An approach that GE Digital takes to deploy software to Edge servers -- containerize your apps using Windows Docker

1. Packaging Software at the Edge

2. 2
Who is Peter Ngai
July 28, 2017
Software Architect
https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterngai/
peter.ngai@ge.com

3. 3
Agenda
• Asset Performance Management (APM)
• APM Business Benefits
• Meridium APM
• APM Solutions
• On-Premise APM – Logical Architecture
• Problem Statement
• How to package software for the Edge?
• On-Premise APM – Dev to Deploy Ecosystem
• Approach to Dockerization
• On-Premise APM – Edge Execution Model
• Dockerfile
• Intercept Docker Container
• Demo
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What we do
Our problem set
Our solution

4. 4
Asset Performance Management (APM)
Video
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5. 5
Asset Performance Management (APM)
Condition DataMaintenance Data
Mobile Data
Context
Intelligent Asset Strategies

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APM Business Benefits
Proven end-to-end value
2-6%
Increased
Availability
5-10%
Inventory
Cost
Reduction
10-
40%
Reduction
in Reactive
Maintenanc
e
3-40%
EH&S
Incident
Reduction
5-25%
Gain in
Employee
Productivity
5-25%
Reduction in
IT Total
Cost of
Ownership

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8. 8
APM Solutions – Pillars and Capabilities
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Machine and
Equipment Health
Less unplanned downtime by
predicting equipment issues
before they occur.
• Connectivity
• Data management
• EAM integration
Anytime, anywhere, unified view of your assets’ current state, and health.
• Condition monitoring
• Data analysis and visualization
• Criticality analysis
• Event management
• Recommendation management
• Benchmarking
Reliability Management
Asset Strategy
Optimization
Optimize across availability,
reliability, risk, and costs through
intelligent asset strategies.
Ensure asset integrity and
compliance by monitoring
changing risk conditions.
Compliance and
Integrity Management
• Predictive analytics
• Case and collaboration management
• Knowledge management
• Root cause analysis
• Reliability analysis
• Hazard analysis
• Safety lifecycle management
• Risk based inspection
• Inspection management
• Thickness monitoring
• Reliability centered maintenance
• Failure mode effects analysis
• Strategy management
• Strategy library
• Lifecycle cost analysis
• Financial and risk simulation

9. 9
HTTP(
S)
Local
Storage
Camera GPS
APM Apps
PhoneGap/BrowserAPIs
Model
Objects
View
HTML, CSS,
SASS
View Model
UI Logic
UserInterface
Tier
DeviceAPIs
Application
Tier
Static Files
HTML, CSS,
Images
Data
Tier
REST Services
Application Façade
Security,Logging,
Monitoring,
Communication
Business APIsCore APIs
Data Access APIs
Services
Scheduling and
other Agents
Relational Database Application Caching Alternate Storage
APM UI Framework
On-Premise APM – Logical Architecture

10. Problem Statement
How to manage software updates?

11. A: Containerize your software  Easy to deploy
Q: How to package software for the Edge?

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Windows Server 2016
Windows Docker
Docker images
redis:
wsc
microsoft/sql-server-
windows:latest
meridium:0.
1
Ubuntu Server LTS
Management
Console
GE Docker
registrymeridium:0.1
meridium:0.2Windows 10 pro
(engineer)
VS2012
meridium:0.2.
5
Windows Docker
meridium:0.2.
5
Windows Server 2016
(qa)
… …
Build
JenkinsGithub
meridium:0.2.5
Development Quality Assurance Production
Deployment / Management
On-Premise APM – Dev to Deploy Ecosystem

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Approach to Dockerization
• Expandability
• Utilize off the shelf docker images
• Maintainability
• Externalize customer data from docker images – use docker volumes
• Integrate-ability
• Hook into current software deployment systems
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On-Premise APM – Edge Execution Model
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GE
APM
System
Legend
Asset Performance Management (Edge) – Ubuntu LTS
Windows Server 2016 VM
Win App A
DB
Windows Docker
Docker
Redis
DockerVolumes
Docker Host
Volume
[Base - 15.28GB]
Meridium
app
SQL
Server
Meridium Docker
Network [192.168.1.0/24]
[192.168.1.7:80:80]
[192.168.1.6:1433:1433][X: drive]
Custome
r data
[:6379:6379]
[10.0.0.5]
Docker
AppNDocker
AppNDocker
AppX
Win App B
DB
Win App C
[10.0.0.4]
Windows Applications (co-existing)
Win App D
Customer
Predix
MicroSvcPredix
MicroSvc
Docker App
Predix
MicroSvcPredix
MicroSvc
Docker App
Predix
MicroSvcPredix
MicroSvc
Docker App
*nix App A
DB
Linux Applications (co-existing)
*nix App B
DB
*nix App C
*nix App D
Docker
AppNDocker
AppNDocker
AppY
Docker Images

15. 15
Dockerfile
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16. 16
Intercept Docker Container  new Container
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17. Demo
July 28,