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Service Distribution to Any Cloud

Mark Geene @mgeeneVineet Joshi @cloudyvineet

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A cloud services development and integration company that leverages pre-built Elements to accelerate the development of cloud applications on Cloud Foundry

About Cloud Elements

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Elements reduce the cost to integrate, monitor and maintain leading cloud services:- Messaging – SendGrid, Twilio- Documents – Box, Dropbox, Google Drive- Payments – Authorize.net, Paypal, Amazon- SSO – Facebook, GitHub, Google- Social – Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Flickr- CRM – Salesforce.com, SugarCRM

Our Elements

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Documents Hub Example

Element Hubs Provide One-to-Many Integrations

Documents Hub

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Any File API/Service

Your App

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Need to deploy our technology anywhere. Our client’s private, hybrid and public clouds

Independence from technology dependencies such as different runtime containers and versions

Too much time spent managing deployments due to lack of standardization

Our Deployment Challenges

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Design to the PaaS v/s the IaaS Adhere to a strict separation

between layers Select a portable PaaS to facilitate

frictionless distribution to different IaaS endpoints

Anchor services to a runtime available in the PaaS

Deploy as a Custom Service in Cloud Foundry

Our Approach

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1. Design your service using a SOA & RESTful Integration Model

2. Pick from Runtimes and Data Services supported out of the box by Cloud Foundry- Using an non-standard runtime will make your application

less portable to any infrastructure- Using non-standard databases will mean you have to

bundle the DB with your component

Cloud Foundry Custom Service Best Practices

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3. Don’t Use IaaS services/APIs directly- When an IaaS service or API needs to be used,

reference it via a service in the PaaS- Increase your portability to any infrastructure

4. Make your Service Stateless- Allow Cloud Foundry to balance the load across

instances without worrying about state transfer- Allow Cloud Foundry to add/remove instances as

required

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5. Leverage the built-in Cloud Foundry Security v/s using a non-standard, custom implementation in your service- Cloud Foundry’s UAA provides OAuth 2.0 security, which

is becoming the de-facto standard for single-sign on and ID management

6. Manage releases and deployment via BOSH- We started with vcap, but migrated to BOSH- Allows you to use a standard deployment model- Reduce your DevOps cost by leveraging BOSH

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7. Leverage Cloud Foundry Custom Services to facilitate Self-Service - Distribute your Custom Service via a Marketplace- Provide self-service provisioning APIs- Leverage Cloud Foundry to allow your customers to

manage scale- Leverage Cloud Foundry for service monitoring

Cloud Foundry Custom Service Best Practices

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30% Savings across development budget Deploy in hours to new IaaS environments

and private clouds v/s weeks Significant improvement in monitoring,

maintenance and support Expect increased savings with new Custom

Services approach in 2.0

Results

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Cloud Elementswww.cloud-elements.com

Mark Geene @mgeeneVineet Joshi @cloudyvineet

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