Overview

Component overview

The operations management component provides the following features:

• Application Management: Create applications and manage their basic information.

• Resource Management: Create and manage basic Alibaba Cloud services, such as Elastic Compute Service (ECS), ApsaraDB RDS, Object Storage Service (OSS), ApsaraDB for Memcache, and Simple Log Service.

• Classic Application Service: Manage application versions, deployment packages, and resources from an application-centric view that supports visualization and automation.

• Cell-based Application Service: Create and deploy cell-based application services. This service provides comprehensive platform capabilities for cluster management, authentication and authorization, container networking, and persistent volume (PV) storage.

• Real-time Monitoring (RMS 3.0): Collects data from sources such as logs, REST APIs, shell scripts, and Alibaba Cloud service APIs. It provides monitoring capabilities from various perspectives, including resource, application, and business.

Workflow

The complete workflow for operations management is as follows:

1. Create a workspace: In Global Settings, add a workspace.

2. Create an application: In Application Management, create an application.

3. Build and publish application services based on one of the following patterns.

   • Classic pattern:

     1. Add resources: In Resource Management, add resources such as ECS, SLB, a security group, and a VPC.

     2. Create an application service: In Classic Application Service, create an application service.

     3. Develop locally: Use the SOFABoot frame to develop your application locally. For more information, see SOFABoot QuickStart.

     4. Attach resources and services: In Classic Application Service, attach resources and services to the application service. For more information, see QuickStart.

     5. Upload a deployment package and publish the application: In Classic Application Service, upload the deployment package and then publish the application. For more information, see QuickStart.

   • Container pattern:

     1. Add resources: In Cell-based Application Service, create resources such as clusters, vSwitches, and security groups.

     2. Prepare an image: Use a sample image provided by the platform in Cell-based Application Service or an image from a private image repository.

     3. Create an application service: In Cell-based Application Service, create an application service. Configure the runtime image, scaling configuration, access configuration, deployment, and scheduling configuration. In the advanced configuration section, you can specify the Simple Log Service configuration to perform log analysis on the application.

     4. Publish the deployment: In Cell-based Application Service, you can immediately publish the newly created application service, or create a release order to publish multiple application services at the same time.

     5. View logs and monitoring data: In Cell-based Application Service, you can view standard container logs. To view monitoring data, go to the RMS 3.0 console and view application monitoring data in RMS 3.0.