<script type="IN/MemberProfile" data-id="http://www.linkedin.com/in/mheath" data-format="hover"  data-text="Mike Heath" data-related="false"></script><script type="IN/MemberProfile" data-id="http://www.linkedin.com/in/mheath" data-format="hover"  data-text="Mike Heath" data-related="false"></script><script type="IN/MemberProfile" data-id="http://www.linkedin.com/in/mheath" data-format="hover"  data-text="Mike Heath" data-related="false"></script>{"id":3063,"date":"2015-07-08T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/?p=3063"},"modified":"2024-08-27T07:36:04","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T04:36:04","slug":"lds-church-deploys-200-apps-with-cloud-foundry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/lds-church-deploys-200-apps-with-cloud-foundry\/","title":{"rendered":"LDS Church Deploys 200+ Apps with Cloud Foundry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(<strong>Note:<\/strong> This use case is based on presentations by <!-- Linkedin Profile Badge: http:\/\/3doordigital.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/linkedin-profile-badge\/ -->\r\n<script type=\"IN\/MemberProfile\" data-id=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mheath\" data-format=\"hover\"  data-text=\"Mike Heath\" data-related=\"false\"><\/script>, Principal Software Engineer, LDS Church.)<\/p>\n<p>The LDS Church, based in Salt Lake City, Utah, has 16 million members worldwide and operates three universities with a total of more than 50,000 students.<\/p>\n<p>The church\u2019s IT department wished to address several business problems: slow provisioning time with hundreds of applications, an infrastructure that was increasingly difficult to manage, and a bias toward fault tolerance over scale for most of its apps.<\/p>\n<p>It now runs Cloud Foundry on vSphere and deploys more than 200 applications. Cloud Foundry has become the platform of choice for deploying all of the organization\u2019s custom applications, according to Principal Software Engineer Mike Heath.<\/p>\n<p>A small team of three developers, three operations personnel \u201cwho help out when necessary,\u2019 according to Heath, and an intern forms the Cloud Foundry team.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_79_2 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-transparent ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/lds-church-deploys-200-apps-with-cloud-foundry\/#Many_benefits\" >Many benefits<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/lds-church-deploys-200-apps-with-cloud-foundry\/#Custom_work_and_service_brokers\" >Custom work and service brokers<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/lds-church-deploys-200-apps-with-cloud-foundry\/#Related_videos\" >Related videos<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/lds-church-deploys-200-apps-with-cloud-foundry\/#Related_slides\" >Related slides<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Many_benefits\"><\/span>Many benefits<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Cloud Foundry\u2019s self\u00ad-service capability and customizability feature prominently in its success at the LDS Church. Numerous custom service brokers facilitate integration with existing systems. The self\u00ad-service model has also been extended to other teams within the organization, managing Oracle databases, for example.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause the Cloud Foundry architecture is loosely coupled, we can inject our own components without modifying Cloud Foundry code,\u201d notes Heath. \u201cWe know when something starts or crashes without touching the code.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cloud Foundry\u2019s key attribute, though, is that it\u2019s open source, according to Heath. \u201cIt would not be possible to deploy something as complicated as a PaaS without open source,\u201d he says. \u201cWe need that visibility to get into the code and know what\u2019s going on. With Cloud Foundry, we can go in and tweak things to make things work the way we want to make it work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Custom_work_and_service_brokers\"><\/span>Custom work and service brokers<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The LDS Church IT department is a Java shop, so uses a secure console and JMX to de\u00adbug applications remotely. Heath and the team also created a custom HTTP proxy to enable some of its applications, but not all, to access the public internet. \u201cWe\u2019ve also integrated with enterprise monitoring and alerting, and build a component between Loggregator Syslog and Splunk to associate metadata with the app,\u201d Heath says. \u201cSo Splunk users can go in and find messages for their space, org, or app.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The church\u2019s IT infrastructure now uses custom service brokers for AppDynamics, enterprise web services, HP Service Manager, LDAP, Marklogic, Oracle, single sign\u00adon, and Splunk. The team built all the service brokers and custom components with Java and Spring. All components are deployed with BOSH and are all open\u00adsource and available at github.<\/p>\n<p>A simple, <a title=\"demo service broker\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/mheath\/simple-service-broker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">demo service broker<\/a> can be found at github.<\/p>\n<p>Some of its code appears in the screen below:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3064\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Some-of-its-code.jpg\" alt=\"Some of its code\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The LDS Church plans to keep extending Cloud Foundry into its infrastructure, and take advantage of new developments with Cloud Foundry. For now, \u201cour team exists to make it easier for all of our developers to deploy applications,\u201d Heath says. \u201cCloud Foundry solves all of the team\u2019s problems and makes it easy for developers to deploy their applications.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to a publicly-accessible wiki, LDS employees can now <a href=\"https:\/\/tech.churchofjesuschrist.org\/wiki\/Running_a_Java_Stack_App_on_Cloud_Foundry\">deploy applications to Cloud Foundry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Related_videos\"><\/span>Related videos<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>A presentation by Mike Heath at the Cloud Foundry Summit 2014 can be found on YouTube:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LCC1q6tpawY\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>[blockquote cite=\"Mike Heath, Principal Software Engineer, LDS Church\"]We like Cloud Foundry so much we\u2019ve made it the platform for deploying all of our custom applications.[\/blockquote]\n<p>There is another nice video from Mike Heath called \u201cFree Yourself with Cloud Foundry\u201d from SpringOneG2X 2013 on YouTube:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mezHECXI-u0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Related_slides\"><\/span>Related slides<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>A SlideShare of \u201cFree Yourself with Cloud Foundry&#8230;\u201d by Mike Heath is also available:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 1px solid #CCC; border-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 5px; max-width: 100%;\" src=\"\/\/www.slideshare.net\/slideshow\/embed_code\/30226386\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"> <\/iframe><\/center>One of the LDS Church&#8217;s goals is to keep extending CF into its infrastructure. A presentation called \u201cExtending Cloud Foundry with Custom Integration\u201d by Cornelia Davis at Pivotal addresses that topic in general, and provides a lot of great information along the way.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 1px solid #CCC; border-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 5px; max-width: 100%;\" src=\"\/\/www.slideshare.net\/slideshow\/embed_code\/27949917\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"> <\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Note: This use case is based on presentations by<br \/>\n, Principal Software Engineer, LDS Church.)<\/p>\n<p>The LDS Church, based in Salt Lake City, Utah, has 16 million members worldwide and operates three universities with a total of more than 50,000 students.<\/p>\n<p>The church\u2019s IT department wished to address several business problems: slow 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