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Kubevela v1.2 release: the graphical operation console velaux you want is finally here

2022-06-24 22:26:00 【Alibaba cloud native】

author ：KubeVela Community

With the continuous development and maturity of cloud primitives , More and more infrastructure capabilities are gradually standardized into PaaS Platform or SaaS Chemical products . The birth of a product no longer requires the establishment of a team as in the past , From development 、 Test until operation and maintenance 、 The whole part of the infrastructure is completed by multiple role systems . Now , Agile organizational culture and cloud native technology drive , Making these responsibilities more “ Move left ” To the developers , Test shift left 、 Monitor shift left 、 Move left safely , as well as DevOps And a series of ideas are emphasizing , Products and services will be tested through open source projects or the cloud 、 monitor 、 Security 、 A series of affairs such as operation and maintenance are completed in advance in the development stage . This seemingly beautiful vision has brought great challenges to developers , Developers are interested in a wide variety of products and complex products at the bottom API Lack of control , They're not just making choices , More need to understand and coordinate the underlying complex and heterogeneous infrastructure capabilities , In order to meet the rapid development and iterative needs of the upper business .

This complexity and uncertainty undoubtedly greatly reduces the developer's experience , Reduce the delivery efficiency of business system , Increased operation and maintenance risk . The core of the developer experience is “ Simple ” and “ high efficiency ”, Both developers and enterprises need better developer tools or platforms to achieve . On top of modern cloud native technology, build a software to help developers develop 、 An integrated platform for delivery and subsequent continuous operation and maintenance , Has always been a KubeVela The core goal of evolution . Pictured 1 Shown , stay v1.2 In the version , We've added... Around the developer experience UI Console components （VelaUX）, Simplify the layout YAML Complexity , Improved the plug-in system construction , It enriches the expansion ability of cloud resources , Added a lot of CI/CD And so on , Further improve the developer's end-to-end use experience .

chart 1：KubeVela Architecture design

Review of the development process

Let's briefly review OAM and KubeVela The development stage and course of ：

OAM（Open Application Model） Birth and growth

Create simplicity in a complex world , The first problem we need to solve is abstraction and standardization . Alibaba cloud and Microsoft jointly launched OAM Model , Creatively put forward “ Separation of concerns ” Idea , Developers focus on the business itself 、 Operation and maintenance focuses on modularization capability .OAM The model revolves around “ Everything serves , Fully modular ” Thought , It provides a standard practice method of combining simplicity and high scalability for major manufacturers and cloud native platform builders to realize their own application management platform . Within a short year after the model was proposed, it has been included AWS、Oracle、 tencent 、 Major manufacturers at home and abroad, including Huawei, responded , It was approved by the National Academy of information and communications as an industry standard . Because everyone has a common goal , Lower the threshold of using cloud native , Make application delivery and management easier .

KubeVela Open source project v1.0 Release , Bring... To the community OAM Standard implementation of

With OAM Model as a practical guide , Senior players in the community also began to create their own tools to practice , Including ali. 、 Microsoft 、Oracle、Upbond、 A series of companies including Tencent are based on OAM We have built our own business platform under the guidance of . But for the broader group of developers and small and medium-sized enterprises , They can't directly enjoy the dividends of the model , therefore ,KubeVela As OAM The official implementation engine of the community was born . It started with 7 Families from different organizations OAM Community members build from zero to one .KubeVela The implementation of has absorbed many companies for OAM The practical experience of , At the same time combined with Kubernetes Community ecological advantages , Automation 、 Convergent 、 Idempotent and stable application release controller , around IaC（ Infrastructure is configuration ） Construct a user-friendly abstraction layer , Help developers realize out of the box based OAM Implementation engine .

KubeVela v1.1 Release , Implement application delivery workflow , Native supports multi cluster application delivery in mixed environment

With the advancement of the enterprise cloud process , A hybrid cloud 、 Diversified infrastructure such as distributed cloud has gradually become the norm .KubeVela As a modern application management system, it also conforms to the trend , The overall architecture is upgraded to a control plane for application delivery and management in a hybrid environment , All functions are naturally built on multi cluster technology . We believe that , For high availability 、 Cost performance 、 Data security and other factors , In the future, most forms of enterprise applications will be heterogeneous and diverse .KubeVela v1.1 Release of version , At the same time, it also realizes a highly scalable application publishing workflow , It is naturally presented in a mixed environment architecture , It innovatively realizes the working mode of the combination of delivery workflow and application abstraction , The final state oriented application delivery workflow is realized , Greatly simplifies the complexity of process arrangement .

The time came to 2022 year ,KubeVela It has also officially entered the fourth stage , In the original core controller API On a basically stable basis , We have added a series of out of the box functions in the form of plug-ins . Let developers go through UI The way the console works , Connect CI/CD Complete process , End to end publishing of multi cluster applications , Further enhance the developer experience .

v1.2 The core competence of the version

Graphical operation console （VelaUX）

Providing a user-friendly graphical operation interface is the preferred way to reduce the threshold for developers to use , from KubeVela Since the birth of , The community is right UI The voice of the console has always been high . from v1.2 Version start , It's officially coming . make UI The purpose of the console is to help developers assemble and manage heterogeneous business applications in a more standardized way , Help them analyze and find business faults and obstacles faster .

VelaUX [1] yes KubeVela Front end projects , When designing and implementing, it fully considers KubeVela The core point of scalability . The concept of low code platform is introduced to build the front end , Our goal is to create a user-defined application delivery input parameter that can be achieved by dragging , And realize the observable platform of operation data . To this end, we designed a front-end description specification （UISchema [2] ）, coordination KubeVela Modular definition of （X-Definition [3] ）, Through configuration, you can render rich front-end interaction elements . At the same time, in order to configure the front-end data query , We designed a multi-dimensional data custom query language （VelaQL [4] ）, This design forms KubeVela The foundation for delivering and managing heterogeneous applications .

Currently through VelaUX , Users can manage extensions , Connect Kubernetes colony , Assign delivery targets , Planning the environment and delivering all types of applications , And observe the running state of the application , Realize the complete closed loop of application delivery .

chart 2：VelaUX preview

Pictured 2 Shown ,VelaUX Some new nouns have appeared in , Please refer to the core concepts [5] Document to learn and understand .

Unified management of multiple environments

KubeVela take N individual Kubernetes colony ,N Cloud vendor services or other private cloud services are unified into a large infrastructure resource pool . On this basis , Our developers can according to business needs 、 Process requirements 、 Division environment of multiple business dimensions such as team requirements . Form environmental space on the basis of large resource pool . The same application can be published to different environments , The environment is completely isolated from management to operation .

chart 3： Multiple environments / Multi cluster application management page

Pictured 3 Shown , Applications can be released to production 、 test 、 Default to three environments , Each environment can include multiple delivery targets , Behind each delivery goal can be independent Kubernetes colony .

Standardized delivery of heterogeneous applications

In the cloud native system , We have many choices in the form of delivering applications . be based on Kubernetes infrastructure , We can both through mature Helm Chart Package delivery middleware and third-party open source applications , Enterprise business applications can also be delivered through image , You can also use OpenYurt Deliver management edge applications . Based on the openness of cloud service providers , We can deliver the database 、 news 、 Cache and other middleware , There are also logs 、 Application monitoring and other operation and maintenance capabilities .

For so many options ,KubeVela Use standard OAM Standardize the unified delivery and management of heterogeneous applications .KubeVela A highly scalable delivery system , Through the built-in 、 Community sharing and other forms help users expand the platform , Handle heterogeneous applications with consistent delivery and management experience . stay KubeVela above , What developers see is modularity 、 Everything is a service management form .

chart 4： Cloud service application management page

Pictured 4 Shown , We can see , The same application management page , Users can easily access cloud service applications . Developers can view the delivery process of heterogeneous applications by reading the following documents ：

deliver Docker Mirror image [6]
deliver Helm Chart package [7]
deliver Kubernetes resources [8]
deliver The cloud service [9]

Extended architecture （Addon）

KubeVela From the beginning, it was designed as a micro kernel highly scalable system , We talked about heterogeneous applications ,KubeVela By extending the system , In a standardized form , Expand unlimited application delivery capabilities . Not only match the differential demands of enterprises , Nor does it bring too much cognitive burden .KubeVela Extensible points in include component types 、 Operation and maintenance capacity 、 Workflow type 、 Application delivery strategy, etc . In the current version , We released Addon Extended architecture .Addon It is the carrier of various expansion capabilities of the organization , It is easy to distribute and manage .

chart 5：KubeVela Plug in management page

At present, it already exists in the official warehouse, as shown in the figure 5 Available... As shown Addon. At the same time, in the experimental warehouse, we are working with community users to actively create more expansion capabilities . Of course , It requires the active participation of every community Developer .

Up to now ,KubeVela It has grown into an application delivery platform that can directly serve the majority of developers , What scenarios can the enterprise use directly KubeVela Well ？ We have sorted out the following common scenarios ：

Enterprise development scenario solutions

Multi cluster application DevOps

In past community exchanges , We found that the mainstream R & D systems of enterprises are similar, as shown in the figure 6 The structure shown , They use the computing resources provided by cloud service providers as production resources 、 Demo environment . Use your own purchased or historical servers to build and develop 、 Test environment . If the business has multiple regions or disaster recovery needs , Production environments may need to be deployed to multiple regions or clouds .

chart 6： Multi cluster application practice architecture

For basic DevOps technological process , Including code hosting and CI/CD Link .KubeVela At present, we provide you with CD Link support . The steps for enterprise practice are as follows ：

Prepare local or cloud service resources according to the actual situation . At least get through the network of local and cloud resources , It is convenient for centralized management of resources .
take KubeVela The system is built in the production environment , Ensure continuous availability .
adopt KubeVela Deploy Gitlab、Jenkins、Sonar etc. DevOps Tools , And get through the tool chain . Usually , The availability of code hosting and development tools is critical , We need to deploy it in a production environment （ If your local computer room has production availability , And hope that the code data will flow in the local environment , It can be deployed in the local computer room ）.
adopt KubeVela Planning the local development environment , Deploy middleware for local testing , Planning production environment and deploying cloud service middleware .
adopt Jenkins Build business code CI Assembly line , Produce Docker Mirror handover KubeVela Multi environment deployment , Form a complete application delivery workflow .

combination KubeVela Multi cluster application DevOps The scheme has the following advantages ：

（1） Developers don't need to master too much Kubernetes Ecological knowledge , It can realize the native deployment of heterogeneous application cloud .

（2） Multi cluster , Unified management of multiple environments , Native deployable cross cluster applications .

（3） Unified application management mode , Whether it's business application or development tool chain .

（4） Flexible workflow , Help enterprises get through various development standard processes .

Integrated management of mixed environment

Different enterprises often have different infrastructure and business demands . On the infrastructure side ： Enterprises may have built a private cloud , May have purchased a public cloud , There may also be edge computing resources . On the business side ： Different business scales are different , Different resource requirements , There may be multi cloud and multi live applications , There are also enterprise legacy systems . On the R & D side ： Business R & D often needs to develop 、 test 、 Pre release and production environment . On the management side ： Different business teams need to be isolated from each other , The business needs to be interconnected .

Over time , Due to the influence of responsibility boundary and different division of labor , It will gradually form a state in which different business teams are independent or even separated from each other , This fragmentation includes ： Development tools are fragmented , The technical architecture is fragmented , Business management forms are separated .KubeVela Uphold “ Respect reality , Active innovation ” Principles , The solution is to use high expansion ability to accommodate differences in the process of pursuing unity .

In the face of infrastructure differences , We support Kubernetes API、 The cloud service API Or other custom API The form of , To fully model the infrastructure . Finally, through the unified OAM Consistent conceptual exposure .
In the face of business architecture differences , The application model is open , No requirements for Architecture .KubeVela What we do is connect and empower , Connect to existing systems , Support new ecological technologies through the expansion mechanism .
Facing the difference of development tool chain , There may already be different development tool chains in the enterprise , Produce different business products .KubeVela Support all kinds of products through extension and standard model , Achieve its standardized delivery . Of course , Its standard is gradually derived to the front link , Help enterprises gradually realize the consistency of tool chain . therefore , You don't have to worry about what you use Gitlab still Jenkins, It can dock .
In the face of differences in operation and maintenance capabilities , The operation and maintenance capabilities of different teams in the enterprise 、 Tool schemes can be found in KubeVela Gradually accumulate under the norms of , Ability intercommunication . More operation and maintenance capabilities are also shared and reused in the dimension of the community .

therefore , Use KubeVela To open up business as an enterprise , Basic platform for unified capacity-building , It can be landed 、 There are plans for the future .

Customize enterprise publishing platform

from Heroku 、Cloud Foundry Times begin , The market has been producing different PaaS platform , We all know that fixed mode publishing platforms are often not suitable for all enterprises . for instance , Some enterprises with a high degree of Standardization , They are based on the characteristics of the business , When publishing an application, you only need to update the image name , However, using universal PaaS You have to understand a lot of concepts and parameters . Another example is that an enterprise produces AI application , about AI Application publishing is quite different from ordinary applications , Then you need to customize AI Of the scene PaaS, Companies have to pay more and learn more concepts .

When general products do not meet the needs of enterprises , Self research is the real demand of existence . But for the self-developed platform from scratch , It is necessary to invest a lot of human and material resources , Even more than the investment in the core business of the enterprise , It seems that the gain is not worth the loss .KubeVela It also takes into account the unique demands of enterprises with self-research ability , They can be based on KubeVela Microkernel 、 Highly scalable design , According to their own business scenarios and domain knowledge , Build your own 、 More simple and easy-to-use business platform .

For enterprises that need a self-developed publishing platform ,KubeVela The microkernel is a PaaS Platform R & D framework . One side , Enterprises can develop or install various functional plug-ins of the community according to their own needs ; On the other hand , Enterprises can also be based on OAM Model modification modular configuration , Add or cut parameters used by users . This modular design can greatly reduce the investment cost of enterprises , At the same time, it can keep up with the development trend of the community , Turn more advanced technologies of the community into their own productivity at any time .

Participation in the community

Made so many introductions , Are you right KubeVela There are some new understandings about the development of , No product is an absolute silver bullet , There is no one solution to all the problems . But our ideal is to create a standardized model , Let more enterprises, developers and users participate in this competition “ Simple ” and “ Efficient ” In the battle of developer experience .KubeVela Still very young , We hope you can join us to build . Thank you very much for your participation in KubeVela Contributing 100 Multiple developers [10] , It is because of your joint efforts , To make our community more prosperous .

To build OAM Application specification

about OAM Application specification , The updating and upgrading of the model is based on KubeVela Practice driven , But it doesn't bind KubeVela Realization . It is KubeVela Summary and abstraction of practical experience in cloud native application delivery and management , It is the best practice and core idea to create a standardized application management system . We welcome cloud vendors very much 、 Platform vendors 、 End users can participate , At the same time, we are also pleased to see that many domestic manufacturers, including Tencent, are interested in OAM Attention and support of application specifications . anybody 、 Organizations can express your ideas 、 Suggestions and thoughts .

Participate in OAM Model discussion ：

https://github.com/oam-dev/spec

To build Addon Expand Ecology

As described above , We've turned it on Addon The extended system of , The creators of the community are very welcome 、 Developers can contribute more extension capabilities .

How to expand and contribute Addon Reference documents ：

https://kubevela.net/zh/docs/platform-engineers/addon/intro

Contribute cloud service capabilities

KubeVela Through integration Terraform Module To expand cloud service integration capabilities , We have supported common cloud resources [11] , Welcome community friends to refer to and contribute more cloud service manufacturers and products .

How to expand and contribute cloud resources Reference documents ：

https://kubevela.net/zh/docs/platform-engineers/components/component-terraform

Feedback on your needs or pain points

Maybe you're an ordinary Developer , Or maybe you are a practitioner in the field of cloud Nativity , If you agree with our direction , Recognize what we are doing , We welcome your participation in KubeVela In the community discussion .

Community discussion ：

https://github.com/oam-dev/kubevela

KubeVela Speed up website access

KubeVela The official documents are hosted in GitHub （https://github.com/oam-dev/kubevela.io ） On , If you find any mistakes or omissions or want to participate in the translation , Welcome to contribute directly to the project . At the same time, in order to speed up the access of domestic users , We added kubevela.net This domain name , It can facilitate domestic users to visit faster , Content and kubevela.io Your domain name is exactly the same 、 Real time synchronization .

KubeVela yes CNCF Sandbox project , Learn more , Please click on