What's New in Stackato v3.0

What’s New in Stackato v3.0: The Platform for the Agile Enterprise

Phil Whelan

Stackato Developer Evangelist

December 16, 2013

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What is Stackato?

• A secure, stable, and commercially supported Platform-as-a-

Service (PaaS) built with open source components such as

Cloud Foundry and Docker

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Where does Stackato fit in the Cloud Stack?

• Stackato runs on your

cloud infrastructure,

and is the middleware

from which your

applications are

launched

+ others

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How does Stackato Work?

• Simply upload an application and Stackato automatically configures the required language runtimes, frameworks, and data/messaging services

• Administrators can monitor and configure settings, such as user roles, application components, scaling, and memory usage, through the Stackato web interface or command line

Processing

Frameworks Database &

Messaging

Service Web Servers Languages

Auto-Provisioning, Configuration, Scaling of Application Middleware

Storage Network

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Why Enterprises Use Stackato

Faster Time to Market With Stackato, developers can get apps to the cloud in minutes, not weeks.

Greater Security Stackato has been extended and hardened to provide enterprises with tighter security, better compliance, and more control over secure, sensitive data.

Agility and Scalability As usage grows, Stackato scales applications to deliver performance for end-users demand.

Productivity and Innovation Stackato automates the configuration, deployment, and management of applications.

Flexibility Stackato gives developers and IT managers the freedom they need. The polyglot nature of Stackato means you can give your developers the flexibility to work with the best choice of language for any task.

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Stackato v3.0

• Based on Cloud Foundry v2

• All new APIs

• More consistency across APIs

• Better design

• The first commercial Enterprise solution built on-top of

Cloud Foundry v2

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Stackato Re-integration

• Still have Stackato proprietary features on-top of

Cloud Foundry v2

• Log streaming

• TCP/UDP port services for

applications

• ssh into application containers

• LDAP/SSO support

• more…

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Command-line Admin Tools

• kato command-line admin tool

• Upgraded to work with Cloud Foundry v2 components

• Added “kato upgrade” for upgrading VMs

• “stackato” command-line end-user tool

• Upgraded to work with Cloud Foundry v2 components

• Supports all new APIs and CFv2 features

• Support all previous Stackato enhancements

• Still single binary download deployed on VM for Mac, Windows and Linux.

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Web Console

• Still JavaScript based console, but using new

frameworks and technologies

• Much faster and real-time updates

• Activity Stream

• Follow activity of your apps,

spaces and organizations in

real-time

• Start dialog on any event

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Organizations and Spaces

• New concept not available in Cloud Foundry v1

• Replaced Stackato’s “Groups” with this

• Organizations

• Multi-tenancy

• Groups users together

• One Organization cannot

share or see resources of

another Organization

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Organizations and Spaces

• Spaces

• Belongs to an Organization

• One Organization can have many Spaces

• Groups applications

• Applications can move between Spaces

• Example of Spaces may be “Development”, “Testing” and “Production

• Different Users can have different access rights to a Space and hence

different access rights to the applications in that Space

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Backend changes

• Cluster configuration

• Doozerd replaced with Redis

• Internal messaging system

• NATS replaced with gnatsd

• Docker integration

• Stackato LXC containers replaced with Docker containers

• More eyeballs on security from large Docker community

• No functional change to Stackato, yet

• More Docker features exposed in future releases

Download your own

Stackato micro cloud at: www.activestate.com/stackato