An introduction to Apache Brooklyn

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Apache Brooklyn

• What is Brooklyn ?
• Why is it important ?
• How does it work ?
• What are Blueprints ?
• Integration
• Books

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Brooklyn What is it ?

• A release management system
• Cloud agnostic
• Open sourced via Apache
• Model system using Blueprints / YAML
• Deploy to cloud / cluster via Brooklyn GUI
• Monitor via Brooklyn
• Built in applications library and release target
  types

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Brooklyn Why is it important ?

• It is cloud agnostic
• Many cloud providers supported
• It has a library of standard applications
• It is Apache open sourced
• It has community support
• It will reduce your release complexity
• Your release becomes a change control item

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Brooklyn How does it work ?

• Model your release via Blueprints
• Using Brooklyn GUI
• Add in standard applications
• Describe architecture
• Cluster structure
• Add scripting / dependencies
• Define install locations / extensions
• Add policy metrics
• Next define install targets and deploy
• Finally monitor installs

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Brooklyn Example blueprint
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Brooklyn Example GUI
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Brooklyn Integration

• How can Brooklyn be integrated into a big data
  system ?
• Apache Spark for processing
• Hadoop or NoSQL for storage
• Mesos / Mesosphere for resource management
• Brooklyn for release mgmt and monitoring
• What we need is a fully integrated big data
  stack
• Fully tested like Big Top
• Integrated with Hadoop / NoSQL's
• Tuned for Analytics and Internet of Things ( IoT )

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Available Books

• See Big Data Made Easy
• Apress / Springer Jan 2015
• See Mastering Apache Spark
• Packt Oct 2015

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