Cloud integration

Overview

The TxFlow 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 TxFlow 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

TxFlow 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.

Footnotes

1. kubernetes.io ↩

2. Multicloud — Wikipedia ↩

3. Cloud computing — Wikipedia ↩

4. kubernetes — cloud.google.com ↩

5. kubernetes engine — openshift.com ↩

6. eks — aws.amazon.com ↩

7. kubernetes service — azure.microsoft.com ↩

8. kubernetes — alibabacloud.com ↩