any device whenever you like and wherever you are

Secure data in Switzerland

Open and flexible platform

Cloud recordingRecord as many programmes as you like simultaneously

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Requirements

• EPG, VOD, Radio, etc. metadata need to be stored• Pictures are needed as well in the DB• Metadata size > 10GB, Pictures size > 20GB• Data is generally static, but can change several times a day• Amount of devices which will access the data > 1Mio.• DB needs to be highly available

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Why we chose Mongo DB

• Data is unstructured, so hard to store it in a relational DB• It is easy to transform the XML Data(Source) into JSON-Format• Mongo DB is extremly fast in reading data• Open Source• Easy to scale horizontally

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Summary

• Technical View– Data flexibility– Easy to scale horizontally– Error resilient cluster functionality

• Get used to MongoDB – Easy2go installation docs– Great pre-sales/consulting team

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