Orchestrated Container Architecture with Kubernetes

Usage Engine Private Edition has been designed with Kubernetes based container deployment as the primary deployment environment. A lot of effort is put into making the application take advantage of powerful Kubernetes features such as: 

• Self-healing and monitoring 
• Auto scaling 
• Networking and hooking into cloud environment load balancers 
• Management of packages, certificates, persistence, and other resources 
• Automatic zero downtime upgrades 
• Location transparency and DNS based service discovery 
• Optional interaction into powerful tools like: 
  • Istio for service mesh architecture with traffic control and visualization using Kiali 
  • Prometheus for automatic metrics-based monitoring and visualization using Grafana 
  • Fluentd, Elasticsearch and Kibana for log collection and visualization 
  • cert-manager for automatic certificate management 
     

By using the Operator pattern to seamlessly integrate application specific functionality with Kubernetes orchestration functionality and extending that to modern Web UIs, we enable a smooth journey from business logic design into production ready deployment.