Enterprise Java on Microsoft Azure: From Java EE to Spring, we’ve got you covered
- 1. Enterprise Java on Azure From Java EE to Spring and more, we’ve got you covered Ed Burns @edburns Principal Architect Java on Azure Developer Experiences 2019-12
- 2. © Microsoft Corporation • Brief Personal Journey • Ways in Which the Cloud Disrupted Enterprise Software • The War Metaphor • Drill Down and Summary My Plan for Your Time Investment
- 3. Professional Biography Client NCSA Mosaic (1994) SGI Cosmo Web Authoring (1995) Sun Netscape 6 OJI (1999) Server J2EE JSF (2002 - 2019) Oracle Java EE Servlet, JSF, Bean Validation, etc. Microsoft Azure Cloud (2019) Books
- 4. Brief Personal Journey ❑ You must constantly adapt ❑ Not necessarily frequently change jobs ❑ Companies need to adapt too
- 5. Starting on the Client: Birth of a Big Thing Oil and Chemistry Building at University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign Home of NCSA Mosaic First Graphical Web Browser Gratis and Free software Built on prior work really well Ubiquitous (cross platform) Delivered something everyone wanted Easy to author: copy and paste from view source!
- 6. © Microsoft Corporation Cobbles existing things together in an exciting new way. Simplicity: HTTP/1.0, TCP/IP sockets Anyone can add new servers, no need to ask permission. Leverages network effect Dabbling on the Server
- 7. Birth of the Monolith: Spring and J2EE Addressed shared pain points Transparent development process Spring rode the crest of vendor marketing efforts, differentiated with operational excellence J2EE had multi-vendor concept, strong community governance Photo: Les Chatfield
- 8. © Microsoft Corporation My First “War”: Web Frameworks Good variety of “good enough” tools Created a component ecosystem Lots of buzz around this space due to “Web Framework Wars”
- 9. © Microsoft Corporation The Cloud: Birth of Another Big Thing 2004: Sun Utility Computing before it’s time…and at the wrong home
- 10. I’m Ready for the Cloud My response to cloud disruption Get out from inside of the monolith Work with the hosting platform Monolith Microservices Helps enterprises scale
- 11. © Microsoft Corporation Ways the Cloud Disrupted Enterprise Software
- 12. © Microsoft Corporation • On demand • Self-service • Broad network access • Resource pooling • Rapid elasticity • Totally auditable • https://aka.ms/NISTSays Cloud Definition
- 13. © Microsoft Corporation • Networking • Compute • Persistent Storage • Memory • Platform Services Commoditization of All Aspects of IT Infrastructure
- 14. © Microsoft Corporation • Pre-cloud • Buy single license and have people on staff to maintain it • Cloud • Rent software by subscription • Technologies such as HTML5 and Electron have enabled near desktop-parity for software distribution How and who you pay for software
- 15. © Microsoft Corporation • Pre-cloud: install and maintain packages on site • Cloud: • Containerized software How you obtain the software once you've paid for it
- 16. © Microsoft Corporation • Pre-cloud: Your own datacenter • Post-cloud: • Virtualize the datacenter and move it to IaaS How you get access to it
- 17. © Microsoft Corporation Kampf der Giganten
- 21. © Microsoft Corporation Java • Spring • Java EE The Belligerents (Kriegsteilnehmer) Non-Java • Node • Ruby • PHP • .NET • Python
- 22. The Battlefield Your very heart and soul. But seriously, yes. If you're passionate about software, you put at least some part of your heart and soul into it. So the belligerents are fighting over access to that part. Some would call this "mindshare" but I think that's too cold a term.
- 23. © Microsoft Corporation Real Historical Aside http://bit.ly/eisenhower-speech The Military-Industrial Complex The WeaponsMakers Java App Server Vendors • Spring Framework • Tomcat • RedHat • IBM • Bea • Oracle • Sun Non-Java Runtimes • Node • Rails • PHP • IIS Pre-Cloud
- 24. © Microsoft Corporation The Military-Industrial Complex The WeaponsMakers Hardware Providers • Sun • IBM • HP • Dell Network Providers • Cisco • Juniper • Arista • Dell EMC • HPE Major Cloud Vendors • Microsoft • Amazon • Google Secondary or Specialty Cloud Vendors • Oracle • IBM • CloudFoundry Pre-Cloud Cloud (Includes Hybrid)
- 25. © Microsoft Corporation Java EE/Jakarta EE vs. Spring “Wars” I’ve Seen
- 26. © Microsoft Corporation Hibernate -> JPA “Wars” I’ve Seen
- 27. © Microsoft Corporation CDI vs. Spring DI “Wars” I’ve Seen
- 28. © Microsoft Corporation Java Web Framework “Wars” • UI Component Based vs MVC based • All the different web frameworks JSF Tapestry Struts Wicket WebWork “Wars” I’ve Seen Non-Java Web Framework “Wars” • Angular • React • Vue • Ember
- 29. © Microsoft Corporation JAX-RS vs. Spring REST “Wars” I’ve Seen
- 30. © Microsoft Corporation Monolith vs. Microservices “Wars” I’ve Seen
- 31. © Microsoft Corporation • The old belligerents are still here, they just have been absorbed into other entities. • But the cloud providers have now inserted themselves into the fray Enter the Clouds “Allof the Above”
- 32. © Microsoft Corporation From my particular cloud-provider's perspective, we want to be the best place for all of your Java workloads • IaaS to the cloud • Containers • PaaS to the cloud Enter the Clouds “Allof the Above”
- 34. Java on Azure for Wherever You Are in your Cloud Journey Java EE on Azure IaaS Azure Container Instances Azure Kubernetes Service Azure RedHat OpenShift Azure Spring- Cloud Service Azure Functions Azure Stack Azure WildFly PaaS
- 35. © Microsoft Corporation Java EE on Azure with Oracle WebLogic Azure Marketplace Solution for WebLogic Published, maintained and supported by Oracle Based on Oracle Linux 7.6, Oracle JDK and WebLogic 12c R2 (12.2.1.3) Bring your own license Supports common use-cases such as load-balancing and clustering
- 36. © Microsoft Corporation Simple to Start Single fully functional instance of WebLogic Admin only domain Starts admin server systemd configured for automatic restart
- 37. © Microsoft Corporation Clustering Fully functioning clustered multi-node domain User can specify number of nodes Admin server and all managed nodes are started by default when provisioning completes Admin server and node manager are started as systemctl service and CrashRecoveryEnabled is set to true for the node manager so even after a VM reboot servers are restarted automatically User can add nodes later Static and dynamic clustering
- 39. © Microsoft Corporation WebLogic Server on Azure IaaS Script file ARM template Virtual Network Admin Server Public IP Admin Server NIC Admin Sever VM Managed Sever Public IPs Managed Server NICs Managed Server VMs Storage
- 40. © Microsoft Corporation WebLogic Server on Azure IaaS Weblogic DomainMachine Machine Node Manager Admin Server Node Manager Managed Server Managed Server Managed Server Node Manager Managed Server Managed Server Managed Server Dynamic Cluster Scale to ‘n’ Managed Servers
- 41. © Microsoft Corporation WebLogic on Azure IaaS Four Azure Application Offers in the Marketplace • Create a single VM with WebLogic Admin Only domain pre-configured • Create an N-node WebLogic cluster with the admin server on one VM and cluster members on other VMs • Create an N-node WebLogic cluster as in the preceding offer, but with an Azure LoadBalancer automatically configured for the cluster • Create an N-node WebLogic dynamic cluster with the admin server on one VM and managed servers in a Dynamic cluster on the other nodes
- 42. © Microsoft Corporation WebLogic and Coherence on Azure Kubernetes Service Kubernetes: The industry leading orchestrator Portable Public, private, hybrid, multi-cloud Extensible Modular, pluggable, hookable, composable Self-healing Auto-placement, auto-restart, auto-replication, auto-scaling
- 43. © Microsoft Corporation Customer VMs Docker Docker Docker Docker Kubernetes API endpointUser App/workload definition Master Node(s) – self managed API Server etcd store Controller Mgr Cloud Controller Schedule pods over private tunnel How Managed Kubernetes on Azure works Azure managed control plane • Automated upgrades, patches • High reliability and availability • Easy and secure cluster scaling • Self-healing • API server monitoring • Control plane at no charge
- 44. © Microsoft Corporation How WebLogic and Coherence work on Azure Kubernetes Service © Microsoft Corporation Kubectl Kubernetes Kebectl create… Install Domain inputs (yaml) Customer Tenancy WLS Domain Image Operator Image Kubernetes cluster Domain Secrets Operator WebLogic Domain(s) WLS Cluster AS MS MS MSMS MS PVLogs Open Source Helm Charts Open Source Kubernetes Operators • Oracle WebLogic https://aka.ms/wlsoperator • Oracle Coherence https://aka.ms/cohoperator
- 45. © Microsoft Corporation Roadmap Connecting to Oracle DB via OCI Interconnect Integration with Active Directory Distributed logging using managed ELK on Azure Caching using Coherence cluster
- 46. Responsibilities User management Project and quota management Application lifecycle Cluster creation Cluster management Monitoring and logging Network configuration Software and security updates Platform support Customer Microsoft and Red Hat Virtual network Azure DNS Azure Load Balancer (Master) Azure Load Balancer (Router) Public IP Public IP Public IP Azure Active Directory OpenShift API/administration console App 1 App 2 User App definition Azure VMs (Master) Scale sets Azure Premium SSD Managed Disks Node 1 Node 2 Node 3 api-server • controller-manager • etcd Azure VMs (Infrastructure) Scale sets Azure Premium SSD Managed Disks Node 1 Node 2 Node 3 registry • router Azure VMs (Application) Scale sets Azure Premium SSD Managed Disks Node 1 Node 2 Node N application pods Azure Blob Storage OpenShift SDN Node 3 Node 4 Azure Key Vault
- 47. Virtual network Azure DNS Azure Load Balancer (Master) Azure Load Balancer (Router) Public IP Public IP Public IP Azure Active Directory OpenShift API/administration console App 1 App 2 User App definition Azure VMs (Master) Scale sets Azure Premium SSD Managed Disks Node 1 Node 2 Node 3 api-server • controller-manager • etcd Azure VMs (Infrastructure) Scale sets Azure Premium SSD Managed Disks Node 1 Node 2 Node 3 registry • router Azure VMs (Application) Scale sets Azure Premium SSD Managed Disks Node 1 Node 2 Node N application pods Azure Blob Storage OpenShift SDN Node 3 Node 4 Azure Key Vault Responsibilities User management Project and quota management Application lifecycle Cluster creation Cluster management Monitoring and logging Network configuration Software and security updates Platform support Customer Microsoft and Red Hat Microsoft Red Hat
- 48. Middleware + Data services Service catalog Azure and OpenShift self-service OpenShift application lifecycle management Build automation Deployment automation Container ContainerContainer Container Container Container orchestration Cluster services Networking Storage Registry Telemetry Security Container runtime and packaging Red Hat Enterprise Linux Physical infrastructure on Azure Setup, maintenance, and monitoring provided by Red Hat Premium support from Red Hat Hosted in the Azure region of your choice VPN connectivity back to the customer environment Rapidly deploy and scale containerized apps and services An entire OpenShift cluster dedicated to your organization Youfocus onapps MicrosoftandRed Hatfocuson infrastructure
- 49. • High productivity • Fully-managed platform • Highly secure, natively supports SSL Azure App Service
- 50. App Service Web Apps that Scale with your Business • Full capability set available including: - .NET, Node.js, Java, PHP, and Python - WebJobs for long running tasks - Integrated VS publish, remote debug… - CI with GitHub, BitBucket, VSTS - Auto-load balance, Autoscale, Geo DR - Virtual networking and hybrid connections - Site slots for staged deployments
- 51. • Web Sockets - Integrate real-time communication scenarios - SignalR and Socket.io libraries supported • Always On - Keeps your Web App active (warm) - Standard Mode Web App or higher - Recommended if you have Web Jobs • Custom HTTP Handler Mappings • Virtual Applications & Directories Additional Application Settings App Service
- 52. • Retrieve as Environment Variables • Retrieve as Key/Value from ConfigurationManager App Settings and Connection Strings App Service // node.js var value = process.env.APPSETTING_JobServiceUri; var value2 = process.env.SQLAZURECONNSTR_JobDatabase;
- 53. • Log File Targets - File System (Shared Cloud Drive) - Azure Blob Storage • Web Server Log - File System or Azure Blob Storage • Detailed Error Messages • Failed Request Tracing - File System Only Diagnostics Log Files App Service
- 54. • Easy API consumption - Integration with Swagger API metadata - Client SDK code generation (C#, Java, and JavaScript) • Simple Access Control - Easily secure APIs using Azure AD or Social Logins (Facebook, Twitter, Google, Microsoft Account) • Workflow Integration with Azure Logic Apps • First Class Tooling Support - Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code - Maven API Apps App Service
- 55. Spring Boot BUILD ANYTHING Spring Cloud COORDINATE ANYTHING Spring Boot is designed to get you up and running as quickly as possible, with minimal upfront configuration of Spring Spring Cloud provides a set of tools that makes communication between microservices easier Spring based microservices development
- 56. Spring Cloud Apps Spring Cloud ComponentsSpring Cloud Components Cloud ServicesApp Consumers High effort required to manage cloud infrastructure for Spring boot applications Application lifecycle is difficult to manage Painful to troubleshoot application issues Common Challenges
- 57. Azure Spring Cloud A fully managed service for Spring Boot microservices Fully managed Infrastructure Built-in application lifecycle management Ease of monitoring More choices and full integration into Azure’s ecosystem and services Enterprise Ready
- 58. Spring Cloud - Architecture Responsibiliti es DIY with Spring Boot Azure Spring Cloud Service Application iteration, debugging CI/CD Build and manage Clusters Host Spring Cloud Components Monitoring and logging Patching Scaling Support Customer Pivotal Microsoft
- 59. Simplify your cloud infrastructure for Spring boot applications Responsibiliti es DIY with Spring Boot Azure Spring Cloud Service Application iteration, debugging CI/CD Build and manage Clusters Host Spring Cloud Components Monitoring and logging Patching Scaling Support Customer Pivotal Microsoft Microsoft Pivotal. Azure Spring Cloud
- 60. • Simple app lifecycle management • Easily deploy source code or build artifacts • Automatically wire your app with Spring Cloud infrastructure • Integrated CI/CD pipeline for deployment Built-in application lifecycle management
- 61. Monitor your apps Gain insights with Azure monitor Aggregate metrics Identify reliability issues
- 62. Q3 2019 Q4 2019 Q1 2020 Q2 2020 June Limited Private Preview • Application lifecycle management • Config server • Eureka • Manual scaling General Availability • 99.9x SLA • Available in more Azure Regions • Production grade app monitor and diagnostics (e.g. app runtime inspection) • Circuit breaker dashboard • Auto scale • E2E dev experience in IntelliJ … Other features based on customer feedback and market trends (e.g. Enterprise grade security)November Public Preview • Full billing • Customer support October Private Preview public announcement • Additional capabilities in Config server • Azure monitor • Diagnostics • Distributed tracing • Build service • Blue green deployment • Service binding • SSL • UX revamp • Documentation • Deployment experience w/ Maven Roadmap (Calendar Year) • Log streaming • Alerts based on monitoring data • Basic tier • MSI support for Azure resources • Custom domain • Interactive self-diagnostics • Auto patching systems and app runtime • Jenkins integration • VNET Future Candidates • .NET core/Steeltoe • mTLS among customers’ applications • Support certificate for outband traffic (e.g. from app to Data services) • ….
- 63. © Microsoft Corporation • Be willing to adapt and change your focus • The cloud has disrupted everything • Individuals • Businesses • Business models • Don’t get distracted by “Wars” • Find the real value, focus on that • Azure is a great cloud for Java workloads Summary