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What is Modern Application Development
Modern application development approach that enables you to innovate rapidly by using cloud-native architectures with loosely coupled microservices, managed databases, AI, DevOps support, and built-in monitoring.
Key Design Factors
- Utilize systems fully leverage the cloud service model using PaaS compute infrastructure and managed services.
- Systems should continue to run as infrastructure scales in or out without worrying about the back- end infrastructure because those elements are fully managed.
- Systems and Services should have auto scaling, self-healing, and monitoring capabilities.
- Modern Design is highly effective in part due to the standard practices Application method, which is a set of principles that developers follow to construct applications optimized for modern cloud environments.
Critical Considerations for Modern Design
- Communication — How front ends communication with back-end services, and how back-end services communicate with each other.
- Resiliency — How services in your distributed architecture respond in less-than-ideal scenarios due to the in-process, out-process network communications of microservices architecture.
- Distributed Data — How do you query data or implement a transaction across multiple services?
- Identity — How does your service identify who is accessing it and their designated permissions?
What are Microservices?
Microservices are built as a distributed set of small, independent services that interact through a shared fabric or container.
Agility with Microservices
- Each microservice has an autonomous lifecycle and can evolve independently and deploy frequently.
- Each microservice can scale independently, enabling services to scale to meet demand. Those microservices are then packaged a container image, those images are stored in container registry. When needed you transform the container into a running container instance, to utilize the stored microservices.
Benefits of Containers
- Provide portability and guarantee consistency across environments.
- Containers can isolate microservices and their dependencies from the underlying infrastructure.
- Smaller footprints than full virtual machines (VMs). That smaller size increases density, the number of microservices, that a given host can run at a time.
Automation Benefits
- Infrastructure and Code (IaC) avoid manual environment creation and delivers stable configuration to rapidly scale.
- Application code development leverages CI/CD technologies to increase efficiency and quality of the final product.
Integrations
Integration is needed to integrate applications by connecting multiple independent systems. The four core cloud services to meet integration needs are:
- Publish and manage application programming interfaces (APIs).
- Create and run integration logic, typically with a graphical tool for defining the workflow’s logic.
- A method for applications and integration technologies to communicate in a loosely coupled way via messaging.
- A technology that supports step logic communication via events
CI/CD Methodology
Blue/Green Deployment Pattern
This is a method of continuous deployment that is commonly used to reduce downtime. This is where traffic is transferred from one instance to another. In order to include a fresh version of code, we must replace the old code with a new code version.
The new version exists in a green environment and the old version exists in a blue environment. After making changes to the previous version, we need a new instance from the old one to execute a newer version of the instance.
Tools Technologies and Services Used
Container | Orchestration | Pod Hosts
Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR)
Amazon ECR Amazon ECR is a fully managed container registry offering high-performance hosting, so you can reliably deploy application images and artifacts anywhere.
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
Amazon Container Service Amazon ECS is a fully managed container orchestration service that makes it easy for you to deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications.
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
Amazon EKS Amazon EKS is a managed Kubernetes service to run Kubernetes in the AWS cloud and on-premises data centers. In the cloud, Amazon EKS
Apache Tomcat®
Tomcat 10 Software The Apache Tomcat® software is an open source implementation of the Jakarta Servlet, Jakarta Server Pages, Jakarta Expression Language, Jakarta WebSocket, Jakarta
Docker
Docker makes development efficient and predictable Docker takes away repetitive, mundane configuration tasks and is used throughout the development lifecycle for fast, easy and portable
Kubernetes
Production-Grade Container Orchestration Kubernetes, also known as K8s, is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. Vendor Website
Nomad by HashiCorp
Orchestration Made Easy A simple and flexible scheduler and orchestrator to deploy and manage containers and non-containerized applications across on-prem and clouds at scale. Vendor
Docker Containers
Nexus 3 – Image Repository
Server Description A Dockerfile for Sonatype Nexus Repository Manager 3, starting with 3.18 the image is based on the Red Hat Universal Base Image while earlier versions
Application Monitoring
PagerDuty
Orchestrate the right response for every incident. Protect revenue and improve customer experiences by resolving critical incidents faster and preventing future occurrences. Bring major incident
Datadog
Application Monitoring and log processing Modern Infrastructure Monitoring Complete visibility into infrastructure performance with effortless deployment, minimal maintenance, and unparalleled breadth of coverage. Vendor Website
API Resources
WSO2 API Manager
Open-source Platform for Building and Managing APIs One complete platform for building, integrating, and exposing your digital services as managed APIs in the cloud, on-premises,
Automation Tools
Ansible
Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform is a foundation for building and operating automation across an organization. The platform includes all the tools needed to implement
Packer by HashiCorp
Images as code Packer standardizes and automates the process of building system images. Create one workflow for images across multiple clouds and private infrastructure. Vendor
Rundeck by PagerDuty
Runbook automation With runbook automation, engineers can standardize operating procedures, define automated jobs incorporating other existing automation, and safely delegate these processes as APIs and
Terraform Enterprise
Cloud Automation Terraform Enterprise is our self-hosted distribution of Terraform Cloud. It offers enterprises a private instance of the Terraform Cloud application, with no resource limits
CI/CD Platforms
Jenkins
CI/CD Platform The leading open source automation server, Jenkins provides hundreds of plugins to support building, deploying and automating any project.
Cloud Complience and Management
AWS CloudTrail
Overview AWS CloudTrail monitors and records account activity across your AWS infrastructure, giving you control over storage, analysis, and remediation actions.
AWS CloudWatch
Overview Amazon CloudWatch collects and visualizes real-time logs, metrics, and event data in automated dashboards to streamline your infrastructure and application maintenance.
AWS Control Tower
Overview AWS Control Tower simplifies AWS experiences by orchestrating multiple AWS services on your behalf while maintaining the security and compliance needs of your organization.
AWS Organizations
Overview AWS Organizations lets you create new AWS accounts at no additional charge. With accounts in an organization, you can easily allocate resources, group accounts,
AWS Service Catalog
Overview AWS Service Catalog lets you centrally manage deployed IT services, applications, resources, and metadata to achieve consistent governance of your infrastructure as code (IaC)
CloudCheckr
Take Control of Your Cloud CloudCheckr brings visibility and intelligence to help you lower costs, maintain security and compliance, and optimize resources. Manage your single
Directory Services
AWS Directory Service
Amazon Service AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory, also known as AWS Managed Microsoft AD, activates your directory-aware workloads and AWS resources to use
AWS IAM Identity Center
Amazon Service AWS IAM Identity Center (successor to AWS Single Sign-On) helps you securely create or connect your workforce identities and manage their access centrally
OpenDJ
LDAPv3 compliant directory service OpenDJ is an LDAPv3 compliant directory service, which has been developed for the Java platform, providing a high performance, highly available,
Drawing Tools
LucidChart
Diagram your people, processes, and systems Take advantage of powerful features that will help your team communicate complex ideas while collaborating in real time.
Developer Interfaces
Visual Studio Code
Developer Interface Visual Studio Code is a streamlined code editor with support for development operations like debugging, task running, and version control. It aims to
Developer Launguages
Python
Overview Python is a programming language that lets you work quickly and integrate systems more effectively Vendor Website
Event Logging and Visualization
Grafana Loki
Overview With Grafana Logs, you can send logs in any format, from any source so it’s really easy to add to your existing infrastructure and
Kibana
Overview Kibana is a free and open user interface that lets you visualize your Elasticsearch data and navigate the Elastic Stack. Do anything from tracking
Logstash
Overview Logstash is a free and open server-side data processing pipeline that ingests data from a multitude of sources, transforms it, and then sends it to
Identity-based networking
Consul by HashiCorp
Identity-based networking Consul uses service identities and traditional networking practices to help organizations securely connect applications running in any environment. Vendor Website Key Features Discover
Proxies
Fabio Reverse Proxy
Fabio is an HTTP and TCP reverse proxy Configures itself with data from Consul. Traditional load balancers and reverse proxies need to be configured with
HAProxy
HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller This is the documentation for the HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller and the HAProxy Enterprise Kubernetes Ingress Controller. Both give you a way to route
Managed Secrets - Part of Zero Trust Framework
Vault by HashiCorp
Manage Secrets & Protect Sensitive Data Secure, store and tightly control access to tokens, passwords, certificates, encryption keys for protecting secrets and other sensitive data
Zero Trust Frame Work – Modern Software Development
Zero Trust Framework Services Why implement zero trust technology? Hashi Corp Inc. has commissioned a study to make a prediction of the total industry losses
Message Brokers
RabbitMQ
Open source message broker RabbitMQ is lightweight and easy to deploy on premises and in the cloud. It supports multiple messaging protocols. RabbitMQ can be
Project Management - Collboration
Confluence by Atlassian
Collaboration Dev/Ops Confluence is your remote-friendly team workspace where knowledge and collaboration meet Vendor Website
Jira Dev/Ops Projects by Atlassian
Project Management Dev/Ops The DevOps template is designed for high-performing teams to save time and reduce errors by managing work from a variety of tools
TOPdesk
ITSM SOFTWARE ITSM software brings your IT services together in one place, so it’s easy to share knowledge, answer questions and solve problems. You’ll give
Remote Access Tools
VPN Remote Access – Development
Overview Secure remote access is a game changer for and hybrid workforces. But to truly take advantage of those benefits, it’s imperative that your organization develops
Repositories
Bitbucket Cloud
Code & CI/CD, built for teams using Jira What is Bitbucket? With best-in-class Jira integration, and built-in CI/CD, Bitbucket Cloud is the native Git tool