Getting Started with WSO2 Governance as a Service (GaaS)

Written by Senaka

Stratos, WSO2's latest introduction, is an implementation of a complete middleware platform-as-a-service (PaaS) solution on top of a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), based on WSO2 Carbon. Stratos brings about all the features available on a complete WSO2 Carbon platform deployment, on a cloud infrastructure, which provides a set of multi-tenant, on-demand services that provides you with solutions to all your SOA middleware requirements, in a matter of a few clicks. Click here to start using Stratos for free, or visit, the Stratos product page to view a detailed list of services available.

This post aims at introducing you to WSO2 Governance as a Service (GaaS), which is one of the ten different services available as a part of Stratos. WSO2 Governance Registry (G-Reg), provides a single uniform facade to your SOA metadata. G-Reg allows you to store, index, catalog and build a community around your enterprise service offerings, while making use of its easy-to-use interfaces to manage dependencies, analyze impact, enforce policies, create versions, search and drive business processes. GaaS, allows you to make use the very same features on the cloud, without having worry about setting up your own G-Reg instance.

Starting to use GaaS, is as simple as creating an account for yourself on WSO2 Stratos. Getting started is as easy as following the 5 steps below.

Step 1 : Register a new domain



Step 2 : Fill in your details



After clicking on the submit button, you will see a confirmation page as seen below.



Step 3 : Confirm E-mail address

You will then receive a confirmation e-mail, with the link to your all new account on Stratos.

You now have successfully created an account which you can use to access WSO2 Governance as a Service (GaaS). Making use of GaaS is just 2 more steps.

Step 4 : Login to your Stratos account



Step 5 : Select the Stratos Governance service

This will load your own GaaS account on the cloud. The homepage will list out some useful links to help you get started.

Feel free to try out some of the interesting features of GaaS. For more information and updates, please stay in touch with the WSO2 Stratos Development team.

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Single Sign-On & Single Sign-Out - user experience

Written by Yumani Ranaweera

Single sign-on is "a session/user authentication process that permits a user to enter one name and password in order to access multiple applications. The process authenticates the user for all the applications they have been given rights to and eliminates further prompts when they switch applications during a particular session." - Definition from Whatis.com

In Single sign-out the user will be signed-out from all authenticated applications at a single sign-out


WSO2 Stratos demonstrates the SSO concept very well. This is how user SSO experience in WSO2 Stratos.

Firstly, you need to create a domain and register you tenant in Stratos. There'll be two follow up emails. One to confirm you email address and the other to give your account details.
Following up the mails you can login to you Startos Manager page, or you can simply sign-in using the given admin credentials.

The first page you see after sign-in from admin credentials is the Stratos Manager Home page. From here you can invoke various WSO2 products which appear as services.
With SSO enabled Stratos, you can access these services without having to re-login at each entrance point (at each point where it opens up a new service for you). It is because your username and password are already authenticated and you are permited to access these multiple applications.

Afterwards, Say you have opened sevaral services where you were automatically logged-in and while you were working on one service (e.g. Cloud Gadgets), another has gone on a session expriration. No issues :), When you accessing the page it will nicely validate you by itself and make the service availble in a refreshed session.

Now, if you signout from one of the software services by clicking the 'Sign-out' link, you will be automatically signed-out from all the accessed services. That's where you will notice that Single -sign-out is in place!!!

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Introduction to WSO2 Cloud Platform

Written by Afkham Azeez

WSO2 Stratos 2010 September Workshop

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Over the road of flowers..

Written by Kathiravelu Pradeeban

The last two weeks were really interesting and most remarkable. Our Advanced Database (CS4420) Module research paper "Horizontal Format Data Mining with Extended Bitmaps," got accepted for International Conference of Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition - SoCPaR-2010 (Paris, France. December 7th - 10th, 2010), under the category "Pattern Recognition," as a short paper. We got to know this exciting news on 11th of September. After a few days, on 16th, we were announced that our Mooshabaya paper too has been accepted to the 8th International Workshop on Middleware for Grids, Clouds and e-Science - MGC-2010 (Bangalore, India . November 29th - December 3rd, 2010), as a full paper, to double our joy. It should also be noted that both the projects were from us - the same 4 member team Mooshabaya, who are currently Software Engineers at WSO2.

Our job at WSO2 started with a remarkable week. The new building at #50 was opened the very same day (September) we joined. The next two days we had the WSO2Conf marking the 5 years of excellence of WSO2. The first week ended with the 5 years party at the Waters Edge. Walks between the forts of 50 and 59 over the road of flowers⚘. Loving these days... ♥ ♥ Cloud/Could Duality ;) And I am into WSO2 Stratos! I got into the Stratos (WSO2 Carbon Middleware Platform as a Service) team - Stratos Manager Component and Stratos Security as the first tasks. Finally completing one of the most remarkable fortnights with this post.

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Build WSO2 Stratos ESB from source

Written by Heshan Suriyaarachchi

Following blogpost will discuss how to build WSO2's Stratos ESB (aka Cloud ESB) from source.

1. First build carbon trunk upto features. Please follow my earlier post on building WSO2 ESB from source.

2. Checkout WSO2 Stratos source.

svn co https://svn.wso2.org/repos/wso2/trunk/stratos

Then following directories/files will be checked into your file system.

.
|-- build
|-- components
|-- features
|-- pom.xml
|-- samples
|-- services
`-- setup

3. Build Stratos components project.

heshan@heshan-laptop:~/Dev/trunk/stratos/components$ mvn clean install -Dmaven.test.skip=true

4. Build Strtos features project.

heshan@heshan-laptop:~/Dev/trunk/stratos/features$ mvn clean install -Dmaven.test.skip=true

5. Build Stratos Manager.

heshan@heshan-laptop:~/Dev/trunk/stratos/services/manager$ mvn clean install -Dmaven.test.skip=true

6. Build Stratos ESB.

heshan@heshan-laptop:~/Dev/trunk/stratos/services/esb$ mvn clean install -Dmaven.test.skip=true

7. Run the setup script.

heshan@heshan-laptop:~/Dev/trunk/stratos/setup$ ./setup.sh

8. Create the necessary databases.

mysql>CREATE DATABASE stratos_db;

mysql>CREATE DATABASE WSO2CARBON_DB;

mysql>CREATE DATABASE billing;

Create users and give necessary user-permssions.

mysql>CREATE USER 'wso2stratos'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'wso2stratos';
mysql>GRANT ALL ON *.* TO 'wso2stratos'@'localhost';

mysql>CREATE USER 'billing'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'billing';
mysql>GRANT ALL ON *.* TO 'billing'@'localhost';

Create tables.

heshan@heshan-laptop:~/Dev/trunk/stratos/services/manager/modules/distribution/target/wso2stratos-manager-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT/dbscripts$ mysql -u root -p < billing-mysql.sql billing

9. Start the Stratos Manager.
NOTE: Server should be started with -Dsetup option in the first time.

heshan@heshan-laptop:~/Dev/trunk/stratos/services/manager/modules/distribution/target/wso2stratos-manager-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT/bin$ ./wso2server.sh -Dsetup

10. Start Stratos ESB.
NOTE: Server should be started with -Dsetup option in the first time.

heshan@heshan-laptop:~/Dev/trunk/stratos/services/esb/modules/distribution/target/wso2stratos-esb-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT/bin$ ./wso2server.sh -Dsetup

11. Stop the above servers. Then startup the both the servers again without -Dsetup option.

heshan@heshan-laptop:~/Dev/trunk/stratos/services/manager/modules/distribution/target/wso2stratos-manager-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT/bin$ ./wso2server.sh
heshan@heshan-laptop:~/Dev/trunk/stratos/services/esb/modules/distribution/target/wso2stratos-esb-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT/bin$ ./wso2server.sh

12. Create a Tenent by logging into the Stratos Manager. Then using the credentials obtained, you can log into the Stratos ESB.

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WSO2 Stratos 1.0.0 Released!

Written by Sami

WSO2 Stratos team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.0.0 WSO2 Stratos.

WSO2 Stratos is a complete middleware platform-as-a-service for implementing an enterprise service-oriented architecture (SOA). WSO2 Stratos is 100% open source and is available under Apache License v2.0. It is built on top of, and extends, WSO2 Carbon, the award-winning, comprehensive, concise, lean enterprise middleware platform.

WSO2 Stratos 1.0.0 release is available for download at http://wso2.org/downloads/stratos

WSO2 Platform as a Service 1.0.0 Beta is readily available for access at https://cloud.wso2.com. This is a hosted version of WSO2 Stratos 1.0.0 currently in beta status where customers can register and use all the middleware services without having to deploy any software.

With WSO2 Stratos, IT professionals have a fully hosted platform-as-a-service (PaaS) for rapidly building and deploying services and composite applications, with instant provisioning capability. WSO2 Stratos delivers on the promise of cloud computing with a complete, enterprise middleware platform for delivering applications that can run on, and integrate with, any combination of private clouds, public clouds and on-premise systems. WSO2 Stratos is equipped with features for auto-scaling and single sign-on, as well as enhanced functionality for automatic activity monitoring, usage metering, centralized governance and identity management.

WSO2 Stratos offers all the benefits of the cloud without the complexity or fear of vendor lock-in.

• It is integrated across multiple middleware platform services and provides unified interfaces across services; hence facilitate shorter project times
• Metering reduce costs by allowing monitoring that lead to optimizing data center utilization and allowing companies to pay only for what they use
• Auto-scaling provides the ability to scale up or down based on the demand for services and usage capacity, eliminating both resource starvation as well as resource slack
• Multi-tenancy means applications supporting different organizations, business units or regional offices can be delivered cost-effectively from a single location sharing the same platform and resources, yet run fully independently
• Built-in automated governance and centralized identity management facilitates control over applications and services across different tenants.
• WSO2 Stratos is based on the comprehensive WSO2 Carbon middleware platform, hence, applications can be migrated smoothly and safely on premise, to a private cloud, to the public cloud, or to a hybrid environment.providing unprecedented deployment flexibility.

WSO2 Stratos comes with all of the production-quality runtime engines in WSO2 Carbon available as cloud services:

• WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus as a Service
• WSO2 Application Server as a Service
• WSO2 Data as a Service
• WSO2 Governance as a Service
• WSO2 Identity as a Service
• WSO2 Business Activity Monitoring as a Service
• WSO2 Business Processes as a Service
• WSO2 Business Rules as a Service
• WSO2 Mashups as a Service
• WSO2 Gadgets as a Service

WSO2 Stratos Features

At the heart of the WSO2 Stratos Platform as a Service is a cloud manager. This PaaS home service provides management and monitoring capabilities and offers a Web portal where users can register their domains (tenants), log in, manage their accounts, manage users and roles, and activate/deactivate the middleware services that are available for their users.

The PaaS home offers point-and-click simplicity for provisioning middleware services, so developers can get started immediately and focus on the business logic, rather than configuring and deploying software systems.

The platform integration layer within WSO2 Stratos allows it to install onto any existing cloud infrastructure such as Eucalyptus, Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud, Amazon EC2, and VMware ESX. Enterprises are never locked into a specific infrastructure provider or platform.

Once WSO2 Stratos is installed, a Web-based management portal lets users configure, manage and govern independent-but-consistent services for each department, or for each stage of a system's lifecycle. Each server is completely virtual, scaling up automatically to handle the required load, metered and billed according to use.

Noteworthy WSO2 Stratos features include:

• Auto-scaling capabilities: WSO2 Stratos automatically adjusts the use of cloud resources to meet increased or decreased demand.
• Single sign-on functionality: Users only need to sign on once to access all WSO2 Stratos services that they are authorized to use.
• Enhanced automatic activity monitoring: Activity monitoring is available in real time, so there is no time gap between data collection and the availability of data for monitoring.
• Enhanced usage metering: Metering is automated so that every operation by tenant users will be monitored and recorded. The metering information can be used for billing and for offering constrained access for certain services.
• Enhanced centralized governance and identity management: All the resources of all Stratos services can be monitored and governed from a single point - from WSO2 Stratos Governance as a Service. When a modification, such as changing a security policy, or changing the keystore, is done from a single place, it is immediately visible to all other services. In addition, all services share a single user store. When a user is added from a service, that new user can immediately access all other services available for the tenant.

Support

As a fully open source solution WSO2 Stratos does not require any licensing fees.

WSO2 offers a range of service and support options, including evaluation support, CloudStart(SM) consulting program, development support and production support.

For additional support information please visit http://wso2.com/support/ .

WSO2 Stratos Team

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Stratos - 1.0.0 ~ Sky is not a limit for the cloud!

Written by Kathiravelu Pradeeban

Last couple of days WSO2 team was energized in shaping up the most powerful PaaS (Platform as a Service) it has to offer. Stratos is a complete middleware platform as a service. Standing as the backbone of WSO2 Stratos, WSO2 Carbon is a complete SOA middleware platform. Stratos - 1.0.0 was released today and it has become yet another impressive and creative piece of work from WSO2.

For the last couple of weeks both the Stratos team lead by Azeez and Shankar and the QA team lead by Charitha were in action shaping up the young Stratos.  Not just the Stratos team, but the entire team of WSO2 was there for Stratos. I'd say nightly coding is stylish. You would love it, if you give it a try in a perfect environment for coding. After the hackathon and war modes, Stratos team has got to celebrate it. It was a nice experience being at WSO2, when the Stratos 1.0.0 was deployed for public, replacing its predecessor stratos-alpha. It was like Dec 31st Night, and it worthed the celebration!

Haven't you signed up yet for WSO2 Stratos Services? Sign up an account for your organization free in the public cloud

Download Stratos from here.

Stratos Community and Product home.

Samisa's post on Stratos explains why is Stratos so special.

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Single Sign-On & Single Sign-Out - user experience

Written by Yumani Ranaweera

Single sign-on is "a session/user authentication process that permits a user to enter one name and password in order to access multiple applications. The process authenticates the user for all the applications they have been given rights to and eliminates further prompts when they switch applications during a particular session." - Definition from Whatis.com

In Single sign-out the user will be signed-out from all authenticated applications at a single sign-out


WSO2 Stratos demonstrates the SSO concept very well. This is how user SSO experience in WSO2 Stratos.

Firstly, you need to create a domain and register you tenant in Stratos. There'll be two follow up emails. One to confirm you email address and the other to give your account details.
Following up the mails you can login to you Startos Manager page, or you can simply sign-in using the given admin credentials.

The first page you see after sign-in from admin credentials is the Stratos Manager Home page. From here you can invoke various WSO2 products which appear as services.
With SSO enabled Stratos, you can access these services without having to re-login at each entrance point (at each point where it opens up a new service for you). It is because your username and password are already authenticated and you are permited to access these multiple applications.

Afterwards, Say you have opened sevaral services where you were automatically logged-in and while you were working on one service (e.g. Cloud Gadgets), another has gone on a session expriration. No issues :), When you accessing the page it will nicely validate you by itself and make the service availble in a refreshed session.

Now, if you signout from one of the software services by clicking the 'Sign-out' link, you will be automatically signed-out from all the accessed services. That's where you will notice that Single -sign-out is in place!!!

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Introduction to WSO2 Cloud Platform

Written by Afkham Azeez

WSO2 Stratos 2010 September Workshop

View more presentations from afkham_azeez.

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Over the road of flowers..

Written by Kathiravelu Pradeeban

The last two weeks were really interesting and most remarkable. Our Advanced Database (CS4420) Module research paper "Horizontal Format Data Mining with Extended Bitmaps," got accepted for International Conference of Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition - SoCPaR-2010 (Paris, France. December 7th - 10th, 2010), under the category "Pattern Recognition," as a short paper. We got to know this exciting news on 11th of September. After a few days, on 16th, we were announced that our Mooshabaya paper too has been accepted to the 8th International Workshop on Middleware for Grids, Clouds and e-Science - MGC-2010 (Bangalore, India . November 29th - December 3rd, 2010), as a full paper, to double our joy. It should also be noted that both the projects were from us - the same 4 member team Mooshabaya, who are currently Software Engineers at WSO2.

Our job at WSO2 started with a remarkable week. The new building at #50 was opened the very same day (September) we joined. The next two days we had the WSO2Conf marking the 5 years of excellence of WSO2. The first week ended with the 5 years party at the Waters Edge. Walks between the forts of 50 and 59 over the road of flowers⚘. Loving these days... ♥ ♥ Cloud/Could Duality ;) And I am into WSO2 Stratos! I got into the Stratos (WSO2 Carbon Middleware Platform as a Service) team - Stratos Manager Component and Stratos Security as the first tasks. Finally completing one of the most remarkable fortnights with this post.

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Build WSO2 Stratos ESB from source

Written by Heshan Suriyaarachchi

Following blogpost will discuss how to build WSO2's Stratos ESB (aka Cloud ESB) from source.

1. First build carbon trunk upto features. Please follow my earlier post on building WSO2 ESB from source.

2. Checkout WSO2 Stratos source.

svn co https://svn.wso2.org/repos/wso2/trunk/stratos

Then following directories/files will be checked into your file system.

.
|-- build
|-- components
|-- features
|-- pom.xml
|-- samples
|-- services
`-- setup

3. Build Stratos components project.

heshan@heshan-laptop:~/Dev/trunk/stratos/components$ mvn clean install -Dmaven.test.skip=true

4. Build Strtos features project.

heshan@heshan-laptop:~/Dev/trunk/stratos/features$ mvn clean install -Dmaven.test.skip=true

5. Build Stratos Manager.

heshan@heshan-laptop:~/Dev/trunk/stratos/services/manager$ mvn clean install -Dmaven.test.skip=true

6. Build Stratos ESB.

heshan@heshan-laptop:~/Dev/trunk/stratos/services/esb$ mvn clean install -Dmaven.test.skip=true

7. Run the setup script.

heshan@heshan-laptop:~/Dev/trunk/stratos/setup$ ./setup.sh

8. Create the necessary databases.

mysql>CREATE DATABASE stratos_db;

mysql>CREATE DATABASE WSO2CARBON_DB;

mysql>CREATE DATABASE billing;

Create users and give necessary user-permssions.

mysql>CREATE USER 'wso2stratos'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'wso2stratos';
mysql>GRANT ALL ON *.* TO 'wso2stratos'@'localhost';

mysql>CREATE USER 'billing'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'billing';
mysql>GRANT ALL ON *.* TO 'billing'@'localhost';

Create tables.

heshan@heshan-laptop:~/Dev/trunk/stratos/services/manager/modules/distribution/target/wso2stratos-manager-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT/dbscripts$ mysql -u root -p < billing-mysql.sql billing

9. Start the Stratos Manager.
NOTE: Server should be started with -Dsetup option in the first time.

heshan@heshan-laptop:~/Dev/trunk/stratos/services/manager/modules/distribution/target/wso2stratos-manager-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT/bin$ ./wso2server.sh -Dsetup

10. Start Stratos ESB.
NOTE: Server should be started with -Dsetup option in the first time.

heshan@heshan-laptop:~/Dev/trunk/stratos/services/esb/modules/distribution/target/wso2stratos-esb-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT/bin$ ./wso2server.sh -Dsetup

11. Stop the above servers. Then startup the both the servers again without -Dsetup option.

heshan@heshan-laptop:~/Dev/trunk/stratos/services/manager/modules/distribution/target/wso2stratos-manager-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT/bin$ ./wso2server.sh
heshan@heshan-laptop:~/Dev/trunk/stratos/services/esb/modules/distribution/target/wso2stratos-esb-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT/bin$ ./wso2server.sh

12. Create a Tenent by logging into the Stratos Manager. Then using the credentials obtained, you can log into the Stratos ESB.

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