GigaOps Stack
Being data-driven is extremely crucial for any organization looking to enable continuous innovation, to avoid falling behind and to lower TCO. Much like DevOps in the enterprise, the emergence of enterprise DataOps mimics the practices of modern data management at large internet companies over the past 10 years.
DataOps is about automatically managing all your data life cycle in a modern data management approach. It’s about how to provision the resource for your data, scale the database, tune the data for performance, and automate the data management or data team between different platforms or different stores.
The GigaOps Stack reduces the complexity of all aspects required to implement GigaSpaces products via a self-service cluster with end-to-end provisioning, ability to deploy new services, auto-recovery, self-monitoring, and tracing.
Stack Components
The GigaOps Stack is comprised of the following:
- gsctl - a standalone CLI tool that you can use to create, provision, and install GigaSpaces clusters in the cloud, on premise, or in hybrid environments.
- Ops Manager - the GigaSpaces native administration tool, which is web based and runs automatically when GigaSpaces services are deployed. Use Ops Manager for monitoring, alerts, scaling, interactive queries, and deploying and upgrading your applications.
- Monitoring stack - based on InfluxDB, Grafana, and Telegraf for monitoring GigaSpaces cluster activity and metrics using pre-defined dashboards and built-in alerts, plus Zipkin for distributed tracing.
- Kubernetes enterprise-grade orchestration that automates deploying, scaling, and managing applications and services.
The GigaOps Stack utilizes the DataOps approach, which takes DevOps best practices and applies them to managing data as a global asset in your organization. Using the GigaOps Stack provides auto-installation and provisioning of servers, networking, and security using gsctl, along with full orchestration and installing the GigaSpaces platform.
Auto-Provisioning
With the GigaOps Stack, the installation and configuration process is completely automated. This saves time and resources, and prevents errors that might otherwise occur due to manual configuration of the environment.
Elastic Orchestration
The GigaOps Stack manages orchestration, scheduling, service life cycle, and resource prioritization across the environment. The stack makes global decisions about scheduling, and can detect and respond to cluster events. For example, identifying healthy and unhealthy nodes so that it can make decisions about where to place pods.
Canary Deployment
The GigaOps Stack supports canary deployment, so you can apply GigaSpaces upgrades or custom application upgrades to a small subset of users before introducing the change on a widespread scale.
Auto-Scaling
As the load on your system gets larger or smaller, you may want the size of your cluster to adjust accordingly, to reduce spending on cloud services when they aren't necessary, or to maintain performance during peak times. With GigaOps Stack, your cluster can scale up or down automatically to support the current load.
Rolling Upgrades
You can implement GigaSpaces product upgrades or your own applications across your cluster with zero downtime.
Self-Healing
Benefit from high availability and robustness with the GigaOps Stack's ability to self-repair if a cluster node becomes unavailable or starts to fail.