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Application environment migration with WebSphere CloudBurst

Preserving the fidelity of application environments through patterns

Dustin Amrhein, Technical Evangelist, IBM
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Dustin Amrhein joined IBM as a member of the development team for WebSphere Application Server. While in that position, Dustin worked on the development of Web services infrastructure and Web services programming models. In addition, Dustin lead the technical effort in the development of a Java RESTful services framework. In his current role, Dustin is a technical evangelist for emerging technologies in IBM’s WebSphere portfolio. His current focus is on WebSphere technologies that deliver cloud computing capabilities, including the WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance.
Ruth Willenborg, Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM
Ruth Willenborg
Ruth Willenborg is a Senior Technical Staff Member in IBM's WebSphere Technology Institute where she is currently working on WebSphere cloud computing and virtual appliance initiatives and is the technical evangelist for the new IBM WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance. Prior to her work on virtualization and appliance initiatives, she was the manager of the WebSphere Performance team responsible for WebSphere Application Server performance analysis, performance benchmarkingm and performance tool development. Ruth has more than 20 years of experience in software development at IBM and is co-author of Performance Analysis for Java Web Sites (Addison-Wesley, 2002) and numerous articles on both WebSphere performance and using WebSphere with virtualization technologies.

Summary:  In this tutorial, the authors demonstrate how to use WebSphere® CloudBurst to build patterns you can use to represent the configuration of both your application and application infrastructure. They also show you how to use these patterns to consistently deploy the application environment as it moves through the four life-cycle stages — development, test, QA, and production. The tutorial offers a complete, step-by-step example of using patterns to handle changing topologies, underlying platform architectures, and configuration properties.

Date:  01 Jun 2010
Level:  Intermediate
PDF:  A4 and Letter (908 KB | 36 pages)Get Adobe® Reader®

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In this tutorial, the authors demonstrate how to use WebSphere® CloudBurst to build patterns you can use to represent the configuration of both your application and application infrastructure. They also show you how to use these patterns to consistently deploy the application environment as it moves through the four life-cycle stages — development, test, quality assurance, and production. The tutorial offers a complete, step-by-step example of using patterns to handle changing topologies, underlying platform architectures, and configuration properties.

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Objectives

Our goal with this tutorial is to:

  • Show you how to use CloudBurst to build patterns that can represent the configuration of your application/application infrastructure.
  • Show you how to use these patterns to deploy the application environment in a consistent manner, regardless of what life cycle stage you're engaging (development, test, QA, production).
  • Make you familiar with these types of patterns so you can use them in similar tasks.

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Prerequisites

The information in this article will be more meaningful to developers with some understanding and experience with the WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance, pattern creation, and cloud computing application development; however, since this tutorial is both about specific steps to build patterns to aid in cloud application/application infrastructure migration and the concepts involved in these tasks, those without specific knowledge of the software products we use can also benefit.

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System requirements

To absorb the concepts we expose in this tutorial, all you need is your good developer brain. However, if you wish to replicate these exercises, you will need access to a WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance with permissions to create catalog content, create patterns, and deploy patterns.

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