Solution Overview

Scenarios

As emerging business models continue to disrupt traditional sectors such as finance, energy, manufacturing, automobile, and government, enterprises in these sectors are realizing that they cannot rely on traditional competition methods to stay ahead. To remain competitive in today's rapidly evolving landscape, they are turning to digital transformation. Digital transformation allows enterprises to quickly understand user needs, make necessary adjustments, and accelerate product updates. This leads to continuous improvement of user experience and customer satisfaction, ultimately resulting in a competitive advantage in the market. Enterprises often encounter challenges during digital transformation, including:

• Insufficient management support, heavy reliance on technology outsourcing, high costs due to siloed infrastructure management, and difficulty managing complex infrastructure scenarios like multi-cloud environments
• A need for quick resource supply to meet production-level requirements for service development, incomplete proprietary systems, and the need for elastic architectures to support services
• Difficult, error-prone Kubernetes O&M changes, slow service troubleshooting, and low resource utilization

By using advanced technologies such as containers, Kubernetes, and microservices, cloud native solutions can significantly speed up software development and iteration, enhance application architecture agility, improve IT resource elasticity and availability, and ultimately help enterprise customers accelerate their digital transformation efforts.

Solution Architecture

Alauda Container Platform (ACP) is an enterprise-grade full-stack cloud native open platform that goes beyond the traditional cloud native framework of container platform, DevOps, and microservices. ACP is built on Kubernetes-centered cloud native technologies and helps enterprises rapidly develop a next-generation full-stack cloud platform. This platform includes modules for cloud native infrastructure, cloud native application management, cloud native DevOps, unified O&M, and governance. ACP uses a container native architecture with Kubernetes as its foundation and control plane. It offers one-click deployment, automatic O&M, and continuous upgrades, while also providing openness, flexibility, and scalability.

ACP helps to bridge the gaps between different infrastructures and serves as a control plane for hybrid clouds. It supports orchestration of various cloud environments and infrastructures, accelerating the development of application-centric hybrid clouds. ACP is an application-focused platform that can manage the entire application lifecycle using modules such as infrastructure, application management, and DevOps tools. It offers a full-stack, out-of-the-box solution that you can set up and get running fast.

Figure 1 Service architecture

Advantages

• Hybrid and multi-cloud management

  ACP can manage any Kubernetes distribution in any environment, automate Kubernetes cluster lifecycle management at scale, ensure consistent configuration, security, and compliance across all environments, and provide a unified operations and consistent experience.

• Developer self-service

  With ACP's fully customizable application and infrastructure abstraction, you can easily adopt infrastructure as code (IaC) and GitOps best practices. This simplifies your infrastructure and reduces cognitive load. Additionally, ACP provides built-in and customizable internal developer portals to enhance the developer experience.

• Quick setup of a PaaS container platform

  ACP assists enterprise customers in various fields to rapidly construct a PaaS container platform, moving their existing infrastructure to a next-generation cloud container platform with just a few clicks. ACP helps you manage the complete lifecycle of your containers.

• Continuous expansion and integration of Kubernetes ecosystem tools

  ACP is closely linked with Kubernetes. With the Kubernetes native architecture as its framework, an increasing number of Kubernetes ecosystem tools, systems, add-ons, and solutions and compatible with and have been integrated into ACP. This ensures that you have access to competitive cutting-edge technologies, thereby maintaining your core competitiveness.

• Automatic container scheduling

  ACP automatically creates Kubernetes resource objects. It establishes application models and creation processes that meet service requirements, and integrates the Kubernetes resource creation processes with the service processes.

• Secure DevOps

  ACP uses DevSecOps to ensure security throughout the application lifecycle. It automates security protection to safeguard the environment and data, while also implementing CI/CD and ensuring the security of containerized applications. On ACP, centralized management of user identity and access control functions is possible. ACP also integrates with security scanning programs for containers.

• Continuously improved IT operations

  Quality and security serve as the foundation for the full lifecycle management of software, from requirements to deployment and rollout. The offline IT production process is transformed into a highly automatic and visualized online IT production pipeline, resulting in improved product R&D efficiency, quick response to service requirements, and continuous improvement of IT operations.