Skycon 2012 - Public, private, and hybrid; software, platform, and infrastructure. This talk will discuss the current state of the Platform-as-a-Service space, and why the keys to success lie in enabling developer productivity, and providing openness and choice. Thanks to Tony Whitmore for the audio and to Patrick Chanezon for some pieces of the content.

1. Breaking through the Andy Piper
clouds @andypiper

2. Hello I’m Andy

3. Developer Advocate @ Cloud Foundry
social web enthusiast
maker, educator, LEGO fan
OSS supporter / contributor
Eclipse Committer (Paho / MQTT)
excited by “what’s next”, Internet of Things, etc.
@andypiper
apiper@vmware.com
a few things about me

4. openness, cloud computing,
3 themes to consider and where they intersect

5. 1. Why be / do / think Open?
2. What about Cloud?
3. Why is an Open Cloud Platform important?

6. 1. Why be / do / think Open?

7. From:&torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI
Newsgroups:&comp.os.minix
Date:&25&Aug&91&20:57:08&GMT
Organization:&University&of&Helsinki
Hello everybody out
there using minix -
1991
I’m doing a (free)
An important year in software operating system
(just a hobby,
won’t be big and
professional like
gnu) for 386(486)
AT clones.

8. 21 years later: Linux has won

9. (even old versions, on crashy
Linux runs everywhere airline entertainment systems...)

10. It runs on Windows Azure! Jun 2012, w. Canonical

12. The Penguin is
(maybe not this one…)
triumphant!

13. Linux is ubiquitous
(but mostly invisible)

14. It works.

15. 2. What about Cloud?

16. 29% an actual cloud
51% believe affected
by weather
54% say they never
use (but 95% turn out
to do so)
20% pretend to know
...
16% know it means
computer services
68% say it’s good,
when explained...
What the heck is
Citrix study (1,006 person survey)
“The Cloud”?

18. Software
Platform
Infrastructure
3 layers IaaS, PaaS, SaaS

19. Gmail, Salesforce,
Software Flickr, Google Docs...
Platform
Infrastructure
3 layers IaaS, PaaS, SaaS

20. Gmail, Salesforce,
Software Flickr, Google Docs...
Platform
Amazon EC2, Google CE,
OpenStack, vSphere,
Infrastructure Joyent, Rackspace, Cloud
Stack, Eucalyptus...
3 layers IaaS, PaaS, SaaS

21. Gmail, Salesforce,
Software Flickr, Google Docs...
Google AppEngine,
Heroku, Cloud Foundry,
Platform OpenShift, Apprenda...
Amazon EC2, Google CE,
OpenStack, vSphere,
Infrastructure Joyent, Rackspace, Cloud
Stack, Eucalyptus...
3 layers IaaS, PaaS, SaaS

22. How did we get here?

23. Infrastructure Clouds
- consumer web companies built out according to
their own needs to support Software

24. But - still need to build
& manage Platform

25. Google AppEngine,
Heroku, Cloud Foundry,
OpenShift, Uhuru,
Cloudbees, AppFog,
Amazon Elastic Beanstalk,
Apprenda...

26. (pause)

27. KITTEH BREAK!

29. 3. Why is an Open Cloud Platform important?

30. Platform risk: lock-in
Welcome to the Hotel California
Such a lovely place
Such a lovely face
Plenty of room at the Hotel California
Any time of year, you can find it here
Last thing I remember, I was
Running for the door
I had to find the passage back
To the place I was before
‘Relax,’ said the night man,
‘We are programmed to receive.
You can checkout any time you like,
But you can never leave!’

31. Cloud Foundry - the Open PaaS
OSS community
vFabric
Postgres
Private
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Ap
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Data Services
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vFabric
Public
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RabbitMQTM
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Msg Services
Clouds
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ce
Cl
Other Micro
Services
Clouds
Additional partners services …

32. All about Choice
Build your own from
Private cloudfoundry.org, run
Clouds a private distro like
ActiveState
Run on cloudfoundry.com
Public or any Cloud Foundry-
Clouds powered PaaS like
AppFog
Run in a local virtual
Micro
machine with identical
Clouds services and runtimes

33. cloudfoundry.com multi-tenant PaaS
cloudfoundry.com (beta)
Runtimes & Frameworks
Services
vCenter / vSphere
Infrastructure

34. All the pieces to make “if you can’t open it, you
your own! don’t own it” (O’Reilly MAKE)

35. cloudfoundry.org community project
cloudfoundry.org
Your Infrastructure
Download Setup Setup Deploy Behind
Code Environment Scripts Firewall
Cloud
Apache2 Foundry
license BOSH

36. Micro Cloud Foundry - downloadable PaaS
Micro Cloud Foundry
Runtimes & Frameworks
Services
Your Laptop/PC
Single VM instance of
Cloud Foundry
that runs on developer’s
machine (Linux, Mac, Win)

37. “We really are
Steve Herrod
aspiring for this
CTO, VMware, 11 April 2012 to be the Linux
of the cloud.”

38. Open & public from the start cloudfoundry.org and Github

39. Open Source… FTW! extensible and flexible

40. Open Source… FTW! extensible and flexible

41. Partners building new multi-OS, multi-IaaS, multi-
tools and integrations language... multi-cloud

42. All about the ecosystem

43. “Let a thousand <open> -- Patrick Chanezon @chanezon,
clouds bloom” VMware Cloud Foundry

44. Connect
http://twitter.com/andypiper
http://andypiper.co.uk
http://slideshare.net/andypiper

45. Image credits
• Happy Tux http://igloo.crystalxp.net/ZeNDaMs
• Signpost http://www.flickr.com/photos/16002150@N08/2006266695/
• Other images are author’s own, or royalty-free and CC-licensed works
from Wikimedia Commons
• Thanks to Patrick Chanezon for some content