Containerized Environment

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 containerized environment offers the ability to create and operate on a clustered infrastructure using container technology.

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 Containerized Environment is suitable for Development, QA & 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 orchestrate containers, turn on Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery speeding up applying updates on already deployed components.

SOAJS allows you to can create multiple containerized 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 an already created container clusters supporting both Docker Swarm and Kubernetes and uses this cluster as infrastructure.

SOAJS Console is equipped with advanced and adaptable wizards that facilitate creating containerized environments and deploying source 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 Containerized Environment are classified under 4 products that all together form the SOAJS Suite:

API Lifecycle Management	Multi Cloud Orchestration	IT Ops Automation	Release Management
Productization Access Levels Multitenancy Multi Security Integration with Git Providers Cataloging Create Microservice & Endpoints	Container Technology Integration Deployment Recipes Environment Templates Custom Registries Resources Management & Deployment Database Management	Cloud Orchestration Service Maintenance Operations Metrics & Analytics Code Updates Version Upgrades	Continuous Integration Continuous Delivery

Creating and Operating in a Containerized Environment

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

Infrastructure		Key Features
	Link the container technology cluster you want to work on Create / Import Environment templates to speed up your environment provisioning Create / Import Deployment Recipes Create a new Containerized Environment Extend the Default Environment Registry and create Custom Entries that your microservice require	Create reusable templates and deploy multiple environments from them Standardize deploying source code and resources as containers using recipes Create Dynamic Custom configuration for your code, share it and secure it with other components
Deployment
	Deploy the Resources your microservices needs to communicate with in containers Create the Databases that your microservice will use on top of resources Deploy your Source Code using container technology	Deploy the 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
	Upgrade your Microservice and leverage Productization and Multitenancy Create and configure Productized ACL Packages Create and configure Tenants and Security Keys Reload & Apply the configuration on your microservice 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
	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
	Link your Continuous Integration Providers Create and add recipes in your source code repositories Configure Continuous Deployment strategy Monitor automated build when code updates are pushed 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

Overview

Features & Benefits

API Lifecycle Management

Multi Cloud Orchestration

IT Ops Automation

Creating and Operating in a Containerized Environment