As one of China's three major auto group Dongfeng Motor's Dongfeng Nissan Passenger Vehicle Company (hereinafter referred to as the Dongfeng Nissan) was established in 2013, is mainly engaged in the NISSAN car brand of R & D, manufacturing, sales and after-sales business, China the whole value chain of the automotive industry one of the enterprises.
In the information technology aspects, Friends of the Shenzhen Science and Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as the Friends of Science and Technology) as an undertaking by Nissan information technology, assume Nissan business whole value chain, information technology, private cloud construction, car networking construction work . Friends of Science and Technology is China's leading automotive whole value chain of information technology services provider focused on providing overall information technology solutions, information technology, automotive design and car networking, big data analytics and applications, cloud services, in Japanese, Europe car firms have excellent reputation.
Nissan cloud infrastructure management challenges facing the sector from two aspects: First, with the continued expansion of business, multiple data centers increasingly complex IT management system; on the other hand, as Nissan IT operations undertaker, Friends of science and technology in order to deal with complex and demanding IT needs quickly, a lot of manpower and time in the IT infrastructure. But for external users of resources within service delivery relies heavily on manual processes and lines under implementation, resource delivery cycle is too long, self-service users can not access resources. The Resource Management and rigid delivery also brings challenges for fast on-line business applications and operations.
June 2018, Nissan released "Chi Heng + 'car linked system, the depth of the layout of car networking, big data field of automotive. Telematics large concurrent, interactive use frequent, highly reliable operation scenarios, enterprise IT infrastructure has put forward higher requirements. To this end, Dongfeng Nissan to further accelerate the process of transition from traditional IT infrastructure to the cloud architecture, hopes to continuously enhance the IT infrastructure cloud and service capabilities, enterprise in the digital transition, business continuity, specific target security compliance effective support vehicle networking, application scenarios automobile big data.
Challenge: Excessive artificial management operations, strong demand for service automation
Nissan's four vehicle production base north to south, are equipped with local computer room, the building of two data centers in the city. Distribution of IT infrastructure resources is relatively fragmented, and the management and delivery of long-term resources faced with too many manual operations, can not be accurately measured delivery cycle is too long and other issues. After combing the management needs of the transition period architecture, Nissan and Friends of Science and Technology found that the challenges facing cloud infrastructure management need to be addressed include:
Resource Management : run multiple data center environment with multiple virtualized cluster environment, totaling more than 3,000 virtual machines, which includes development, testing, production, and some running in the data center leased the virtual machine environment. The virtual machine is extensive management, statistics through labor, delivery and recovery, can not be precisely measured. 2018, Nissan started the practice of container technologies, through the deployment of OpenShift support Dongfeng Kai Chen APP, procurement systems, logistics and settlement systems and other innovative services. As a result, the demand for unified nanotubes heterogeneous resources to further enhance, Nissan needs to be able to realize the virtual machine, the container environment unified service platform nanotubes;
Resources Delivery : Before managing virtual machines by Dongfeng self-developed Nissan cloud management platform, only to achieve automatic delivery of some of the resources, but the self-study late-stage high maintenance costs, with the rapid expansion of infrastructure size and type of automation delivery is almost impossible. On the other hand, the process of resource delivery and internal processes coupled platform depth, when the two sides needs to improve, it will cause major changes, and further increase the difficulty of automatic delivery of resources;
Service Delivery : Nissan has been faced with the situation of IT resources to deliver business-service delivery disjointed. Traditional environments CI / CD (continuous integration / continuous delivery) transformation of the greater resistance, the timeline of the application uncontrollable. To support rapid business innovation, Nissan introduced the container technology, but the lack of a unified resource pool of the container resource capacity to deliver. Overall, delivery and operation of IT infrastructure in the main manual intervention, operation and maintenance of the system pressure continues to increase.
Change: multi-data center cloud platform tube support enterprise IT architecture transformation
Friends of science and technology according to their actual needs of the IT infrastructure operations, the official launch of the cloud platform upgrade pipe construction in 2018. Based on China's leading cloudy management software and services provider FIT2CLOUD fly-induced cloud cloudy management solutions, building covering public and private cloud environments across different physical data center cloud tube platform unified management and control of service delivery, build contains multiple one of its own data centers and public cloud cloudy resource pool.
Of particular concern is that Nissan's multi-data center cloud tube platform realizes the new OpenShift container cloud nanotube, and CI-based container cloud microphysics services / CD process visualization, expand based on micro Services Architecture Dongfeng Nissan paved the way for innovative business applications.
Compared with the previous self-developed cloud-based CloudStack platform pipe, tube new cloud platform to build a unified management portal cloudy, cloudy provides a management perspective infrastructure for IT administrators. In resource management, Dongfeng Nissan to achieve the unity of its own data center, IDC leasing environment, focus on nanotubes, category management and user-oriented self-service delivery. Cloud platform tube while nanotubes container resources, container resources to support unified planning quota, and the use of containers cloud metering, billing. More importantly, the original self-study based on CloudStack platform, the introduction of excessive network automation, SDN and other programs, post-maintenance costs are too high, not suitable properties Nissan's IT business support. The new FIT2CLOUD cloud management platform completely decoupled to ensure the stability and operational isolation.
On the basis of heterogeneous resources on the nanotube, the tube cloud platform also with Dongfeng Nissan's existing IT processes and integrated systems for docking. In the delivery part of the resources, the cloud platform to replace the original tube management system, into a unified entrance output host resources and delivery capabilities. IT departments can also be based on multiple data center resources, different for different cluster environments (such as production, development, test, group Brothers, etc.) define and configure resources delivery processes, these processes and productivity of existing ITSM processes Dongfeng Nissan to integrate with each other to comply with ITIL service management best practices. In addition, the cloud platform also docked Jumpserver tube fortress and other security services to meet enterprise security compliance requirements together.
For Nissan, the cloud tube platform is not only important to their traditional IT cloud transformation process support platform, or its more future-oriented integrated management and service delivery capacity of the core framework. 2019, Nissan plans to further expand the scope of management and service capabilities cloud tube platform, building self-controlled integrated cloud management platform. Based on a modular, support the rapid expansion of technology management framework cloudy, Nissan self-developed by the manufacturer or supportive manner, by way of expansion modules developed continuously improve the integration cloud platform tube.
Currently, part of Nissan's business is built on a private cloud environment, future plans to introduce more than a public cloud environment. In the new IT infrastructure, cloud tube platform will play the role of integrator and connected persons. For public cloud environment, the cloud platform will be exposed through the tube expansion module to the user public cloud virtual machines, RDS (relational database), object storage, messaging middleware and other services; for container environment, the cloud platform will expand OpenShift pipe production environment docking, while providing the ability to DevOps-based OpenShift container services. In addition, according to business needs, the cloud platform will also help extension tube butt more IT services, such as vulnerability scanning, virtual machine backup, certificate services, while also collaborating PaaS platform-based containers, providing middleware to developers life-cycle management capabilities.
Earnings: uniform nanotubes stock of incremental resources, open service delivery processes
After the implementation of a cloud platform pipe project, Nissan cloud platform tube reached its targets in resource management, resource delivery in the design and planning, service delivery and other aspects. Specific benefits include:
Build a unified service portal Nissan / Friends of the cloud infrastructure environment, uniform nanotubes Nissan and Friends of science and technology in all IT infrastructure, achieve full lifecycle management of virtual machines, containers, public cloud resources, and effectively enhance the the efficient use of cloud infrastructure.
Rationalize the IT resource delivery processes, through process optimization and integration lay the foundation for future business growth. Through the cloud tube platform different management "customer" environment, the establishment of different resources for different clusters delivery process, improves IT resource users to obtain real-world experience. The cloud platform tube approval flow and enterprise ITSM processes butted to enhance the level of automation of the entire service delivery system on the basis of compliance.
Innovation achieved through the cloud tube platform nanotube OpenShift container environment, and the discovery of container assets and analysis, support CI / CD processes based container environment and micro-services framework for enterprises to develop cars networking, automotive big data innovation business provides flexible, rapid deployment, support for agile development environments.
Change the virtual cluster extensive management of the situation, the stock of virtualized resources management fine. For Nissan more than 3,000 sets of virtual machine resource pool, the cloud platform tube through user groups, labeling analysis, etc., using state of the virtual machine resources and more accurate metering and billing, IT managers easily understand resource usage in real time, in a timely manner reclaim idle virtual machines, avoid waste of resources.
Partner testimony:
Through the cloud tube platform across data centers and public cloud environments, Dongfeng Nissan to achieve a unified management of virtual machines, container environment heterogeneous cloud infrastructure, and the establishment of a service-oriented different user groups of the delivery process, greatly enhanced the cloud operational efficiency and resource utilization environment. FIT2CLOUD tube cloud platform also has strong scalability, dockable security, backup, risk prediction and other services, continued to improve service management capabilities required for business innovation.
- Friends of Science and Technology Jin Sheng
