Well-Architected SaaS on Cloud Foundry
Victor Ionescu
Lead IT Consultant | Technical Guidance Unit @ msg systems Romania
Software-as-a-Service
the WHAT && the WHY
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Customer
("subscriber")
Customer
("subscriber")
"Software-as-a-Service"
Vendor
("provider")
subscribes to
subscribes to
manages
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Customer
("subscriber")
"Software-as-a-Service"
subscribes to
The "WHY" for Subscribers
- No upfront investments
- Predictable costs using pay-per-use model
- No lengthy implementation project
- Fast on- (and off-)boarding
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"Software-as-a-Service"
The "WHY" for Providers
- all customers on the same software version
- 1 single active release to maintain
- Ship features fast, directly to production
Vendor
("provider")
manages
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Building a multitenant SaaS
Challanges and how to address them
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Choosing a Platform
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CaaS, PaaS, FaaS. K8s, CF and others..
Infrastructure
App
Cloud Native Application Blueprint
Container Orchestration
Container
Security
Runtime
App
Container
Runtime
Network
Services
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Infrastructure
App
Container Orchestration
Container
Security
Runtime
App
Container
Runtime
Network
Services
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Compute, Storage
Subnets,
Public/Private Network
Configure Routing
Database
Configure
Monitoring, Tracing, Logging
Run, Check, Scale
Messaging
"Overhead"
App
Container
Runtime
Value
Authentication & Authorization
Day 2 Operations
Monitor,
Patch,
Upgrade
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-- Commoditization of Containers
Infrastructure
App
Container Orchestration
Container
Security
Runtime
CaaS
Network
Services
Dev/Ops
Overhead
Value
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Infrastructure
Container Orchestration
Container
Security
Runtime
PaaS
Network
Container
Runtime
Security
Network
Services
App
Dev/Ops
Overhead
Value
adds:
- Services
- Networking
- Container from Code (opt.)
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Infrastructure
Container Orchestration
Container
Runtime
FaaS
Container
Runtime
Security
Network
Services
Eventing
Func
Func
Func
Func
Func
Func
Func
Func
Dev/Ops
Eventing
Overhead
Value
- Eventing (native)
- Focus on pure Value
- Ecosystem maturity!
!!
simple,
but opinionated
flexible,
but complex
cf push nodeapp --hostname webapi
cf bind-service nodeapp postgres_db
Node.JS sources
Node.JS sources
App Container
Pod
Postgres
PersistentVolume
ConfigMap
Pod
Service
Ingress
kubectl apply -f ...ivictor88
- Container Management Platform and much more
- Hides the complexities of the underlying infrastructure
- Deploys applications to containers and manages their operation throughout the entire application lifecycle
app.
CloudFoundry
deploy
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CF Buildpacks & Routing
Detecting buildpack:
staticfile_buildpack..
java_buildpack..
nodejs_buildpack..
ruby_buildpack.. MATCHED!app.
Buildpack detection
Router
CF Service Brokers
Service Brokers
Distributed Cache
Database
Messaging
...
iRE Cloud on SAP Cloud Foundry
- Architecting for Scale and Resilience -
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12factor microservices
- decoupled lifecycle
- independently scalable
event based comm.
circuit breakers
- resilience
- eventual consistency
Handling Multitenancy
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Tenant 1
Tenant 2
"Software-as-a-Service"
Multitenancy
Tenant isolation levels:
- Security
- Persistence
- Connectivity
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"Software-as-a-Service"
subscribes to
subscribes to
Customer account
- SaaS runtime environment
- Platform services (DB, messaging, ..)
- Users and Roles, IdP
- On-Premise Connectivity
Customer account
- Users and Roles, IdP
- On-Premise Connectivity
Provider account
Multitenancy on SAP Cloud Platform
Handling multitenancy on application level
GET https://ire-prod-<tenant identifier>.cfapps.....
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Thank You for your attention!
ionescuv.github.io
@ivictor88
Victor Ionescu
msg systems, Technical Guidance Unit
Well-architected SaaS on Cloud Foundry
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