1. Tales from CICD for vR Suite Daniele Ulrich
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Tales from CICD for vR Suite Daniele Ulrich
June 9, 2017

2. Enterprise Cloud – High Level Architecture
Swisscom Portal
IAM (Identity federation)
One IDB (OpenAM)
IDP1
IDP2
Security Proxy Layer
vROperations (Monitoring, Metering)
vRealize Automation (Tenants, Catalogue, Services, Automation)
Multi-Tenancy with single instance
CRM/Billing
ITSM (BMC Remedy)
NDS
DWH
Logging (vR Log Insight, Splunk)
vRealize Orchestration (Orchestration, Workflows, BPO)
Billing Records
ITSM Sync
Tales from CICD for vRA
Standard Workflows
BPO
Impact Mgmt …
vSphere and NSX (Hypervisor, Network virtualization)
Brokerage Endpoints
AWS
Azure
Supporting Services
NTP
DNS
IPAM …
Infrastructure (VxBlock, VIPR, Vmax/Vplex, Networker)
CICD (Concourse, Houdini, GitHub, Artifactory…)

3. Domains and Assets for Configuration Management
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Continuous Security!
Tales from CICD for vRA

4. Checklist Converged Blueprints
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Converged Blueprints
Software Components (together with scripts and needed binaries)
XaaS Resource Actions (day 2 actions for a service!)
XaaS Resource Types
Property Groups, Definitions and Values (on environment, tenant and businessgroup level)
Event Broker Subscriptions
Reservation Policies (placement, location, DRS)
Storage Policies (quality, placement, location, DRS)
vCenter Templates (provider and customer individual!)
NSX assets: Networks, NetworkProfiles (IPAM), SecurityTags, SecurityGroups, SecurityPolicies
vRO service workflows (i.e for custom forms and XaaS resource actions)
vROps settings (not tested, yet)
Entitlements (is this possible?)
Continuous Security!
Tales from CICD for vRA

5. Design Goals Everything as code, versioned in GIT
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Everything as code, versioned in GIT
A catalog is the desired service provider offering per tenant (tracked in GIT) and consists of services
A service is a product category as used in vRA catalog
A catalog item is any type of blueprint that can be offered when entitled in vRA
A product contains one or more catalog items together with XaaS Resource Actions and other dependencies.
Sticking as close as possible to VMware standards
Project USB to SDDC
A Wish List for Configuration Management with the vRealize Suite
Tales from Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery for VMware vRealize Suite
Continuous Security!
Tales from CICD for vRA

6. Development Environment Tenant per Squad/Feature
Tales from CICD for vRA

7. CICD Concept Continuous Security! dd/mm/yyyy 09.06.2017
Tales from CICD for vRA

8. Seamless CI/CD over all stages
vRO content pipeline
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Seamless CI/CD over all stages
GIT 2
Concourse.ci
Concourse.ci 6
Master 3 4 5
Branch Topic A
Branch Topic B
Houdini 7 8
DEV 1
INT
PRD
Topic A Environment
<Development>
Topic B Environment
<Development>
Master
Environment
<Integration> …
Environment
<Integration>
Environment
<Production>
Environment
<Development>
Environment
<Development>
Portal / API
Portal / API
Portal / API
Portal / API
Portal / API
Continuous Security!
Tales from CICD for vRA
Microservice
Microservice
Microservice
Microservice
Microservice
vRA
vRA
Templates
Blueprints
Pipelines
Properties
vRA
Templates
Blueprints
Pipelines
Properties
Templates
Templates
Templates
Blueprints
Blueprints
Blueprints
Pipelines
Pipelines
Pipelines
Properties
Properties
Properties
vRO
Workflows
Plugins
vRO
Workflows
Plugins
vRO
Workflows
Plugins
vRO
Workflows
Plugins
vRO
Workflows
Plugins

9. Seamless CI/CD over all stages
vRA content pipeline
Seamless CI/CD over all stages
GIT 2
Concourse.ci
Concourse.ci 6
Master 3 4 5
Branch Topic A
Branch Topic B
Houdini 7 8
DEV 1
INT
PRD
Topic A Environment
<Development>
Topic B Environment
<Development>
Master
Environment
<Integration>
Environment
<Integration>
Environment
<Production>
Environment
<Development>
Environment
<Development>
Portal / API
Portal / API
Portal / API
Portal / API
Portal / API
Tales from CICD for vRA
Microservice
Microservice
Microservice
Microservice
Microservice
vRA
vRA
Templates
Blueprints
Pipelines
Properties
vRA
Templates
Blueprints
Pipelines
Properties
Templates
Templates
Templates …
Blueprints
Blueprints
Blueprints
Pipelines
Pipelines
Pipelines
Properties
Properties
Properties
vRO
Workflows
Plugins
vRO
Workflows
Plugins
vRO
Workflows
Plugins
vRO
Workflows
Plugins
vRO
Workflows
Plugins

10. AppCloud components pipeline
Seamless CI/CD over all stages
GIT 2
Concourse.ci
Concourse.ci 6 7
Master 3 5 4
Branch Topic A
Branch Topic B
DEV 1
INT
PRD
Topic A Environment
<Development>
Topic B Environment
<Development>
Master
Environment
<Integration>
Environment
<Integration>
Environment
<Production>
Environment
<Development>
Environment
<Development>
cloud native
Portal / API
Portal / API
Portal / API
Portal / API
Portal / API
Tales from CICD for vRA
Microservice
Microservice
Microservice
Microservice
Microservice
vRA
vRA
Templates
Blueprints
Pipelines
Properties
vRA
Templates
Blueprints
Pipelines
Properties
Templates
Templates
Templates
Blueprints
Blueprints …
Blueprints
Pipelines
Pipelines
Pipelines
Properties
Properties
Properties
vRO
Workflows
Plugins
vRO
Workflows
Plugins
vRO
Workflows
Plugins
vRO
Workflows
Plugins
vRO
Workflows
Plugins

11. Pipelining
Tales from CICD for vRA

12. VPN Access: it is not this easy to access the content server
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VPN Access: it is not this easy to access the content server
Tales from CICD for vRA

13. dd/mm/yyyy
Thank

14. We are hiring! Strong systems engineering & operations experience
Experience with vROps/vRLI, logging/monitoring in general
Automation experience (Concourse, Puppet, etc.)
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