Editor's note:
EasyStack ECS, a new generation private cloud of EasyStack, commercializes the operation and maintenance experience of 1,000+ large and medium-sized enterprise customers and tens of thousands of node-scale cloud platforms, and realizes light operation and maintenance. It is based on a safe, stable, and efficient new-generation data center distributed cloud operating system. It separates the platform from the service through an integrated and scenario-based design concept, and realizes the evolvability and light operation and maintenance capabilities of the entire platform. In terms of light operation and maintenance, it can realize the intelligent unified operation and maintenance of ultra-large-scale cloud computing centers. It not only realizes the visualization and automation of logs, monitoring, and alarms, but also autonomously detects changes in system topology and service status, and then realizes intelligent perception Fault pre-diagnosis analysis and rapid self-healing.
This article is an upgrade article of the Easy Cloud Light Operation and Maintenance series.
After years of development and accumulation, most companies already have a large number of IT systems, such as OA, ERP, websites, databases, material management, etc., which have become the core center of their daily business work. However, with the continuous expansion of enterprise business development, management reform and application level, the problem that the underlying private cloud platform cannot meet the business needs of enterprises has gradually emerged. In the face of increasingly complex IT architectures and emerging technologies, private cloud platforms that support enterprise business innovation not only need to meet the needs of new workloads and architecture evolution, but also need to use intelligent technology to achieve self-iteration and evolution.
Unified evolvable architecture design, no sense of upgrade of cloud platform
Traditional private clouds are solidified, stable and isolated. Generally, existing cloud platforms can only scale horizontally, and new services and functions cannot be introduced into existing cloud platforms. Clouds are isolated. If a new cloud platform is built, it needs to be introduced. the new version of the software; and Express line goes next-generation private clouds EasyStack ECS can achieve sustainable evolution of cloud capabilities, the same cloud can not only scale, but also allows simultaneous iterative upgrade customer environments, solve the fragmentation problem, without concern Version software, without data migration, service interruption, and business unawareness, remotely realize the smooth upgrade of cloud platform software and hardware through OTA (Over the Air) .
How does Yijiexingyun's new generation of private cloud ECS achieve a smooth and senseless upgrade? The ECS control plane of Yijiexing Cloud's new generation of private cloud adopts a unified microservice evolvable architecture to design, and the bottom layer realizes microservice management related functions. The control plane has powerful fault self-healing characteristics, which fully guarantees the high availability of control management services. Different control management services are independent of each other, using fine-grained micro-service resource isolation, and a single component upgrade will not affect other components. In addition, each control service component uses a multi-copy mechanism to run, and the upgrade process adopts a rolling upgrade method, which does not affect business continuity and has the characteristics of rapid iteration of new functions.
In addition to the microservice control plane, the host operating system and distributed cloud operating system at the bottom of the cloud platform can also be upgraded smoothly.
Automatic deployment and upgrade without manual intervention
The ECS Automation Center of Yijiexing Cloud's new generation of private cloud is responsible for the automatic deployment of the software platform, which can realize the automatic discovery of hardware devices and platform configuration management. It also undertakes the version management function and smoothly upgrades the control plane through the upgrade service. The upgrade process is extremely simple, and you can quickly deploy cloud services such as the server's underlying operating system, data center operating system, computing, storage, and network through graphical wizard-style operations. After the deployment starts, no manual intervention is required, and the process is visualized, which not only has no impact on the currently running business, but also has no impact on the operation of the control service, and truly achieves a smooth upgrade.
Yijiexingyun's new generation private cloud ECS automation center
1. Realize the upgrade operation of micro-service granularity, cloud platform service production-level high availability
Yijiexing Cloud's new generation of private cloud ECS full-platform microservices, covering computing, network, storage modules, application centers, event grids, from databases to message queues, from logs to monitoring and other service components, can be completed Microservice granularity upgrade operation. During the upgrade process, the system will ensure the production-level high availability of cloud platform services through a distributed and highly reliable architecture design. Through the user console of the automation center, users can automatically push and download upgrade packages for OTA services, and complete the upgrade operation of the cloud platform. The upgrade process has no impact on the operating interface and the running cloud host business.
2. Online push of OTA upgrade information, full UI guided automatic upgrade
The new generation of private cloud ECS of Yijiexingyun has the characteristics of high performance and light operation and maintenance. Before the upgrade, OTA upgrade information is pushed online. Customers can complete the full UI wizard-style automated upgrade process without logging in to the background, and advanced cloud services can be upgraded independently; the high availability of system services guarantees the automatic recovery of services. The Event Mesh event grid service is also added to the platform to automatically perform fault analysis and isolation according to the operation of the platform, and drive the automation of operation and maintenance.
3. Continuous evolution, enhanced security capabilities, and promotion of business innovation and development
The new generation of private cloud ECS of Easy Cloud has the ability to continuously evolve, which can support flexible and agile business system requirements, and on the basis of taking into account steady-state business scenarios, it can be more oriented to innovative agile business scenarios and promote new business Innovation and development. At the same time, enhance the security capabilities of the cloud platform, standardize the installation and deployment process, and zero learning costs.
Case: a large-scale logistics group through a private cloud version upgrade to solve the fragmentation problem
Take a large listed logistics company as an example. Since the establishment of a private cloud in 2016, the logistics company has expanded its capacity five times. The company's IT infrastructure has continued to expand, but the number of infrastructure operation and maintenance management personnel is limited, making it difficult to gain timely insight into system problems. In 2020, the company upgraded its internal private cloud to an upgradeable new generation of private cloud, breaking the long-standing problem of separation of computing resources and storage resources, realizing integrated management of operations, computing, network, and storage, and shielding the differentiation of underlying hardware , Based on the multi-dimensional monitoring platform and event network, inject the formed operation and maintenance experience, so as to realize fault self-healing, simplify the difficulty of operation and maintenance, and reduce management costs.
Cloud computing is accelerating to become a new way of providing IT resources. Enterprises will focus more on improving their core competitiveness and get rid of the trouble of maintaining IT underlying information technology. The new generation of ECS private cloud ECS truly simplifies the complicated operation and maintenance of private cloud in the past, simplifies the operation and maintenance of infrastructure, productizes the operation and maintenance experience, and pushes it in an evolvable way; monitoring, log, and alarm capabilities It has also achieved continuous evolution, and finally the high availability and high reliability of users' private clouds have been continuously enhanced, providing new momentum for the digital transformation and upgrading of Chinese enterprises.