Pivotal Cloud Platform Roadshow Workshop Kit

Workshop kit containing content for the Pivotal Cloud Platform Roadshow (http://www.pivotal.io/cloud-platform-roadshow/).

Workshop Flow

The workshop was originally delivered on the last day of the UberConf show. That day is broken into four 90-minute sessions, with two 15-minute coffee breaks and a lunch break of 1 hour 15 minutes.

The schedule has been altered to fit the PCP Roadshow format, with 75-minute sessions. It also accomodates two keynotes:

8:30 - 9:00 AM

Registration/Breakfast/Coffee

9:00 - 10:00 AM

Morning Keynote

10:00 - 10:15 AM

Coffee Break

10:15 - 11:30 AM

Session #1 - The Developer Experience

11:30 - 11:45 AM

Coffee Break

11:45 - 1:00 PM

Session #2 - Architecture and Operations

1:00 - 2:30 PM

Lunch and Keynote

2:30 - 2:45 PM

Coffee Break

2:45 - 4:00 PM

Session #3 - Enabling Continuous Delivery

4:00 - 4:15 PM

Coffee Break

4:15 - 5:30 PM

Session #4 - Custom Buildpacks and Data Services

The sessions are as follows:

1. The Developer Experience

   This workshop introduces the business why'' of Cloud Foundry with a nod to Microservices architectures. It then takes the developer through a hands-on day in the life'' experience of interacting with Pivotal Web Services:

   Target My Cloud Foundry Provider

   walkthrough of PWS registration, download CF CLI, target/login.

   Push My App

   push the Spring Music application, high-level talk through of app push/stage/deploy.

   Bind My App to Backing Services

   bind Spring Music to an ElephantSQL PostgreSQL database, high-level talk through of service creation/binding, explain VCAP_SERVICES, point to Spring Cloud.

   Scale My App

   push cf-scale-boot application, scale up, scale down, high-level talk through of dynamic routing.

   Monitor My App’s Logs

   tail cf-scale-boot logs, high-level discussion of loggregator.

   Monitor My App’s Health

   hit the ``kill switch'' in cf-scale-boot, watch the events in the logs, show cf events, watch the app restart, high-level talk through of health manager.

   Monitor My App’s Performance

   bind to New Relic service, re-push application, high-level discussion of NR agent fetching via BP, poke around in NR interface.

2. Architecture and Operations

   The primary goals of this session are to:

   • Do a deep dive into the CF architecture via animated slides illustrating push, stage, deploy, scale, and health management.

   • Also do a brief dive into BOSH, including why BOSH, what it is, and animations of how it works. It’s not an operations focused workshop, so we keep the treatment light.

   • Discuss the value adds to CF BOSH OSS that Pivotal brings through the Pivotal Ops Manager product and our associated ecosystem of data and mobile services.

   • Quickly prove that I can push an app to a Pivotal CF environment running on vCHS in the same exact way I can push an app to PWS.

3. Enabling Continuous Delivery

   The primary goals of this session are to:

   • Give a brief, platform-agnostic overview of the why'' and what'' of Continuous Delivery. The purpose is to simply educate the student and bring everyone to the same level.

   • Explain how Cloud Foundry benefits Continuous Delivery.

   • Provide a hands-on lab experience where the student takes a Spring Boot microservice application and builds a continuous delivery pipeline for it using Jenkins, Artifactory, and Cloud Foundry. This is all done using free trial SaaS versions of the software.

4. Custom Buildpacks and Data Services

   The primary goals of this session are to:

   • Give an overview of the extension points available to Cloud Foundry users.

   • Provide a buildpack overview with a deep focus on the Java buildpack (my target audience has been Java conferences)

   • Provide an overview of service options, from user-provided to managed services, including an overview of the V2 Service Broker API.

   • Provide two hands-on lab experiences:

     • Java Buildpack Extension

       • via customization (add a new framework component)

       • via configuration (upgrade to Java 8)

     • Service Broker Development/Management

       • deploy a service broker for ``HashMap as a Service (HaaSh).'' Register the broker, make the plan public.

       • create an instance of the HaaSh service

       • deploy a client app, bind to the service, and test it

Contents

So far this consists of:

• this README

• a prerequisites doc

• the slides (in Keynote format)

• the labs

  • Continuous Delivery Hands-On Lab

  • Buildpacks Hands-On Lab

  • Service Brokers Hands-On Lab

It also references the following additional sample app GitHub repositories (most of which are housed under the cf-platform-eng organization, but there are a few exceptions):

• Spring Music Sample Application

• CF Scale Boot Sample Application

• Current Sample App for CD Lab

• haash-broker: Sample Service Broker App

• haash-client: Sample Client for haash-broker

TODO’s

• Ensure that no special fonts appear in Keynote decks. If they do, vectorize into images.

• Determine license for the content. I would like to use CC BY-SA 4.0, but some of the slides in the decks are derivatives of slides from decks carrying the Pivotal copyright.

• Find a more ``proper'' example app repo to use for the continuous delivery lab. Probably this, but will require a couple of small modifications.

• Add a smoke test'' and promotion'' step to the continuous delivery lab.