Welcome to the Cloud Computing Applications course, the first part of a two-course series designed to give you a comprehensive view on the world of Cloud Computing and Big Data! In this first course we cover a multitude of technologies that comprise the modern concept of cloud computing. Cloud computing is an information technology revolution that has just started to impact many enterprise computing systems in major ways, and it will change the face of computing in the years to come. We start the first week by introducing some major concepts in cloud computing, the economics foundations of it and we introduce the concept of big data. We also cover the concept of software defined architectures, and how virtualization results in cloud infrastructure and how cloud service providers organize their offerings. In week two, we cover virtualization and containers with deeper focus, including lectures on Docker, JVM and Kubernates. We finish up week two by comparing the infrastructure as a service offering by the big three: Amazon, Google and Microsoft. Week three moves to higher level of cloud offering, including platform as a service, mobile backend as a service and even serverless architectures. We also talk about some of the cloud middleware technologies that are fundamental to cloud based applications such as RPC and REST, JSON and load balancing. Week three also covers metal as a service (MaaS), where physical machines are provisioned in a cloud environment. Week four introduces higher level cloud services with special focus on cloud storage services. We introduce Hive, HDFS and Ceph as pure Big Data Storage and file systems, and move on to cloud object storage systems, virtual hard drives and virtual archival storage options. As discussion on Dropbox cloud solution wraps up week 4 and the course.
1.2.1 Software Defined Architecture
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Cloud Computing Applications, Part 1: Cloud Systems and Infrastructure
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Cours 3 sur 6 dans Specialization Cloud Computing
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Module 1: Introduction to Cloud Computing
Welcome to the first module of the course! In this module, we will introduce the concept of cloud computing and the economical foundations that make cloud computing make sense. We then introduce some fundamental concepts including software defined architectures and cloud services. We end the module by introducing you to the low level cloud computing service offered, infrastructure as a service.
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Roy H. CampbellProfessor of Computer Science
Department of Computer Science
Reza FarivarData Engineering Manager at Capital One, Adjunct Research Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Department of Computer Science
[SOUND] Welcome
to this lesson on software defined architectures.
In this lesson,
what we're going to learn is how to actually create services, use services.
You're going to end up producing a web server that can scale.
But to begin with, let's talk about how services are created,
how services can control other services, and
then how that's all put together in the principal
architectural components of a cloud and how they interact.
There's going to be a framework in architecture to do all this.
That's what we're going to be talking about this time.
And that leads into just how do you then use this framework,
this orchestration of services to build things like infrastructures as a service,
platforms as a service, software as a service.
So, at the end of this lecture,you should be able to go in and
you should be able to construct a service, a platform as a service system.
And the actual machine problem that you're
going to be working on is to build web services which scale.
So, this all gets around to what Gartner and
a lot of other people are now calling software defined architectures.
Rather than sort of lead you historically to where we're at,
we're going to leap right in.
So, a software defined architecture actually provides a facility for
providing services complete with orchestration and provisioning,
and this is all layered in a sort of structure that can be replicated.
And later on what we'll find is that you can apply software defined architectures
to pretty much anything.
We're going to talk about networks.
We're going to talk about storage.
We're going to talk about compute.
But people are talking about software defined architectures for cities.
So, the cloud itself provides services.
It has to have a way for the customers to control those services.
And so, you're going to have to have some mechanism to actually manage those
services through the interface into the cloud.
And that's called service orchestration.
It's going to have to have provisioning,
the signing services to individual machines.
And it's got to have interfaces that allow people to manage that connection.
We said clouds must provide these different
infrastructures IAAS, PAAS, SAAS.
They've got to have both internal and
external application programming interfaces.
They need external ones for the customer, for
the person accessing the cloud remotely.
And they have to have internal ones.
If you run a software system on your cloud that software
has to talk to the pieces of cloud internally.
So, you need APIs, both externally and internally.
And some of these services will be, actually,
the service you intend to provide, and some of them will
be the management services that you need to control those first set of services.
So, the mechanisms and concepts of providing service orchestration and
provisioning is called a software defined architecture.
And you're going to find that Clouds,
they will contain other software defined entities.
And we've just referred to them earlier that you are going to see
that the future of the Cloud is sort of building on software defined networks,
software defined storage, and software defined compute.
So, here's a pretty picture,
which outlines just the sort of complexities we've got.
What you see there is that there's an application development and
there's IT infrastructure operations, there's business process operations,
and they're all going on concurrently into the Cloud.
You see that we have a multiple level of different services being provided.
It's very difficult to build up to say, software as a service,
if you can't manage the hardware.
So, it's likely you're going to to have infrastructure as a service.
It's likely, you're going to put operating systems and other sorts
of systems on top to make it easier to use, which would be platform as a service.
And it's likely that you're going to want to put software on top of that.
So, it's going to be like a cake with layers, right?
Each layer providing a different level of services.
Sometimes, those layers will be providing service like this
IaaS will be providing service to the next level up and
sometimes that layer will be providing service to the next layer up too.
Sometimes, you'll expose IaaS to the customer and
allow that customer to get infrastructure as a service.
That's the layers of the cake.
There has to be, first of all, mechanisms to actually use that system.
So, you need APIs for your apps and your scenarios,
your providing mail services, whatever.
There has to be APIs to do this, and that's, well,
we've loosely called that business process operations in this diagram.
At another level, the customer has to be able to produce those services
refine them, develop them and then sell them to whoever its customers are.
So, you need to be able to develop, test, manage, control usage.
Build scenarios of that use and that's the application development.
You need interfaces to be able to help the customer do that.
Down here the customer is going to need to control the resources,
deploy, manage if he wants to scale things.
Also the Cloud provider himself may need to
develop tests and deploy his infrastructures.
And so, you have different APIs corresponding to
the different places where you need to be able to do
the control plus the actual services you're offering.
All of that is called orchestration.
The Cloud service orchestration allows you to compose the architecture,
has tools and processes used by humans to deliver a defined service.
Allows you to stitch the software together, the hardware components
together to actually provide a defined service, connects and
automates all the workflows going through that complicated Cloud structure.
So that when you request a cloud, let's suppose you request a webpage to a cloud,
you are going to get routed through the cloud to the right web server,
and it's going to respond back to you.
Connecting that workflow together is part of orchestration,
and it has to be set up by someone.
When I want to scale up my web service, then orchestration will allow me to
do that, bringing on new hardware and providing new routes through the system,
providing duplicate web pages, so that I can serve a larger number of web requests.
And you'll see that when you do up down scaling, it can have different effects.
if you're doing billing, you're doing assurance on QOS,
each of these may impact those effects and they need to be controlled.
So, we need a structure.
What sort of structure should we have?
And this is where Cloud computing is moving
the direction we're going at the moment.
We are defining things called software defined architectures.
And the key part to the software defined architecture, first of all,
it provides services.
But those services are completely abstract.
They might be providing the user his application.
They might be providing the service provider
some way to control what his service is.
And there might be some part of it allowing the Cloud provider to control
the allocation of resources and the smooth operations,
the maintenance, and so on, of that Cloud system.
All of those come in through APIs, and because of the complexity of all of this,
because you want customers just to know about their particular piece of the Cloud,
and you'd like the Cloud providers to know about all of the Cloud.
What we do is to employ virtualization and access control to
actually give them those abstractions so they can manage it.
Then, underneath that layer, there's Service Logic, to provide the services.
There's Provider Logic and there's Cloud Logic,
all trying to provide different aspects of the totality of what the Cloud offers.
A middle ware layer offers that type of infrastructure,
and its design we will touch upon in this course, but
not delve too deeply because we are really concerned with applications.
The middle ware matches all these services with the hardware,
software, and data that's on the system.
Now, you notice over the side of here there's two boxes, control and resources.
The Cloud provider is going to actually offer control,
provide resource allocation and access control.
And he does that through software designed to do that.
And that's going to interact with mechanisms to actually allocate
the resources.
So, that's my overall software defined architecture.
Now, that's very abstract, and I apologize for
that, what we're going to talk about is some concrete examples of this, and
we're going to finish up with you actually programming one of these.
So, let's look at a data center.
A software-defined data center.
Example of an architecture.
You have your users doing applications, and
those applications will go in through a portal that
offers all the different services, the APIs.
Those APIs will split up the requests into different types of requests.
It will be, oh, this particular request requires so much network,
requires access to the storage, requires this compute.
Well, the portal divides these things up into tasks associated with the network,
associated with the storage, and associated with the compute, but
the user doesn't know anything about the real hardware.
So, these are all virtualized.
You're going to have, underlying this, controls and
schedulers to actually allocate the resources and
to orderly progress through the tasks that have been assigned.
Those in turn will end up talking to the actual hardware provided by
the data center, the network, the storage, and the computer.
Somewhere in there, those two boxes on the right on the previous diagram,
there's a lot of automation going on, and that is going to be the middle ware.
That is going to be the software that allows Clouds
to actually serve all the customers.
So today, what we've learned about is software defined architectures.
What we need to do is to tackle this question that's the reason about
virtualization.
It's a key abstraction in building software defined architectures, and
it's a key abstraction in actually building the first ever Clouds.
We're going to learn what software defined networks are,
what software defined storage is, what software defined compute is.
And we're going to relate that to the Clouds and
talk about it all in terms of virtualization.
Then, and very importantly, we need to get you some
practical experience of building an example.
So, we're going to just take a simple web service,
map it onto a data center, and allow you to scale it using load
balancing to send web requests to the appropriate services.
So, after that lesson, what you're going to learn, or
what you're going to be able to do, is actually build your own type
of system on a software defined architecture whether it's Amazon,
whether it's Google, or whether it's OpenStack.
After that, we're going to look through, or in this particular lesson,
we're going to look through exactly what does infrastructure as a service mean.
Because clearly you gotta start somewhere allocating machines,
and building services on top of those machines is a good place to focus.
We're going to move up that sort of software stack and
look at some of the middle ware.
And there, we're going to be looking at Mirantis and OpenStack as examples.
We are going to learn how they actually orchestrate,
how they provide views into the systems through dashboards.
We are going to see how they are controlled, and
how they control the Cloud itself.
And by the end of this lesson, you will have an appreciation
of how systems are structured with these abstractions and
with orchestration using all these tools.
So, that now, when we finish this lesson,
we'll be able to launch into some examples of applications.
We're going to be doing MapReduce as the next module.
But first, let's just move on to virtualization and
think about how does virtualization support this idea
we've got of software defined architecture.
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