This article is shared from Huawei Cloud Community " Huawei Cloud CCE invites you to jointly create the best containerized cloud experience ", author: Cloud Container Big Future.
As containerization increasingly becomes the mainstream choice for medium and large enterprises to migrate to the cloud, how can container services help users migrate to the cloud more easily and quickly, and provide efficient and reliable operation and maintenance?
In order to better solve this problem, the CCE user experience team conducted a large number of user on-site surveys this year to listen to the voices of users. Create a new CCE experience around the common problems in the industry such as complex configuration and high threshold, low efficiency of operation and maintenance information dispersion, and difficulty in upgrading, and propose "ease of use: one-stop cluster configuration, ready to use out of the box", "scenario-based: focus on users" The design concepts of "no jumping out of operation and maintenance management" and "transparency: what you see is what you get, making complex processes transparent" also incorporate Huawei Cloud's new design language to create clusters for users that can be used out of the box and are extremely fast and efficient. Positioning and task transparency and trustworthy containerized cloud experience.
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Design language refreshed and upgraded
The CCE service console applies Huawei Cloud's new design language. The core features of this design language are to be closer to the user's perception of use, focus on improving user friendliness, reduce the difficulty of use, and build an information display structure around user concerns to create a more friendly , convenient use experience.
Intuitive and focused: Extract key information while reducing complex colors on the page, making it clear and intuitive, hoping to help users focus more on key points.
Figure 2 Cluster list optimization
Scenario-based: Effective information collection based on users’ actual scenarios, without the need to jump across services.
Ease of use: one-stop cluster configuration, ready to use out of the box
Many users have reported that the threshold for container technology is relatively high, and users have to figure out many complicated configurations on their own, which is inefficient. The activation and use of some services such as logs require multiple jumps to different services. To address these complex configuration issues, we launched the Configuration Center. In the configuration center, configuration items are classified to facilitate users to uniformly manage the same type of configuration. For specific configuration items, we provide configuration explanations, configuration suggestions, and configuration risks to help users "do it themselves".
Figure 4 Configuration Center Optimization
In terms of operation and maintenance management, we launched the cloud native observation center to realize operation and maintenance management out of the box. The Cloud Native Observation Center integrates monitoring and logging services into the CCE service. Users can complete monitoring and logging with one click on the CCE page, and there is no need to exit the CCE service during use.
Figure 5 Log management optimization
Scenario-based: Focus on user scenarios, without jumping out of operation and maintenance management
During the on-site visit, we found that nearly 80% of engineers’ work scenarios were related to operation and maintenance. Previously, CCE provided basic monitoring capabilities, and users needed to jump to the application operation and maintenance management service to view detailed monitoring and alarms.
Focusing on viewing monitoring and alarm scenarios, we hope that users can focus more on the corresponding resource objects. We propose the design concept of "taking the application as the center and building an end-to-end one-stop operation and maintenance experience."
Focusing on clusters, nodes, loads and Pods, we provide an independent operation and maintenance page that integrates resource health and monitoring to facilitate users to focus on the resources they care about. Users can quickly assess resource health and abnormal items on one page, and complete monitoring at all levels at the same time.
Figure 6 Monitoring center optimization
Regarding alarms, CCE integrates alarm notifications and alarm rules for application operation and maintenance management, and contact management for message notification services. Users can quickly view, process, and configure alarms on CCE without jumping.
Figure 7 Alarm center optimization
Transparency: What you see is what you get, making complex processes transparent
For key operations such as cluster upgrades, the specific change points and impacts are relatively vague, which can easily cause users to worry. For such operations, we use design concepts such as pre-notification of information and visible and reversible processes to give users full rights to know and a sense of control, and to reduce user concerns.
Take cluster upgrade as an example. Because users do not clearly understand the relevant principles and possible impacts, they are not aware of the progress details during the upgrade process and do not dare to upgrade easily. In this optimization, we used visualization and other means to explain the concepts and principles of in-place upgrade to users in advance, inform users of the impact of upgrade on plug-ins and other functions, and reduce users' concerns.
Figure 8 Cluster upgrade process display
Figure 9 Impact of cluster upgrade plug-in
At the same time, for the upgrade process, such as upgrade inspection, the inspection process is presented in the form of a topology diagram, and users can perceive the progress and abnormal conditions from the resource perspective.
Figure 10 Visualization of the cluster upgrade process
For the upgrade process, if the user encounters an abnormality, he or she can call up the accompanying monitoring at any time to assist in locating the problem without jumping to view the monitoring.
Figure 11 Cluster upgrade process monitoring
future vision
Huawei Cloud CCE is committed to providing users with container services that make configuration easier, management more convenient, and processes more transparent. In the future, we will continue to polish the CCE experience and strive to bring more value to users. If you have any suggestions or comments, you can let us know through the feedback below the page. Any comments you have are important to us.
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