Overview

The Swiftflow package described here is containerized as a Docker/Kubernetes¹ web server application. It can be deployed on any infrastructure that accepts Kubernetes, which includes multi-cloud² or hybrid cloud³ contexts.

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

In addition of the environment-agnostic Kubernetes application, specific requirements have to be satisfied to integrate to GCP⁴. In particular, the original package has to be extended by a side-car billing engine that enables the usage-based pricing. The below figure shows how the Swiftflow package is integrated in a GCP context. A major feature of this approach is to enable for the regionality of all services, or in other words to avoid for any traffic across data centers and related cross-region transfer of potentially sensitive data.

On-premise / Other clouds

Swiftflow can be deployed on any compatible infrastructure that accepts Kubernetes, like Openshift⁵, Amazon Web Services (AWS)⁶, Azure⁷, Alibaba Cloud⁸, etc …
If you are interested by those alternatives, please reach out to us on info@alpina-analytics.com. Be aware that in those cases, a one-to-one licensing model will have to be defined in place of to the usage-based pricing available on GCP. Additional details relevant to the installation of the Kubernetes cluster can be found here.

1. https://kubernetes.io/
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicloud
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing#Hybrid_cloud
4. https://cloud.google.com/marketplace/docs/partners/kubernetes
5. https://www.openshift.com/
6. https://aws.amazon.com/eks/
7. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/kubernetes-service/
8. https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/kubernetes