- Manifest ManagementManifest Management
- Application Update LifecycleApplication Update Lifecycle
- Volume ManagementVolume Management
- Dynamic ParametersDynamic Parameters
- Kubernetes Cluster SupportKubernetes Cluster Support
- Kubernetes RBACKubernetes RBAC
- Network & Traffic managementNetwork & Traffic management
- Kubernetes AutoscalingKubernetes Autoscaling
- Associating Pods To NodesAssociating Pods To Nodes
- Integration with VM (Legacy) ServicesIntegration with VM (Legacy) Services
Application Update Lifecycle
Pain Point
On one end, you need integration with a CI tool like Jenkins or CircleCI to push the latest updates to the code. Manually integrating CI with every Docker container in an application would be a tedious and nonproductive activity.
On the other end, developers need to use deployment strategies such as Canary and Blue Green for a controlled delivery process. In the case of Blue/Green Deployment, Kubernetes requires multiple deployments for each container and manually switching between these deployments by upscaling or downscaling each container. In the case of Canary deployment, developers are required to manually review and analyze application statistics and manually change the weight for each stage based on those statistics.
The following is an example snippet for a Blue/Green Deployment YAML. Here Tomcat v7 is deployed as Blue and Tomcat v8 is deployed as Green.
blue-deployment.yaml
apiVersion: apps/v1 kind: Deployment metadata: name: tomcat-deployment-blue spec: replicas: 2 selector: matchLabels: app: nginx template: metadata: labels: app: tomcat role: blue spec: containers: - name: tomcat-container image: tomcat:7 ports: - containerPort: 8080 readinessProbe: httpGet: path: / port: 8080
svc.yaml
kind: Service apiVersion: v1 metadata: name: tomcat-service labels: app: tomcat role: blue env: prod spec: type: LoadBalancer selector: app: tomcat role: blue ports: - port: 80 targetPort: 8080
green-deployment.yaml
apiVersion: apps/v1 kind: Deployment metadata: name: tomcat-deployment-green spec: replicas: 2 selector: matchLabels: app: nginx template: metadata: labels: app: tomcat role: green spec: containers: - name: tomcat-container image: tomcat:8 ports: - containerPort: 8080 readinessProbe: httpGet: path: / port: 8080
How CloudPlex addresses your pain
CloudPlex supports all major CI tools (e.g. Jenkins, CircleCI, Bitbucket etc. ). You just have to integrate webhook in your CI pipeline which is just a simple copy paste operation. Deploying Blue/Green, Canary, and Highlander version upgrades are super easy with Cloudplex. Developers can design multi-stage deployment pipelines and deployment strategy visually. All the configurations required are handled by the platform.
Configure blue/green

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