IBM Connections 6 Component Pack

Berlin, October 16-17 2018
IBM Connections 6
Component Pack
Miki Banatwala
STSM, IBM Connections
@bmustan

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Connections 6 Component Pack
3Things
1.What is it?
2.Why?
3.How do you adopt it quickly?

Component Pack -What?
• Orient Me
• scoring/prioritizing activity stream
• ITM
• Customizer
• Middleware proxy & App Reg
• Metrics (backend)

Component Pack -Why?
• Simplify Adoption
• Improve User Experience and UserAdoption
• Personalization

Microservices - Scalability, agility & speed
small, independently deployed, narrowly-focused business capabilities
communicating with each other using language independent APIs
Build Once
Consistency
Modularity
Scale*, agility & speed!
Delivery Model

• Modern CI-CD
• Docker
• StrongLoop / IBM API Connect (node.js/express) -
micro services
• React.js
• MongoDB
• Redis, SOLR, Elastic search
• Nginx
• Docker
• Container Orchestration
Technology

Options (Flexibility)
• Component Pack 6.0.0.6
• Customizer
• Elastic search
• Orient Me
• Stand-alone Elastic search
• ** MinimizedCustomizer

Component Pack
Helm Chart Orient Me Customizer Elasticsearch
bootstrap ✔ ✔ ✔
connections-env ✔ ✔ ✔
infrastructure ✔ ✔
mw-proxy ✔
elasticsearch ✔
orientme ✔

Ok, but…
• ‘Openness’ – base framework can be deployed anywhere
• Why Kubernetes?
• Framework quality, adoption, availability, etc…
• Flexibility
• Existing or new
• What happened to ICP?
• Needed flexibility - softlayer, aws, google, own fabric
• Will we still support ICP based deployment?
• YES
• How do upgrades, security fixes & patches work?
• Component pack with releases (in parallel CRs)
• Security updates & feature fixes as needed
• Helm charts

Connections deployment (WAS)Proxy
FrontDoor|Proxy**
Orient Me
Customizer
Component pack - overview

Services
Purpose Services needed
infrastructure
orientme analysis-service, indexing-service, retrieval-service
community-suggestions
itm-services
mail-service
orient-web-client, middleware-graphql
people-datamigration
people-idmapping people-relationship, people-scoring
userprefs-service
appregistry-client, appregistry-service
mongodb, mongodb-rs-setup
haproxy, redis, redis-sentinel
solr, zookeeper
Metrics & Quick Results elasticsearch
Logging/Monitoring kibana, logstash, filebeat
Customizer mw-proxy, file-service,
appregistry-client, appregistry-service
mongodb, mongodb-rs-setup
haproxy, redis, redis-sentinel
Sanity sanity, sanity-watcher

Infrastructure
1.Mongo
2.SOLR
•Zookeeper
3.REDIS
•HAProxy
4.Elasticsearch

Orient Me
• Provides your users with a cognitive
view of their most essential
Connections content.
• Shows users prioritized updates, with
content from the people and
communities they interact with the
most at the top and grouped by source,
or view a single stream based on time.
• Fully integrated with an updated
Notification Center to truly make the
home page a command center for
managing time and attention.

Orient Me
Component pack – Orient Me services/deployment

Customizer
• Given where it sits (between the request and response) it can:
• change behavior of the service its sitting in front of!
• rewrite requests
• rewrite responses
• inject ‘custom items’
• do predictive caching
• do pretty much anything :-)
1. Ease of customization
• Ability to use external js/css
• Target customizations based on user(s), url, service, etc.
• Externalize customizations
2.Upgrade

Periscope (akaVisual Update 1)

SIMPLEREQUESTROUTING
Connections
1 2

SIMPLEREQUESTROUTING
Connections Customizer
1
2
3
4

CUSTOMIZER(SIMPLECASE)
1
2
3
4
Adjust payload

CUSTOMIZER(W/APPLICATIONREGISTRY)
• Routing
• Not ALL traffic is going via Customizer!
Adjust payload
Customer 1 Customer 2
User1
Business Partner1
CustomizationManager
Support
Proxy/Front door

FrontDoor|Proxy**
Customizer
Component pack - Customizer

Customizer – a few words on performance
• It’s a proxy
• Pay attention to where CNX and the proxy are deployed
• We do NOT proxy all requests
• Running in cloud already without any performance degradations

** Customizer (simplified) -Technology PREVIEW
1. Install Customizer without k8s
2. *Suitable for POCs, non-HA environments
3. No mongo and redis requirements
• App-registry definitions and customizer injections are pulled from disk
4. *Still requires re-routing work
• Will work with BPs, others to see IF that requirement can be ‘simplified’ as well!

FrontDoor|Proxy** Customizer
Component pack – Customizer (minimal deployment)
CP 6006 customizer

Metrics
1.Insights into Connections usage and adoption
1.Admin level
2.Community owner level
2.Cognos import for historic data
3.Based on (recorded in) Elasticsearch

Quick Results
1. End-user – easy to pick up where you left off
2.We maintain X’00 items in the list (rotating)
3. Powers recent views in Files and Communities

Quick Results & RecentViews
• Search from anywhere in Connections to get back to recently
accessed content with Quick Results
• Recently viewed Files and Communities at your fingertips.

Quick Results & RecentViews

Component pack – Metrics & Quick Results
Stand-alone Hosted

Help Me Decide!
1. HA/non-HA
2. Kubernetes or not?
3. Elasticsearch
4. Customizer HA -> Component Pack on k8s (and adopt as
you need)
5. OrientMe
If you need Customizer in HA or you already have a K8s
infrastructure, or need OrientMe -> CP.
ELSE keep it simple – start with ES stand-alone and
Customizer stand-alone*

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