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Infrastructure Technologies

In the case of infrastructure, it will always vary widely from project to project. However, we provide a reference Kubernetes-based infrastructure for deployment, and Docker-based infrastructure for local development.

The technologies here should be viewed as for reference only unless otherwise stated. Individual projects and deployments usually swap these components out as they have clients tend to have

Technologist List​

The following is a non-exhaustive list of technologies we use in the management of our infrastructure.

Docker​

Docker is an open source container provider. Essentially, we are containerizing and distributing our applications as containers. We're directly dependent on Docker, but Docker & containers has become synonymous.

We're actually officially using Podman but projects are free to purchase and use Docker Desktop if it suites them.

Why we've chosen Docker​

Any OCI (Open Container Initiative) compliant container engine should be sufficient.

Kubernetes​

In order to support a micro-services architecture, we need to be able to orchestrate the automatic scaling or services. Our services need to be containerized and monitored, stood up or down depending on their needs, and have their traffic routed accordingly.

Why we've chosen Kubernetes​

The de-facto standard across the industry for container orchestration is Kubernetes, which is what we've adopted.

Traefik​

Traefik is a cloud-native HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer designed for use with microservices.

Why we've chosen Traefik​

We use Traefik as a reverse proxy and load balancer to manage access to cluster services in Kubernetes. It is open source, well-documented, and is actively maintained and developed by a large community of users and contributors.

ArgoCD​

Declarative continuous delivery GitOps tool with a fully-loaded UI built for Kubernetes.

Why we've chosen ArgoCD​

ArgoCD allows to easily automate deployments using Git repositories as the source of truth.