Overview
Explains the ULB Ops center, summarizing its key parameters, requirements, and reference information. It covers the Ops Center as a system-level infrastructure providing deployment, configuration, and management functionality.
The Ops Center is a system-level infrastructure that provides the following functionality:
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A user interface to trigger a deployment of microservices with the flexibility of providing variable helm chart parameters to control the scale and properties of Kubernetes objects (deployment, pod, services, and so on) associated with the deployment.
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A user interface to push application-specific configuration to one or more microservices through Kubernetes configuration maps.
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A user interface to issue application-specific execution commands (such as show and clear commands). These commands:
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Invoke some APIs in application-specific pods
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Display the information returned on the user interface application
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The ULB Ops Center serves as the central point for configuration and deployment of ULB components (ULB operator and agent) within the cluster. ULB Operator and Agent contain Helm charts and Docker files (images), which allows us to conform to industry standards around how to install and manage ULB within Kubernetes. ULB Ops Center provides a stable CLI/API for operators to manage the ULB in a holistic way. ULB OpsCenter uses helm v3 to directly communicate with Kubernetes API server to install, upgrade, query, and remove Kubernetes resources.
The ULB Ops Center allows you to configure the features such as Neighbor Discovery, Resilience and Traffic Convergence, and so on.