Single Cloud Clustering

Owned by Antoine Hage (Unlicensed)
Last updated: Jul 13, 2018

Overview

An environment is a network of interconnected servers with access to the same set of settings and resources such as registry, databases, network, infrastructure ...

A single cloud clustering environment offers the ability to create and operate on a clustered infrastructure using multiple technologies ( virtual machines or containers ) but limited to the same infra provider.

This environment offers tons of features to deploy your code in high availability mode (multiple instances), turn on auto-scaling, monitor metrics and analytics, and conduct several IT operations.


The Single Cloud Clustering Environment is suitable for QA and production purposes as it is designed to help you scale based on your need to handle traffic as it varies.

The environment also supplies you with tools that automate deployment and orchestration on multiple technologies and turn on Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery speeding up applying updates on already deployed components.


SOAJS allows you to can create multiple single cloud clustering environments for different products and provides you with all the tools you need to manage, orchestrate and operate in these environments.




Features & Benefits

This type of environments requires you connect with cloud providers to setup a cluster infrastructure that it will use to assist you in deploying source code and resources.

The SOAJS Console provides support to link and use multiple cloud providers and has a wide variety of templates and recipes that you can leverage to create and use a single cloud clustering environment.

SOAJS Console is also equipped with advanced and adaptable wizards that facilitate provisioning infrastructure for environments and deploying sourced code and resources in them.

Unlike the Development Environment, engineers do not need to manually turn on and off microservices, they can use the SOAJS Console to automate all deployments as well as applying later on updates.


The features of a Single Cloud Clustering Environment are classified under 4 products that all together form the SOAJS Suite:

API Lifecycle Management

Multi Cloud Orchestration

IT Ops Automation

Release Management




Creating and Operating in a Single Cloud Clustering Environment

The following elaborate how to provision, deploy and operate in a Single Cloud Clustering Environment with reference to the features SOAJS offers in its suite for cloud orchestration and high availability.

InfrastructureKey Features


  1. Link the cloud providers you want to work with
  2. Create / Import templates to create your clusters from
  3. Create / Import Environment templates to speed up your environment provisioning
  4. Create / Import Deployment Recipes
  5. Create a new Single Cloud Clustering Environment 
  6. Extend the Default Environment Registry and create Custom Entries that your microservice require
Deployment


  1. Deploy the Resources your microservices needs to communicate with
    1. Virtual Machine Layers
    2. Container Technology
  2. Create the Databases that your microservice will use on top of resources
  3. Deploy your Source Code using container technology
  • Deploy the SOAJS API Gateway and leverage the full capability of cloud awareness, multitenancy, productization and more
  • Deploy resources on demand and connect your code to them
  • Avoid writing hardcoded connection configuration in your code and use SOAJS Console for Database & Resources Management
  • Deploy your source code in high availability mode and turn on autoscaling
Management & IT Ops


  1. Upgrade your Microservice and leverage Productization and Multitenancy
    1. Create and configure Productized ACL Packages
    2. Create and configure Tenants and Security Keys
  2. Reload & Apply the configuration on your microservice
  3. Operate and Orchestrate on deployed containers
  • Transform your code to become multitenant and reuse it with different products
  • Full  Control over security protocols and in multiple environments
  • Modify and reload configuration at will with ZERO downtime!
  • Orchestrate your cloud of microservices and scale up and down based on traffic loads
Testing & Simulation



  1. Test your microservice using the API Simulator
  • Visualize and test the behavior of your code in multiple environments and using different tenant configuration
  • Ensure API quality and performance
Release Manager


  1. Link your Continuous Integration Providers
  2. Create and add recipes in your source code repositories
  3. Configure Continuous Deployment strategy
  4. Monitor automated build when code updates are pushed
  5. Test your updated microservices using the API Simulator
  • Configure and automate code updates using Continuous Integration and Delivery
  • Upgrade your components through clicks of a button