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technical services / use cases

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Use cases satisfied by blugento
● faster time to market
● enterprise grade deployment process
● efficiency by automation
● always up to date stage system (Demo)
● reduce “works on my machine”

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Services provided by blugento

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Service: Version control system
blugento provides a complete version control system (git).
We ensure that every bit of configuration is committed in a version control system =
everything as code, this means following things are documented for auditing to
fulfill corporate compliances:
- What changed
- When it changed
- Who initiated the change / Who authorized the change
- Why the change has happened
Project repository
composer.jso
n
build.yml Dockerfile
Config and
custom files ...
Makefile, ... /rootfs/, ...
terraform.tf
ansible.yml
docker-
compose.yml
.env, override,
...

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Service: Package repository
We strictly use software packages.
blugento provides a package repository.
Every feature comes as a separate package, with
their own separate code-test-release-cycle.
Packages are versioned.
Information about what package at what version and
what configuration is documented in a package state
file (composer.lock)
Application
composer.jso
n
Config and
custom files ...
Packages
Packages
Packages
Separation of
concerns
Modularization - a
clear separation
between different
components of an
application

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Service: Building and testing infrastructure
blugento provides a full build
and test infrastructure.
Continuous integration -
automatic start a new build on
code changes.
Run any tests given in the
code
Automatically provide new
application version for
continuous deployment or
continuous delivery
Build
build.yml
Makefile, ...
Build
Test
Package
This is the place where most of the
magic happens.
Where the code, provided by the
customer or his agency, is
converted into a real application.
Where the built application is
tested.
And packaged
Code in → application out

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Service: Application storage
blugento provides a container image registry.
This is where the final application is stored
waiting for its installment. Including all
requirements.
This application images are used to start the
application for staging, demo or production.
They ensure all installments are an exact clone.
No “works on my machine” problems.
Container
Dockerfile
/rootfs/, ...
Image
PROD
Image
STAGE
HTTPD
DBMS
RE
Services ...
Key component for fast
repeatable non
mutating deployment
processes required for
scaling or self healing
platforms

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Service: Controlling interface
blugento provides web UI to control start/stop/update of your
application.
This is the place where the customers controls his running
applications instances.
… controls update of applications instances.
... controls who has access to his applications.
… manages his environments, where to deploy his applications
Stack
docker-
compose.yml
config.yml, ...
PROD
STAGE
TEST
Demo
Demo
Demo
...

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Service: Hosting
blugento provides and/or manages the hosting environment
to run the application.
This is the place where the application is actually running and
serving requests
… automatic scaling of your applications
... self healing for failing instances
Environment
terraform.tf
ansible.yml
AWS ECS
Kubernete
s
Docker

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Buzzword Bingo
With blugento you enable your applications for:
● Continuous integration
● Continuous delivery
● Continuous deployment
● Complete auditing on every aspect of business changes to your application
● Mitigating “works on my machine”
● Automatic scaling
● Self healing
● SSO and Access control
● Monitoring
● Faster time to market
● Development scaling (through modularization and containerization)
● Unified development processes

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Principles in blugento
Open (Source) - All services and software used is freely available without blugento
No Vendor Lock-In - Any service or component can be replaced by customer
Everything as code - Every change is logged: Who, When, Why and What
Modularization - Services → Containers → Packages → Modules
Separation of concerns -
Continuous workflow (- integration, - deployment, - delivery)
Single responsibility - Simpler components → Easier development scaling
Automation everywhere - Building, Deploying, Hosting, Monitoring

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Open Source - Free - no Vendor Lock-In
blugento provides No Vendor Lock-In
We are using Open Source components
and open standards everywhere.
Every single component is freely available on the Internet.
The customer is free to opt out from single services
provided by blugento and run them on their own.
The customer is free to audit single services or components.
Documentation and help is freely available on the Internet.