Profisea saluted as Amazon RDS Delivery Partner

17.08.2022

Profisea, a leading Israeli DevOps and Cloud boutique company with more than seven years of experience in Cloud Migration, Optimization, and Management services, has received Amazon RDS Delivery Partner Designation.

Profisea, whose team of experts is known for best industry practices and top-notch AWS services, including relational database services (RDS) for open-source database engines such as MySQL and PostgreSQL, empowers customer-tailored software release pipelines through cloud environments to accelerate time-to-market at a lower cost.

AWS – most broadly adopted cloud platform

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s cloud computing division, heads the leader list in the cloud industry market for several years, providing computing, storage, database, and many other services. AWS provides relational database services (RDS) for open source database engines (MySQL and PostgreSQL) with various computing, memory, and storage options tailored to different workloads. Amazon RDS also offers multi-availability zone capabilities in most AWS regions to provide automatic failover and improve application availability.

Profisea recognized as Amazon RDS Delivery Partner

As an Amazon RDS Delivery Partner, Profisea designs and implements well-architected database architectures helping facilitate faster collaboration for our customers’ teams by taking care of the following DevOps tasks:

establishing data multi-operational mechanism of large data volumes
implementing well-engineered business logic for data operations
setting up automated data backups and an effective disaster recovery plan
enabling high-availability of database environments via various Availability Zones
ensuring the safety of sensitive data via Amazon RDS encryption
enabling continuous data reading, data analytics, and reporting processes
guaranteeing and upholding a 99.999% uptime and enhanced fault tolerance capabilities
improving infrastructure maintainability and operability due to well-rounded automation with Amazon RDS
increasing the teams’ productivity due to complete automation of previously manual data management processes
setting up continuous monitoring, notification systems, and continuous vulnerability checks for database workloads.

Certified AWS Partner to take you on a cloud journey

Profisea experts are capable of humanizing technology by carefully studying the requirements of our customers/partners and collaboratively developing customized cloud solutions that perfectly fit your business needs. Profisea specialists become part of your team and implement DevOps best practices to design, build, operate, secure, and scale unique cloud environments with the sole goal of maximizing performance, enabling faster deployment, improving product quality, and reducing time to market.

Top 2021 DevOps & CloudOps Conferences You Don’t Want to Miss

26.08.2021

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It is very difficult to assess the benefits of participating in a conference. In truth, contacting other experts is undoubtedly the most important one. You can be a junior or mid-range developer and you can meet a senior DevOps team leader with years of experience that can completely change the way you think about this subject. During conferences, you can get acquainted with the real icons of their craft. Each conference’s main goal is to promote advanced research and the latest technologies, research, development, exchange of ideas and, of course, networking. As such, in this article, we’ll discuss why DevOps engineers, IT leaders, and every DevOps-devoted person should attend DevOps/CloudOps conferences, which of them are worth attending in 2021, and how to get the most out of the conference.

Conference: reasons to attend

What are the main reasons to become a conference participant or speaker :

Feedback. You can receive an expert opinion on your latest work. It doesn’t matter whether you are this conference speaker or not, you can discuss your recent achievements with your colleagues to hear their honest opinion. Plus, experts will definitely provide you with many helpful tips and advice.
Growth & development. While attending a conference, you learn about the latest discoveries in your field even before they are published because many experts try to demonstrate results that have not yet been published in the world at conferences.
Upgrade. You improve your skills at conferences including interpersonal skills, communication skills, both oral and written. You totally work on your listening skills and get precious debate experience when engaging in discussions at conferences.
Networking. You are creating a system of connection that helps you build networks with people who are real experts in your field. Quite often, you need the advice of an experienced professional, and the easiest way to talk to such an expert is to chat with him/her during a conference.
Fine CV line. IT managers pay close attention to how candidates are developing and what they are doing to keep the process moving forward. It’s great when this line appears in your resume.

2021 DevOps & CloudOps Conferences worth attending

Name: DevOps World

Date: September 29-30, 2021

Place: Virtual

Price: Free

DevOps World is a chance to gain inspiration from experts and peers and tools you need to shape the future of software delivery in your organization. It serves the entire DevOps ecosystem and brings together opinion leaders, practitioners and community members from around the world, giving members the opportunity to learn, explore, virtualize, and together change the future of software delivery.

Name: Google Cloud Next

Date: October 12-14

Place: Virtual

Price: Free

In 2020, Google presented Cloud Next: OnAir, a virtual version of its annual cloud computing conference. Next ’21 is for everyone — from developers to CEOs and everyone interested in exploring how cloud technology can help them solve their biggest business challenges. This year, you’ll find that Next ‘21 is a customizable digital adventure, allowing you to easily create your very own personalized journey. Each day, you’ll have the opportunity to engage with featured live experiences and attend on-demand content that aligns with your day, and your interests. How you build your learning journey at Next ’21 is totally up to you.

Name: 2021 All Day DevOps

Date: October 28, 2021

Place: Virtual

Price: Free

All Day DevOps (ADDO) is the world’s largest DevOps conference and has been running virtually for the last six years. The ADDO conference has 180+ speakers over 24 hours across six tracks — Continuous Everything, Modern Infrastructure, DevSecOps, Cultural Transformation, Site Reliability Engineering, and Government. With something to appeal to all on the agenda, technology teams across the world can look forward to exploring focus areas as well as seeing firsthand how other leading organizations are improving their DevOps practices.

Name: AWS re:Invent

Date: November 29 – December 3

Place: Las Vegas, NV

Price: TBD

As the dominant player in the market, AWS’ flagship conference is the biggest event in cloud computing every year. It’s typically held in Las Vegas the week after Thanksgiving. Hear the latest from AWS at re:Invent. Be the first to learn about new product launches and hear directly from AWS leaders as they share the latest advances in AWS technologies and set the future product direction.

Name: Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations, and Cloud Strategies Conference

Date: December 6-8

Place: Las Vegas, NV/Virtual

Price: TBD

Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference 2021 will focus on how to embrace change and meet the growing needs of the enterprise by optimizing workloads, increasing efficiency, and building resilient systems and teams. Take this opportunity to stay ahead of disruptive forces and future trends and influence the future of your business.

5 hacks to get the most out of a conference

Some conferences are quite helpful, but some of them can be frustrating and disappointing to the participants. Here are 5 tips to help you get the most out of your conference attendance.

Learn info about the conference from a credible source and consult people who already attended this conference. In this particular case, a rumor mill can be quite helpful when you get information from former participants on what sessions are worthy and so on.
Make a plan. Study the program the day before the conference and choose a couple of sessions and talks worth attending, but don’t try to cover everything, you don’t want to run like a hamster in a wheel.
Get in touch with organizers. Sometimes conference organizers need urgent help with ceremony management. Even a simple offer of your help will surely make you noticable.
Talk to people. Ask as many questions as you need and don’t be afraid to sound overly assertive. True experts adore sharing their knowledge and experience. And make sure your name tag is visible.
Contact the people you meet at the conference afterward. Plus, if you enjoyed the conference, don’t forget to compliment the organizers and post positive feedback on social media platforms.

Wrapping things up

Engineers must keep up with new technologies as the flexible nature of software means that IT professionals need to regularly acquire new skills, and seek new opportunities. It has never been more important to revitalize your experience, connect with other experts, share ideas, ask questions and get answers from colleagues and, as a result, enrich your profiles, especially as DevOps engineers. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us and Profisea experts will help you with any DevOps and CloudOps-related issues you have and achieve the best-in-class DevOps-as-a-service for your business.

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Microservices: Everything worth knowing!

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Monolith or Microservices? While IT companies are still debating on these architecture types, we, as a mature DevOps company successfully practicing microservice-style of software designing, decided to discuss the microservices main perks and more valuable microservice-related information. It makes perfect sense as according to Statista,

“in 2021, 85% of respondents from large organizations with 5,000 or more employees are currently using microservices which suggests that big enterprises are more likely to require microservice utilization in their operations”. And according to O’Reilly’s research “Microservices Adoption in 2020,”

77% of respondents (1,502 software engineers, systems and technical architects, engineers, and decision-makers from large and SMDOs) have adopted microservices, with 92% experiencing success with them.

Microservices: explained.

‘Micro’ means small, and microservices are a set of small, easily deployable applications that must execute business logic. By interacting with each other using various technologies such as API or HTTP protocols, these services are created separately from others and have completely autonomous deployment paths.

What are the pros and cons of microservice architecture? Microservices are better coordinated as the entire base is divided into smaller services that perform separate tasks. Considering each technician can work with each module individually and deploy it independently of other modules, we argue that delivery is more flexible and much faster than monolithic applications. Unlike monolithic architecture, microservices are smoothly scalable because there is no need to extend the entire system. In addition, a microservices-style architecture is more robust because the failure of a single module does not affect the entire infrastructure. However, microservice architecture designing and implementing is not a piece of cake. Generally, it takes more time and effort to work with all microservices. Moreover, quite often the deployment is difficult due to the sheer number of independent updates provided at the same time, and it is quite difficult to operate the entire process. But this can be simplified with deployment automation that DevOps engineers develop.

Microservices & Monoliths: What’s the difference?

Features	Monoliths	Microservices
Constancy	one failure – entire system is down	one failure – one item is down
Scalability	vertical and slow	horizontal/vertical and fast
Speed	slow deployment, non-integrable	fast deployment, seamlessly integrable
Required skills	Java, PHP, Ruby, Python/Django, etc.	DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS skills

What architecture to choose, monolithic or microservice, depends on the goals of a particular IT organization, and monolithic style is for you if you intend to create a simple software, not trying to expand the team, and if you’re at the early stage of a cycle and designing a Minimum Viable Product to quickly collect feedback from your customers. Conversely, you should use microservices if you want to create large-scale software, looking to expand your team, or even create a couple of teams. If you plan to use different languages and have sufficient time to plan the project carefully, microservice-type architecture is better for you.

5-turn road from Monoliths to Microservices

What application-level changes you should do before you move from monolithic architecture to microservice one:

Optimize building. It’s important to streamline your building stage and get rid of dependencies, bottlenecks, and so on.
Split dependencies. Once the loop is ordered, you must remove the monolith dependencies between modules.
Migrate to the local environment. With Docker containers, you localize each module and this will accelerate your software deployment.
Develop synchronously. The different branches in the main repository should serve to run multiple tasks at once.
Accept Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practice. With IaC, you dramatically speed up your development processes, as the main goal of IaC is to eliminate toil and ditch bottlenecks.

Microservices: find out all!

So, here is the top-notch microservice-dedicated articles list from Profisea experts:

Let’s start with ABC – What are Microservices?: an easy guide for you. Plus, very helpful microservice vocabulary Part 1 and Part 2 to learn the terms.
If you are still deciding which architecture type is better for your business, Monolithic or Microservice, here is the comparison article highlighting both architectures’ pros and cons.
If your choice is adopting microservices and you decide to perform migration from monolith to microservices, we recommend you to read the Microservice Deployment Know-How article carefully.
And, last but not the least, when dealing with microservice-type architecture, Security is a big matter. Here is a simple but quite helpful article on handling security in the Microservice Ecosystem.

Final thoughts: Microservice architecture is our choice, what about you?

If you choose to use microservices and decide to migrate from the monolith, we recommend that you think carefully about what you are doing and why. Try not to focus on the microservice creation activity, but on the desired outcome. What do you think the result will be? If the answer to this question is clear and you want to implement microservices, go ahead, but reach out to DevOps professionals to execute DevOps-as-a-Service or at least get advice on this very time and energy-consuming issue.

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Ready to get rid of your Monolith?

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What is NOC And Why Profisea’s NOC is the Best in Class

19.08.2021

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Service disruptions are an unfortunate reality IT enterprises must deal with whether they desire to or not. In the era of cloud computing, suppliers and customers rely on redundant systems, backups, and a range of disaster mitigation systems to reduce the risk of outrage. However, the biggest disruptions to cloud computing are due to the pioneers of cloud infrastructure technologies. For instance, a massive internet disruption in July 2021, briefly took out a wide range of major corporate websites — from FedEx to McDonald’s. The outages coincided with reports of system disruptions from Akamai (AKAM) and Oracle (ORCL) — two key providers of internet infrastructure services. Later that afternoon, Akamai explained the outage was caused by a “software configuration update triggered a bug in the DNS system.”

No one is immune to all sorts of contingencies ranging from ISP outrages to human error, on the other hand, handling IT disruptions ASAP is our clear duty since outage/downtime losses are huge. According to Gartner, the average cost of IT downtime is $5,600 per minute. And there are much more appealing casualties like productivity reduction and business reputation loss. According to Infrascale, 37% of SMBs in the survey group said they have lost customers and 17% have lost revenue due to downtime.

Here is when NOC (network operations center) saves the day providing a centralized location where IT teams can continuously monitor the performance and health of an entire infrastructure serving as the first line of defense against system disruptions and failures.

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What is NOC?

Let’s think about the Internet as a good case of one of the items NOC monitors. If there is a bottleneck on the Internet, or a major link has gone down somewhere, NOC knows about it and works on resolving the issue. How does this sound to you? Pretty cool! Network Operations Center (NOC) is a centralized facility where IT professionals monitor, manage, and respond to alerts when critical system elements fail.

NOC’s perfect formula is:

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NOC uses software tools to monitor technology assets via protocols like Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) to get in touch with system devices, determine their status and get back with this data to a centralized control panel where the NOC team takes action. NOCs are important components in a Technology Service Provider or Large Enterprise approach towards IT management. With NOC, IT organizations resolve issues proactively but not reactively. NOC engineers and technicians are in charge of monitoring the health, safety, and capacity of infrastructure in a customer’s environment. They make decisions and adjustments to ensure excellent organizational performance.

With that, a pretty logical question arises — in-house NOC or NOC-as-a-service? NOC-as-a-Service is not a one-size-fits-all, but a quite practical option, and in the case of a company sourcing the NOC-as-a-Service compared to deploying and managing a NOC in-house can get rather powerful benefits:

Reduced CAPEX. Addressing your network issues to a mature service company that has already made the CAPEX investments to inaugurate NOC is more cost-efficient than a company hiring and deploying a professional NOC in-house team and handling all the costs.
Reduced OPEX. Professional NOC service providers can share OPEX-related fixed costs and therefore enable service at a lower cost compared to a customer operating an in-house NOC.
Improved team productivity. With NOC-as-a-service, in-house engineers can focus on more creative tasks, while boosting positive customer experience notably.

Why Profisea’s NOC?

Israeli DevOps company Profisea provides NOC or CIOC (Cloud Infrastructure Operation Center), to be exact, as one of our various services. Profisea’s Israeli-Ukrainian professional team supervise, monitor, and maintain the entire cloud infrastructure and related services to ensure the high availability of critical business services. Our AWS certified engineers keep a close eye on the cloud infrastructure to ensure the system uptime is not compromised due to malware, system errors, or other issues.

We are available 24/7. Our duty roster is scheduled and our partners have access to it. There is a virtual US phone number – a “hot number” that can be used for automatic call back to the engineer.
We fully automated incident monitoring and made a template out of it. It takes us two days to deploy this system. It means we provide a turn-key NOC: ready-made team, ready-made monitoring, and we have it fully automated.
We integrate with many services. We monitor AWS infrastructures and systems. Plus, we monitor the application itself. It means we monitor not only our partner’s infrastructure but also all the dependencies that it has, even the mail server.
We are a Kubernetes-ready monitoring NOC team. We are Kubernetes experienced, which is a rare situation even with DevOps teams.
We have DevOps engineers on duty together with the NOC team. We schedule DevOps engineers’ shifts and in case of an incident, he/she should join the NOC team and deal with it.
We react before an incident happens. Our NOC team’s main goal is to prevent problems. We receive an incident, and it does not mean that something has fallen – it means that something begins to be suspicious.

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Final thoughts: which NOC player is yours?

With NOCs, organizations gain complete system visibility, so they can detect anomalies and either take action to prevent problems or quickly resolve problems as they arise. NOC controls infrastructure and equipment from wiring to servers, including IoT devices and smartphones. NOC, when implemented correctly, manages integrationing with online customer tools and all involved services. Profisea provides NOC 24/7 services of the most reliable monitoring, maintaining, and administering for your Cloud infrastructure. So, if you’re game, what player would be on your team?

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Profisea offers its own free cloud visualization web app that not only auto-generates diagrams but enables you to improve the end-to-end production cycle.

Cloud visualization. Have your cloud under the watchful eye!

24.07.2021

Cloud hosting is the trend every organization is willing to adopt. Progressive businesses give up building in-house computing infrastructures for cloud hosting services and solutions administered by giant world’s cloud providers like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud. According to a PwC report, 75% of IT decision-makers are considering turning to the cloud’s adjustable and scalable services. Taking advantage of IaaS also gives you the flexibility to innovate faster, duplicate production environments, scale up or down ad-lib and take advantage of new technologies as they are released. However, with great flexibility also comes a new set of challenges like the complexity of managing and security. So, understanding the infrastructure’s current state, automated planning of the future steps, lightning-fast troubleshooting, easily triggered scaling-up/down, and supervised security can be carried out with the help of cloud visualization. State DevOps Report indicates that high-performing IT organizations experiencing 60X fewer failures and deploying 30X more frequently identify visualization as an effective way to build quality into the system.

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“Operational visibility with real-time insight enables us to deeply understand our operational systems, make product and service improvements, and find and fix problems quickly so that we can continue to innovate rapidly and delight our customers at every interaction. We are building a new set of tools and systems for operational visibility at Netflix with powerful insight capabilities,” says Justin Becker, Director of Engineering at Netflix, that utilizes visualization tools like clockwork and publicly reveals insights into their operations because it attracts engineering and operations talent.

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Source: netflixtechblog.com

However, for cloud visualization to work it should be implemented properly with the right data visualization tool. And yes, there are lots of them but not all of them are right for you. So, buckle up and fly high to reach out to the clouds to talk about the importance of cloud visualization, cloud visualization tools, and how to choose one.

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Visualize your infrastructure, and business growth shall be given to you!

Cloud visualization is a process of creating a visual representation of all your virtual assets, nodes, networks, artifacts, and others. The best thing about this trend is that such a transformation of cloud resources will not be complicated and time-consuming, considering the ability of services cloud providers present (by the latest count, the list of services that AWS offers above 300 services across multiple categories). Nowadays, you have specific digital instruments that help DevOps, security engineers, and analysts generate cloud environment diagrams automatically that previously required hours of work. Plus, you don’t have to be a cloud expert to become a visualization professional and start optimizing your cloud architecture today.

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Top 5 best cloud infrastructure visualization benefits

So, what perks do you get from turning to a cloud visualization approach? With could visualization you:

1. Take total control over cloud resources. Сloud infrastructure visualization lets you gain comprehensive knowledge about all virtual resources you have in place. You get a clear view of any misconfigurations, defects in your systems, services/data storage, and other configuration details. Automatically generated real-time maps and diagrams enable higher visibility of rapidly changing cloud environments. Plain and brightly presented infrastructure diagrams and graphs seamlessly communicate the whole picture of your resources network, what’s happening with load balancing and redundancy, which access levels each user has, etc.

2. Develop a more effective cloud cost optimization strategy. Cloud visualization instruments are essential for saving your budget. They streamline your operations and provide all resources observability 24/7, letting you create a bulletproof cloud cost optimization strategy. You can generate reports for and visualize any amount of any-size data in environments, which provides extensive operational visibility with timely insights about the most complex infrastructures.

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Design

Create 2D and 3D models, create virtual prototypes

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Simulate

Run large-scale simulations and parameter sweeps

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Visualize

View simulation results using interactive tools

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Collaborate

Securely transmit and share design data and simulation results

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Cloud visualization empowers you to understand each element of your systems, processes, and solutions needed to avoid/fix issues quickly. Visualization tools significantly lower your expenses on infrastructure maintenance as they are predictable and easily manageable. Consequently, this paves the way for remarkably efficient cost reduction as you pay as you go.

3. Get DevOps operations agile and streamline. Cloud visualization reduces repetitive, manual work for the DevOps department, enabling faster operations with limitless agility. Your engineers will have more time to focus on high-priority, creative tasks. Visualization of DevOps processes is essential for amplifying feedback loops. Additionally, working with visuals improves communication significantly and boosts teams’ workflows efficiency. With cloud resource visualization tools, any assigned users can access and analyze a real-time visual model of your infrastructure via data-driven interactive maps. You’ll save a substantial amount of expenses by automating unscalable, time-consuming tasks and get extensive flexibility for your enterprise cloud workload.

4. Get improved cloud cybersecurity. Aside from praising public clouds as tools of the future, we can’t avoid the fact that cybersecurity has become a big issue recently. You should always be aware of how data traffic moves through your virtual network and what circulation paths are allowed for it, how your ingress and egress ports and IP addresses work, etc. With cloud visualization solutions in hand, your teams will be able to troubleshoot the infrastructure problems and identify required security configurations faster.

5. Drive system compliance 24/7. By utilizing cloud resource visualization applications, you can continuously track potential compliance violations in a cloud environment and share network compliance details in the form of precise architecture diagrams or graphs. You can also provide these diagrams to auditors to confirm that your system complies with all the industry standards, which is vital when you store sensitive financial/personal data in the cloud.

Yes, I need one or How to choose the BEST cloud visualization tool

Considering the company needs, requirements and goals, you can utilize such cloud visualization tools:

Open-source apps, when the service code is publicly available;
Free visualization products, when some limited proprietary cloud visualization tool versions are available
Proprietary visualization tools, when full paid versions with a wide range of sophisticated functions is available in the cloud or provider’s server architecture.

When deciding on what visualization tool suits your business most, consider these main factors:

Usability. A user-friendly interface is an equally important factor of visualization solution together with flexibility and analytical functionality.
Integration ability. When data lack issues take place, a good visualization tool easily connects to external sources and extracts critical information from them.
Scalability. Consider the tool’s scalability level. Hard-to-scale solutions cannot be in favor, for obvious reasons.
Team skill level. Do not forget to take into consideration teams’ skills when choosing a cloud visualization tool. Many managers skip this step and make a tactical mistake, as with complex tools in hand, they waste lots of the resources to train teams.

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How to choose the right Data Visualization Software

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And the sweetest: What are the latest trends in cloud visualization functionality? Alongside data visualization in the form of graphs, diagrams, charts, and infrastructure correlations, role-based access management, email reporting, visual analytics, and in-place filtering functionality, contemporary cloud visualization tools present new competitive features. So, here are the latest trends in data visualization:

Artificial Intelligence. AI & Machine Learning are integrated into modern cloud visualization solutions to catch and cover data patterns faster.
Actual management. What if you could rightsize, delete, spot/unspot instances right away inside the infrastructure schemes? It would be great! In all fairness, not so many data visualization tools can boast that feature.
Storytelling. Visual analytics is not enough right now. Demanding customers want visualization tools to enlist narrative while creating data reports, and modern visualization tools incorporate this feature as well. Gartner experts predict that by 2025, we will get most of our information from data-driven narrative storytelling, and 75% of these stories will be generated by automated systems.

Wrapping things up: Cloud visualization? Yes, please!

With the right cloud visualization tools, you easily validate the implemented CI/CD changes within minutes and you get rid of unconnected/unused machines and instances. What’s more, you schedule hibernation, identify areas for improvements and detect misconfigurations/compliance violations. DevOps engineers instantaneously check all development strategies to see if everything is working as expected and gain instant security alerts. But, most importantly, you optimize your infrastructure at most, significantly reducing cloud spendings.

If you have questions about how to choose the cloud visualization tool suitable for your particular company needs, you can always turn to us. ProfiSea Labs professionals have developed a new generation, cloud visualization platform that you can try for free and see how you can improve your end-to-end production cycle on AWS. Plus, we can consult you on any cloud/DevOps-related issue you have. Don’t wait up, contact us, and get a real-time visual of your cloud!

Seeking help from a professional DevOps company in Israel?

Profisea offers its own free cloud visualization web app that not only auto-generates diagrams but enables you to improve the end-to-end production cycle.

Microservices Architecture: Deployment Know-How

19.02.2021

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For the past several months, we’ve been sorting out everything microservices-related from teams organization, user interface, and data storing to distributed and security concepts, API gateways, registries, and more. You already know how to apply the Microservice architecture to build a shipment application as a set of services. Now it’s time to wrap up and cross the finish line by digging into the patterns of the deployment process.

As we’ve mentioned, microservices are the stand-alone, independently developed and scalable artifacts. To provide the proper level of their performance and availability, you have to deploy them as a series of multiple instances. Meaning, isolating services from one another and choosing the appropriate deployment pattern.

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5 Things to Remember Before Deploying

You’d want to simplify your app’s deployment process while maintaining its cost-effectiveness;
In most cases, your team is going to write the services in different languages and frameworks;
Your services will have numerous versions; still, the deployment of each instance should be reliable, quick, easy;
You’d want to be able to scale or limit the hardware resources used by services;
You’re going to track each instance’s behavior, so the monitoring process should also be efficient.

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How to Package Microservices?

Overall, you have 2 ways of running your sets of instances – on physical servers or virtual machines, on-premise or in the cloud.

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Each approach in detail:

Physical servers have their own memory capacity, processing algorithms, network, and data storage.
Virtual machines (VM) lend you the same physical server with established physical capacity, but, in turn, give you virtual CPU, memory, and network, therefore, empowering you to set limits for the resources consumed by your services.

Also, there is one more trick when you want to simplify and automate the deployment process. It’s to present each service as a container image and run it using special digital tools for container management.

4 Microservices Deployment Patterns

When you’ve decided whether to use hardware or cloud servers, you can now follow one of these patterns. To choose, consider the software and hardware capacities you need, the forecasted load on your app, and the 5 things to remember we’ve listed above.

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1st – Single Microservice Instance per One Host or VM

As it says, yes, deploy each particular instance on its own host or VM. This pattern allows isolating microservice instances from one another, and reduce the resources consumption by each instance to the threshold of a single host or VM.

In the case of virtual infrastructure, you’d have to package the whole service as a VM image and deploy the instances as separate machines. As an example, Netflix experts package their services as Amazon Machine Images, using EC2 for deploying the instances.

Also, this approach excludes the conflict of resources and dependency versions. The instances’ management, monitoring, and redeployment are easy and straightforward.

2nd – Multiple Instances per One Host/VM

If needed, you can run a few instances of several separate services on a single host or VM. The tools like Tomcat, Jetty, or web apps/OSGi bundles can help with this pattern. Potentially, it’s a more beneficial solution compared to 1st one thanks to the highly efficient resource utilization.

However, you shouldn’t forget about ensuring that your services and dependency versions do not get into a conflict at the end of the day. Also, it’ll be challenging to coordinate and limit the system resources assigned to the instances.

3rd – One Instance per One Container (The Art of Orchestration)

When your app’s architecture gets too complicated, you risk getting lost in a packaging process with all its dependencies and system’s capacity parameters. Here, as we’ve said earlier, the containerization method comes handy. The containers capture and save all technology specifics that you used during each service development. As a result, you get an image that contains all the right dependencies while isolating the instances. It boosts the consistency level, so you can now launch and stop your services in precisely the same way.

When you deploy instances as containers, it’s easier to scale up and down the service itself. You just need to manage the number of container instances. With this pattern, you also have full control over the limits of CPU and memory usage. It’s a way faster solution for running the microservices through all development stages to testing and production.

However, you’d face the need to orchestrate all your containers that run across multiple VMs. This means handling such challenges as:

finding out how to start the right container at the right time;
handling storage process and system resources usage;
establishing the way they can communicate with each other;
dealing with failed containers or hardware, and so on.

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Fortunately, the modern advancement of technology presents you with the digital orchestrators that allow automating all these tasks and reduce time and efforts usually spent on manual operational tasks. The most popular container management and orchestration system is Docker, though there are other nice alternatives from Amazon, IBM, Kubernetes, Azure, and Google.

Continuous Delivery (Your Best Friend)

It’s not the deployment pattern itself, but it’s what you should aim for to achieve the highest level of robustness for your product development cycle from deployment into production. Continuous Delivery is a DevOps practice that streamlines code building, testing, version control, and delivering with automated tools. These tools package the ready code into a container, then ping the orchestrator to deploy all the pieces of your architecture. Repeated testing of your software, processes, and application ecosystem before deployment to production lets you discover most errors early on and reduce their impact.

If you follow the 3rd pattern and every element of your microservices architecture presented as a container, Continuous Delivery (CD) allows you to automate the entire deployment process. The most frequently recommended CD tools would be Jenkins, Buddy, Jira, and Netflix’s Asgard or Aminator. Also, AWS, Azure, and IBM offer high-quality pipeline management instruments.

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4th – Serverless Deployment Environments

One of the most commonly used patterns these days is to choose a serverless, automated deployment platform provided by a public cloud vendor. Most known providers of such environments are AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, and Google Cloud Functions. Their utilities come with all needed instruments that create a service abstraction via a set of highly available instances.

Such an infrastructure relieves you of the need to personally operate and manage the pre-allocated resources (physical or virtual servers, hosts, containers). Everything is going to be done for you on the pay as you go basis – you pay only for the vendor’s resources you actually used while deploying a service.

To deploy microservices via serverless environments:

package the service’s code (ZIP file or else);
upload it to the chosen platform’s infrastructure;
state the desired performance characteristics;
the platform receives the code and processes it only when triggered to do so;
then, the FaaS cloud computing service automatically runs and scales your code to handle the load.

Generally, some of your microservices will be running on several environments, which means different runtime configuration for the same particular service. Therefore, when you consider developing a microservices-based application, remember to take into account the possible need to externalize each service code into a centralized digital configuration store (Consul, Decider, etc.) that would simplify its future deployment.

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Summing Up

As you see, deploying microservices can be tricky. However, instruments like containers, orchestrators, and continuous delivery pipelines greatly help to overcome the complexity of any architecture. They automate and streamline not just development, QA, and version control, but also the deployment environment.

Being DevOps professionals, we’re fully proficient with these tools and always ready to share our expertise to benefit your project. Reach out, let’s see how we can help your business goals.

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How to Leverage DevOps for IT Cost Optimization

26.01.2021

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Stating the obvious here, but 2020 was a hard year for everyone at best. Continuity and resiliency of businesses worldwide have suffered because of the rapid unanticipated changes and economic collapse. Numerous companies faced massive layoffs, revenue drop, and the need to cut costs while maintaining their operations up and running.

However, some found the most efficient way to fight back the COVID-19 disruption. They reduced their IT costs through robust DevOps, cloud optimization, and automation of manual tasks. Virtualization and DevOps practices became life-savers for enterprises in various industries, allowing them to cut operating expenses for development, testing, deployment, and maintenance.

So, today Profisea shares useful tips to help you grow your business with DevOps while actually saving money and effort.

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Why should you turn to DevOps to reduce costs and streamline operations?

There are top five reasons:

Business processes automation increases enterprise-wide operational efficiency and resiliency.
DevOps cycle itself essentially decreases costs by reducing engineers’ manual work and shortens time to market. It enables your teams to build, test, and deploy faster and with fewer errors.
Fine-tuned CI/CD pipelines reduce redundancy for your teams and make your business more agile and flexible.
Automated cloud infrastructures allow achieving sustainable cost reduction by optimizing the usage of cloud resources. With a cloud-native architecture, you can scale up and down cloud consumption on-demand.
You can leverage DevOps as a Service (Managed DevOps) outsourcing model. It helps automate delivery processes, create cloud environments, improve team collaboration and productivity while paying far less than when doing it all in-house.

Gartner forecasts that global spending on IT areas to reach $3.8 trillion in 2021, an increase of four percent from 2020. Thus, the demand for maintaining the appropriate budget for all things related to software development will also be higher than ever. The world keeps transitioning into remote and hybrid work mode as the new normal — everything will depend on the quality and robustness of enterprise digital transformation initiatives.

Future software engineering will focus on even more agile release cycles, hyperautomation, remote collaboration tools, and continuous improvements across all development processes. DevOps and cloud computing will play key parts in building standardized and consistent build-test-deploy environments, where the teams are enabled to react to any changes promptly and efficiently.

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How DevOps Optimizes IT Costs

Here is a quick guide on leveraging DevOps best practices to gain full control over your IT expenditures.

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#1 Automate everything you can — CI/CD, business processes, and infrastructure

Yes, to save costs, you first need to invest some money in automation that has proven its effectiveness in reducing costs long ago. So, you’ll need to automate CI/CD pipelines, manually controlled operations, databases, servers, and other ecosystem elements, and implement the Infrastructure as Code (IaaC) approach. It’ll relieve your engineers from the need to provision IT infrastructure and manage all its components manually every time they build, test, or deploy software.

Instead, CI/CD processes and the whole infrastructure will be transformed into a customizable and scalable automated framework. Such a framework consists of the pre-set templates, protocols, and controls that allow your developers to configure existing services or launch new ones within minutes. IaaC model also lets you set the same configuration to one node or to thousands of them, avoiding vast amounts of repetitive work.

Subsequently, the IaaC approach also enables business processes automation (BPA) by eliminating mundane, routine, but still important tasks. They won’t be skipped, but they will be automated and won’t be demotivating your developers ever again, thanks to the DevOps practices. With BPA, you’ll receive a highly efficient workflow with more time for QA and testing, which will boost your team’s productivity and lower expenses for rework.

#2 Don’t neglect third-party services and software

You can easily reduce company operating overhead expenses by using third-party SaaS providers like AWS or Azure clouds, Elastic managed services, and others. For instance, building a managed database from scratch is also time-consuming and expensive. Luckily, an expert DevOps team can provide you with the most cost-efficient, ready for use service (e.g., Amazon RDS).

Using such an approach, you’ll pay only for the resources you actually use during an outlined period of time. Third-party managed service providers offer various packages with computing and storage capabilities based on your business goals. As the pandemic pushes companies to stop growing their workforce and avoid substantial investments, leveraging third-party services is a win-win strategy.

#3 Optimize tools and resources

In most cases, your budget is blown up by poor management of a wide range of DevOps applications and resources your team uses daily. Hence, a good idea is to take an inventory to analyze all your instruments and re-develop legacy infrastructure if needed to cut its costs. Then, create an optimization roadmap to choose the suitable capabilities, instances, management tiers, and optimal payment options for each tool. Managing your cloud usage is essential to avoid sprawl.

The roadmap can include such actions as:

Analyzing the consumption of subscription-based services and their relevance;
Using discounts from a service provider;
Setting automatic hibernation/system shutdown for machines you don’t need running 24/7;
Choosing the right type of instance for cloud resources and deleting underused instances;
Moving the occasionally used storage to cheaper tiers;
Implementing alerts for when spend thresholds exceed the pre-established limit;
Checking up if hosting in a different region/zone can benefit your project.

Finally, train your staff to appropriately manage all the resources and implement policies that enforce limitations and usage requirements. It’ll help you control IT spending and gain maximum efficiency from your toolchain while significantly optimizing costs.

#4 Containerize your applications

Container-based development eases application hosting and streamlines collaboration between all team members. Containers accelerate building, testing, and deployment environments, making user experience always consistent. When your software is containerized, it also simplifies the process of updating it without disrupting service.

This approach lowers expenses needed for keeping your resources up and running, and inside containers, you can operate applications developed in any language. This, in turn, allows your teams to switch between different programming environments fast and without losing productivity.

#5 DevSecOps — cover your security gaps

In our times, when businesses move to all things remote, your company’s cybersecurity is a top priority. Enforcing robust security policies and protocols for both employees and users is critical. If those policies aren’t followed, it can cost you a lot. DevSecOps approach is a rising star in the IT field that allows you to detect any exposable flaws in your enterprise data safety measures. And do everything necessary to remove vulnerabilities before any breach happens.

#6 Try out DevOps as a Service

This outsourcing delivery model provides turn-key consulting and engineering services from audit and strategy planning to project infrastructure assessment and development actions. DevOps managed service providers can help you grow or shut down SDLC areas according to your operational needs. Simultaneously, usage of on-demand, budget-friendly DevOps services can free your in-house full-time employees to focus on delivering better value to more strategic tasks.

External DevOps experts will handle all tasks related to requirements clarification, identifying risks and opportunities, creating architecture, implementing automation and IaaC, and more. Instead of doing it yourself, you’ll get a comprehensive roadmap designed by professionals or even the core infrastructure with configured pipelines fully ready for support management and scaling.

Four actions to take to start optimizing your IT costs with DevOps

Audit your processes, business goals, and resources to get a clear picture of what you’re using and what your operating expenses are. Then, initiate business impact analysis to discover the bottlenecks and map out the risk scenarios, seasonal lows and highs.
Create a plan for your optimization journey and risk mitigation — define the problematic areas and the ways to improve them with the DevOps practices.
Implement the changes and adapt your architecture. Assess your new capabilities and monitor your new stream of IT costs to see if the planning was successful and if there are any gaps you overlooked.
Continue improving your optimization cycle — look for new services and tools that will help you reduce expenses even more while maintaining your infrastructure’s highest productivity.

Starting 2021 with a Bang!

DevOps future looks brighter than ever, considering an increasingly fragmented, hybrid work culture that awaits us in the coming decade. The benefits of using DevOps for business growth are almost limitless. Alongside reducing time, money, and effort required for software development processes, agile DevOps practices eliminate bottlenecks in various fields. From automated infrastructure provisioning and cloud migrations to legacy systems updates and security issues.

Profisea’s DevOps team in Israel can help you navigate through the automation journey. Our engineers will provide the best end-to-end cloud cost optimization solutions and fine-tune your infrastructure to run on-demand while meeting all your project’s goals. Consequently, Profisea’s dedicated services will free your time and budget for other business-focused purposes.

With Profisea’s DevOps as a Service model and internal tool for cloud resource visualization, you’ll pay only for what you use at a particular time. Outsourcing DevOps services from a trusted provider will cost you far less than setting it all in-house or manually. We’ll implement DevOps practices and tools to create highly advanced, extensively scalable environments for you.

If you have some exciting insights to share with us or would like to discuss the described trends, reach out to us! Our DevOps experts are always ready to provide free consultations.

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Top 8 DevOps Trends for 2021

15.12.2020

To say the least, 2020 was full of challenges and disruptions for almost any business industry. However, many companies were saved behind such shields as AI, ML, DevOps, and cloud technologies. Automation of routine office work, on-premise processes, and other manual tasks became a must-have during the COVID-19 times.

Thus, Profisea decided to explore major cloud computing trends to help you better prepare for your business automation journey in 2021.

The bright future of DevOps engineering

As one of the major players in the adoption of automation culture, DevOps came to the rescue when we needed it most. Adjusting to ‘the new normal’ way of work, enterprises quickly adopted rapid automation of everything related to CI/CD pipelines, testing, infrastructure provisioning, operations, production, analytics, advanced cloud computing, and monitoring. IDC study showed that the worldwide DevOps tools market keeps demonstrating growth every year. It was estimated at $5.2 billion in 2018, and the forecast says it will reach $15 billion by 2023. Going back in time, several years ago DevOps was hardly considered a serious game-changer. Now, the organization-wide adoption of DevOps increased from ten percent in 2017 to seventeen percent in 2018.[/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.7.4″ text_font=”Open Sans||||||||” link_font=”||||||||” max_width=”1200px” custom_margin=”||” animation_direction=”right” global_colors_info=”{}”]

The pandemic positively impacted the state of DevOps in 2020

The public and private cloud companies have flooded the global market this year. The investors have poured nearly $9.5 billion in private cloud companies in Israel and Europe alone. This tendency indicates the growth of funding close to 30 percent compared with previous years.

The Accelerated Strategies Group and CloudBees research also revealed some interesting statistics. The study discovered that due to the lockdown limitations the need for business automation investments increased by 61.6 percent, and 52 percent of companies sped up their acceleration to the cloud, focusing on DevOps initiatives.

DevOps Trends to Follow in 2021

It’s safe to assume that the future of work will heavily depend on robust artificial intelligence and DevOps engineering. More and more organizations will benefit from it by following a holistic approach and seeking agility, speed, flexibility. To achieve these goals and deliver high-quality products to clients faster, they will need a dynamic DevOps strategy and an appropriate set of tools.

How to choose the right path? Here are some tips.

#1 Artificial intelligence and machine learning will empower DevOps

Another IDC report, titled “Worldwide Artificial Intelligence Spending Guide,” revealed that 75 percent of enterprise applications will be using various forms of artificial intelligence in 2021. AI and ML will optimize the test cases and revolutionize and foster DevOps practices’ future growth.

Utilizing AI’s ability to handle the massive data sets, enterprises will enhance their DevOps framework’s efficiency and performance index. Any issues or problems you might be having during infrastructures’ automation will be solved much faster and with less effort. What’s more, AI and ML accelerate deployment without breaking up a continuous delivery cycle.

#2 Cloud-native environment — the road to advancements and innovations

The reliable DevOps market trends for 2021 include cloud-native development. It means having a container-based ecosystem for all your architecture and infrastructure elements. Cloud computing helps to create the dynamic development cycle with faster deployments, improved scalability and visibility across all platforms.

Moreover, this technology shortens time to market, which grants a competitive advantage and ensures business resilience. Cloud-native DevOps is projected to reach $530 billion in spendings. Eighty percent of enterprise applications will shift toward hyper-agile architectures and cloud infrastructures by 2025.

#3 The rise of container registry tools

Container instruments like Kubernetes have been around for a while now, so it’s no surprise that the DevOps field in 2021 will see the rise of container registry services. This technology helps you store and manage the artifacts and cover all dependencies for a smooth SDLC. Using containers, one can faster deliver updates, switch between programming frameworks, and even improve collaboration between all parties involved in the DevOps processes.

#4 DevSecOps: security and observability are a matter of the utmost priority

In the new world of remote operations, cloud cybersecurity is essential to consider. DevSecOps approach combines best practices of keeping a focus on security and observability in all areas of software development, delivery, and operations. Which, in turn, mitigates risks and minimizes the vulnerabilities in the delivered applications.

DevSecOps bridges a security awareness gap between IT and business sides. It allows identifying cyber threats at the early stages of development and cutting the costs for fixing the issues. The DevSecOps market is forecasted to reach $5.9 billion by 2023.

#5 Distributed cloud — public cloud for location independence

According to Gartner, distributed cloud (DC) is the future of cloud. While this technology distributes cloud services between different physical locations, the public cloud provider will still be responsible for their operation, governance, maintenance, and evolution. You can benefit from DC by avoiding latency issues and data protection regulations, at the same time reducing expenses on complicated and location-dependent private cloud solutions.

The DC types:

On-premises public cloud;
Global network edge cloud;
IoT edge cloud;
5G mobile edge cloud.

#6 The ascension of DevTestOps to improve SDLC

Even while being one of the newest DevOps trends for 2021, this QA automation approach most likely will flourish across early and end-to-end testing. Continuous testing practices are closely entwined with the DevOps workflow, aiming to improve the product’s quality and eliminate business risks. As a synergy of development, testing, and operations, DevTestOps covers the vast scope of QA activities, cybersecurity threats, and market impact. By adopting DevTestOps, you can spend more time on innovations rather than bug fixing.

#7 Increased demand for microservices

Microservices and DevOps have become synonymous long ago. If you need the most scalable, distributed, and flexible architecture for your platform, microservices are the solution. They provide such a significant advantage as the possibility to build and deploy new components rapidly. And the entire application won’t fall apart when one team changes some part of it. With device- and platform-agnostic microservices, you can adjust to the constantly evolving market and emerging customers’ needs.

#8 Rise of the DevOps assembly lines

The main idea behind this trend is automating and connecting numerous activities performed by several teams involved in a production cycle. An assembly line glues together various Dev, Sec, Test, and Ops tasks into streamlined and optimized, event-driven workflows. Simply put, a DevOps assembly line is a “pipeline of pipelines.” It orchestrates automation and consistent delivery with higher interoperability, and much more.

To recap

As terrible as it was, 2020 has accelerated the rapid growth of the DevOps and cloud computing industry. Various trends have emerged in record time, and we’ve reviewed just a handful of them. The only thing left to say is that 2021 will be revolutionary in terms of work and business operations. And the DevOps movement will keep growing exponentially to become mainstream in the era of all things remote.

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Handling Security in Microservices Ecosystem

03.12.2020

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When it comes to microservices applications, appropriately dealing with security measures is highly important. As microservices-based software is a composition of decentralized and loosely-coupled services, you risk facing tangible security threats. Especially when your app is deployed on a cloud platform. That’s why today we’re discussing some extra precautions you have to consider while creating a microservices ecosystem.

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Security in Microservices: 3 Main Things to Remember

Following our course on Microservices basics, you already know the specifics of microservice architecture, particularly the need to use API gateways as a single entry point for client requests. Its purpose is to provide a secure communication passage between numerous app’s services and a client-side by authenticating requests and forwarding them to appropriate services that can, in turn, invoke other required services.

The problem to solve from the security concept’s side is how to verify the identity of a client and pass it to the service that would handle a particular request?

1. Authentication and Authorization

These are the two terms we use for the components of the system that enforce the control over access rights to services and apply the security policies.

The authentication technology determines whether a client is who or what it states itself to be. If the client’s credentials successfully match the credentials in an app’s database of authorized users or a data authentication server, the identification process is passed. Then, the authentication component provides a client or a service with access control for other services or permission to make calls to them. The most common example of authentication technology is the login and password form.

So, to communicate with each other and external clients securely, each of your app’s services has to have a unique identity to be authenticated and authorized as a single entity. It’s not an easy task to accomplish – your system might have hundreds of microservices of various sizes and levels of digitalization.

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Authorization is the process of determining who to grant the privileges of use and permission to do something inside the system. Basically, it’s who is allowed to do what. Single sign-on technology ensures that once logged in, the user won’t have to log in again and again to access the needed service.

It’s the next step that follows the authentication procedure. Your app’s services are going to need a confirmed verification that a client or another service is authorized to perform a particular action. Authorization solves the problem of assigning access rights to resources of the distributed system to an appropriate user. Your microservices won’t have to deal with authentication and authorization forms and users’ credentials storage. For this, you’ll have an identity and access management system.

You’ve probably heard of such famous authentication protocols as OpenID, OAuth/OAuth2, Kerberos, and good old SAML. Also, there are well-known identity and access management systems like Okta, Keycloak, and Shiro. All of these tools are at your disposal.

2. API Security

API gateway allows your microservices to share the functionality with other apps over a defined UI existing between these applications and your own. The inputs and outputs of such UIs can be secured, unexposed, and internal to the apps’ modules. At the same time, they might be exposed outside the app’s ecosystem to receive and transmit data to other external UIs.

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You’ll have to apply more scalable methods to secure your API than the usual centralized session management. Your gateway is usually responsible for dealing with both authentication and authorization procedures at the level of microservices. So, you should build your security model in a way to allow the delegation of tasks to the microservices level.

The previous paragraph leads us to another extra element of security that API gateways bring to the app’s system – token-based authentication. As the API shields the microservices from a client, a client can’t access any service directly or exploit it. Which leads to the question of how a service communicates a client’s identity once it authenticates to the other microservices in a distributed system?

The solution is by using access tokens that allow you to record the clients’ credentials. The access tokens (e.g., JSON Web Token or session cookies) securely store users’ data and easily identify them each time they try to access the microservices system. API gateway forwards the client’s request to the server that assesses whether or not the client has permission to use the requested service.

3. The Concept of Access Tokens

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An access token then exchanges the information about the client between other assigned services to let them determine if a token itself is valid. The microservices pull the client’s data out of token and perform the verification procedure to ensure that the client is authorized to use the service. Each service can use the access token when calling other services.

The most important thing is that the data stored in tokens have to be encrypted to prevent security breaches caused by any third-party applications. For example, JSON format is an open standard that a priori encrypts the access tokens and provides supporting libraries for various programming languages.

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Final Words

Security patterns in microservices-based applications are to be kept in mind since you can’t leave your software product unprotected in any case, much less when your architecture is distributed. While API and authentication and authorization technologies are a must-have, the token-based approach also has some tangible benefits to consider. First of all, it stores and passes the identity of the caller between the microservices securely. What’s more, the services can verify by themselves if the client is authorized to use their functionality.

In recent years, the DevOps approach has greatly improved the security testing practices and integrated them into the development lifecycle. If you struggle with the matter of securing your microservices ecosystem, give us a call or send an email, we’ll try to find the optimal solution for your problem.

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Microservices Vocabulary. Part 2: Service Registry, Circuit Breakers, CORS, API Gateways

03.05.2020

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Everything in the microservices-based app is carefully crafted and invisibly connected, so if one service fails, it can potentially bring the domino effect throughout the whole system. This is dangerous for your application. So, how to protect your product from a failure of network or single service cascading to other microservices?

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The Concept of Distributed Services

In Microservices architecture, the services are distributed, but sometimes they have to work closely with each other to handle specific requests. However, the number of service instances and their location in the network change dynamically. The problem, though, is that to collaborate on request processing, one service has to invoke another one synchronously. This increases the likelihood that the service being called upon to help is essentially unavailable due to various reasons.

At the same time, while waiting for the reply, the calling service consumes the threads – valuable app’s resources. This can result in the system’s resources stretched too far, making the caller inaccessible for other requests. Consequently, when you build an app where microservices have to communicate via a network, you should keep in mind several extra patterns that will help to preserve your system from failing.

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Service Registry

To discover the microservice’s constantly changing network location, the client needs a service registry. It’s called service discovery – the act of finding an immediate location of the service instance. And a service registry contains all locations of all services in the system, allowing the client-side to search the needed service by its logical name.

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These requests can be both:

Synchronous – the caller halts until the reply comes back
Asynchronous – some service invocates the caller with the request for an action that can be performed in parallel while waiting for a response.

One drawback of this approach is that the client has to discover the service instances’ coordinates. Also, both the client and the microservice have to be free of other synchronous calls during their direct interaction, which reduces their availability for other communication requests.

Messaging – is an asynchronous, more complex inter-service communication protocol. The examples of message tools include Apache Kafka and RabbitMQ.

A self-explanatory term since it means that services exchange messages using a certain broker/channel as an interlink. In detail, to interact with each other, services send their messages to the broker (see the picture). All microservices (subdomains) interested in communicating with these calling services subscribe to the broker to receive the messages. Upon receiving the info encoded in the messages, the services update their own state.

This approach results in such benefits as:

Asynchronous messages support the principle of the loosely-coupled structure of microservices.
They improve the availability of services as the broker/channel layer queued up the messages until the receiver is ready to handle them.
Messaging protocol supports various communication patterns: request-reply, request-synchronous response, publish-subscribe, publish-asynchronous response, notifications, and more.

How does it work? To end up in the registry, a microservice does self-registration of its network location when it starts working and deregisters on shutdown. Using the registry as a phone book, the client discovers the service instance location by sending a query. Then it calls the needed microservice, making an appropriate request. You might have heard about such ready-made service registries as Redis, Apache ZooKeeper, Netflix Eureka, or Consul.

Circuit Breakers

As we’ve discussed earlier, Remote Procedure Invocation is one of the two most popular service-to-service communication protocols in Microservices architecture, and it has no inter-service message broker. So, if you use it in your app, to receive the request, a service has to be free of other tasks and available for cooperation. Of course, as evidenced in practice, it’s not always possible. Any microservice can end up being unavailable because of a network failure, the heavy load, or else. The failure of the initial call can trigger failures of the other systems through the entire app, like the domino effect we’ve mentioned above.

How to solve this puzzle? By implementing a circuit breaker – a design pattern that lets your app to perform remote invocation of the microservices through proxies. Their structure is akin to an electrical circuit breaker. When the number of consecutive tries to invoke a service surpasses a pre-set limit, the circuit breaker stops reaching out to that remote service, taking a certain timeout.

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Simply put, the circuit breaker deviates the calls if some services are unavailable. After the timeout ends, the circuit breaker resumes its work allowing the selected services to receive a certain number of calls again. Only when the services successfully respond to those client requests, the circuit breaker gets into its normal operation mode. Then, it slowly reintroduces the usual requests’ traffic. Netflix Hystrix, pybreaker, and JRugged are famous examples of circuit breakers.

The doubt?Your microservices easily handle the failure of the invoked services.

The benefit? Establishing the timeout value is a challenging task where you have to avoid ending up with false positives or excessive latency.

Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)

This one is also for putting the service-to-service calls on hold. CORS greatly helps when you handle the microservices located on different servers. There are technologies, like HTTP, for instance, that have the restrictive same-origin policy. Meaning that to interact with each other, the resources must be hosted on the same server, i. e. have the same origin.

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What is an origin? In short, it’s a combination of protocol, port number, and host. However, you already know that a microservices-based app stores the services in different locations. And when they have to communicate with each other? This is what we call crossing the origin. As browsers restrict scripted cross-origin HTTP requests due to the security reasons, your microservices will need additional HTTP headers (Access-Control-Allow-Origin) to grant the client access to selected resources stored on a different server. These are the essentials of the cross-origin resource sharing pattern.

2. APIs and Contracts. Just business!

Okay, now you probably wonder how exactly each engineering team invokes some external microservices? Well, earlier, we’ve mentioned the API’s role in the communication process. Here we also add another player – the contracts. Just as any business deal, a call, in our case, is sealed with a contract. Such a contract allows the microservices to expose the full set of API’s functions.

For instance, your app’s order processing microservice simultaneously uses two APIs – one for creating new shipment orders, the other one for following the existing orders till they’re successfully delivered. So, how the other system’s services know what is being used and how to invocate it? The microservice issues a certain contract into the system. The other microservices will receive it when needed, read it, and establish a process of remote API’s invocation.

API Gateways

Remember, we’ve discovered that all the elements and components of user interfaces in the microservices ecosystem must be aggregated to form a single app? Still, each component/element must access a particular service. How to achieve it? For instance, you can code the direct client‑to‑microservice connection between the components and your services, but this will raise the need for each request to deal with cross-cutting issues like security.

A way out is to set up an API gateway as a single entry point for all clients. In other words, each client is going to have a unified interface to access all microservices. Different devices request for different data, so rather than providing some universal, all-in-one API, the gateway exposes different, tailored APIs for each client. The gateways are responsible for request routing, protocol translation, and composition.

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Such API gateways have two ways of processing the client requests:

Proxy/route some of the requests to the service pre-set to handle them;
Fan out other calls to a number of services (requests such as authentication, authorization, service discovery via querying the Service Registry).
The popular gateway solutions for microservices architecture are Spring Cloud Gateway, Netflix Zuul, NGINX Plus, Netty, and Finagle.

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Afterword

We keep diving deeper and deeper into the technical terms of the Microservices world. Understandably, it might be complicated or confusing, so don’t hesitate to reach out to us to get the needed answers. Our technical experts can help you with free consultations and investigate your project to help you decide whether the microservices architecture is suitable for your business goals or not.

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