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Streamlining Fredhopper Cloud Infrastructure Deployment

Simplify and automate deployment processes for diverse environments, removing manual steps and ensuring compatibility with future versions. Enhance infrastructure efficiency and support operations with centralized model and stable API.

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Streamlining Fredhopper Cloud Infrastructure Deployment

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  1. DEPLOYMENT Fredhopper Cloud Infrastructure

  2. Outline • Problem • Approach • “Demo”

  3. The Problem • Multiple products, in different versions • Custom on-premise deployments • Many manual steps for routine operations work • Diverse environments • Hardware differences • Operating Systems and versions • Java VM versions

  4. Approach

  5. Deployment Agent - Concepts • Installation: The ”bits”, factory for instances • Instances: Keeps configuration and index, provides processes • Processes: Daemons/Services/Tools in the context of an instance • Verbs: Primitives for invoking processes

  6. Controller - Concepts • Service: a particular deployment model • Specific to the product • Service Instance: a particular instance of the service, owned by a customer • Triggers: requests from a user for a change • Available triggers depend on service instance

  7. Controller Configuration (1) <service-plans> <load-balancer name="rightscale" factory="com.fredhopper.controller.rightscale.RightScaleLoadBalancerClientFactory"> ... </load-balancer> <installation-directory name="default" directory="/data/distributions" allow-upload="true"/> <service-plan customer="internal"> <service-instance name="dm:dm" installation=“fredhopper-data-manager-1.0.4“ load-balancer="none" factory="com.fredhopper.controller.kitchen.distributed.DataManagerServiceInstanceFactory"/> </service-plan> .. </service-plans>

  8. Controller Configuration (2) <service-plan customer="demo"> <service-instance name="fas:live1" installation="fas-assembly-7.2.0" load-balancer="rightscale“ factory="com.fredhopper.controller.fas.MasterSlaveServiceInstanceFactory"> <property name=“control.dataManagerServiceInstance">dm:dm</property> <property name="ms.masterHasLive">true</property> </service-instance> <service-instance name="suggest:live1" installation="suggest-distribution-2.0" load-balancer="rightscale" factory="com.fredhopper.controller.suggest.SuggestServiceInstanceFactory"> <property name=“suggest.fasServiceInstance">fas:live1</property> </service-instance> </service-plan>

  9. Demo

  10. Deployment Agent - Results & Learnings • Identification of core concepts is key • Removing concepts is hard • Avoid complexity • Versioning and Fail-Fast Behaviors • Detect problems, and report them immediately and clearly • System Identification and “Support for Support” • If something in the higher layers breaks the agent is the last resort for gathering valuable information • Auditing/Logging • Infrastructure components are hard to upgrade • Cannot get enough testing in synthetic and production scenarios • Stable API to ensure compatibility with future versions • Plugins and alternative implementations of core components • UI is important • People want to see that everything is good, ‘no news is good news’ does not work • Complexity in high-level language, not in scripts • Well-known language and environment • Easily testable • Adaptable for new products: installations deliver the glue code, coded against available API

  11. Controller - Results • Also infrastructure glue, Deployment Agent results apply • Concepts, Integration, Extensibility, Testing • Testing is hard: cannot duplicate production environment easily • Software updates are common • New services • Improved deployment models • Must provide real benefit for adoption • Upgrades of service software • Scaling models to reduce costs • Centralized model enables access to the big picture • Support/Operations can solve routine tasks quickly • I/O scaling is needed, CPU is irrelevant: partitioning seems inevitable

  12. Controller - Structure

  13. Trigger Execution Example: FAS Full Data Load

  14. Situation – On-Premise Shoppers Integrators Frontend Monitoring Load-Balancing Integrators FAS Business Users Custom Scripts Integrators Hardware SysAdmins

  15. Situation – Cloud Environment Shoppers Integrators Integrators Business Users Frontend Monitoring Service API Load-Balancing Monitoring Controller Fredhopper FH Operations Deployment Agent Hardware FH Operations

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