Automic World 2015November 2015

Automation through Web Services

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The Challenge of Keeping up with Change..

Distributed World Mutualized World

Orchestration Strategies:Command Line Interface

APIsBinary Calls

OS Commands & Scripts

Orchestration Strategies:Web Services

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Using Web Services will become necessary

If…

You are leveraging any SaaS based solution today or planning it

You are adopting big data solutions (Cloudera, Hortonworks)

You are using Web Services in your internal development You are using any Software as a Service solution (Salesforce, Jira)

You are using Infrastructure as a Services (ex: Amazon EC2)

You are using Platform as a Service (ex: OpenShift, Cloud Foundry)

You are pulling Data from Partners, Entities, Customers etc.

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What makes the Web Service Agent interesting

No Scripting Necessary

Support for Rest and SOAP Ability to parse and extract values from Responses Define Custom Variables Get Request and Response as Reports

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Demo: Request Management & Ticketing

Open JIRA Ticket upon failure in Workflow Close JIRA Ticket from Job Recovery Add Comments to JIRA Ticket

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Demo: Provisioning Servers

Dynamically Provision New Servers via Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2) Easily Identify Instances Automatically Run Maintenance and clean ups Dynamically Deprovision Servers

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Web Service Connection – Object Definition

Handles Proxies Handles Authentication Contains the Endpoint (URI / WSDL) Handles Headers and Query Parameters (ex: Version of authentication method)

https://ec2.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/finance/?Version=2013-02-01&Action=DescribeInstances&InstanceId=&instanceid

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Web Service - End Point & Curl

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Web Service Request –Variable Query Parameters

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Web Service Request – URL Query Parameters

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Web Service Request – Data

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Web Service Response – Parsing XML / JSON Responses

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Best Practices

Use a proxy for better control

Install 2 Web Services Agents for High Availability

Put all Generic / Common parameters in Connection Objects Run tests with cURL when starting your implementation

“Variabilize” as much as possible

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Q&A

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