What is the Industrial Internet?
Industrial Internet (Industrial Internet) is a new type of infrastructure, application mode and industrial ecology that is deeply integrated with the new generation of information and communication technology and the industrial economy. The new manufacturing and service system of the value chain provides a way for the digital, networked, and intelligent development of industry and even industries, and is an important cornerstone of the fourth industrial revolution.
What is Cloud Native Architecture?
A cloud-native architecture is an approach to optimize software delivery using modern cloud infrastructure. Its main features are microservices, containerization, automation, and observability. It realizes the rapid development, construction and delivery of the microservice architecture through the application of containerization and container orchestration technology, making the software more scalable, highly available and maintainable.
Cloud native architecture mainly includes the following aspects:
Microservice architecture: split the application into small, independent service units, each service unit only focuses on solving certain business problems.
Containerization: Package applications and their dependencies into a standard container format to enable cross-machine and cross-platform deployment of applications.
Container orchestration: manage and coordinate the deployment, expansion, and shrinking of applications through the container orchestration platform.
Automated O&M: Automate O&M operations such as development, deployment, monitoring, expansion, and update of cloud-native applications.
Observability: Real-time observability of cloud-native applications through logs, monitoring, and alarms.
Why implement cloud native in the industrial Internet?
Due to its unique features such as thread isolation and resource allocation, the cloud native architecture has been widely used in the field of industrial Internet, and has the following advantages:
Response to business changes: Based on the cloud-native architecture, rapid business changes can be realized, enabling enterprises to respond to market demands more quickly.
Increase system reliability: Adopt containerization to make the deployment of industrial Internet applications more standardized, reduce the complexity of application deployment and operation and maintenance, and thus improve system reliability.
Increase system scalability: Based on containerization, cloud-native applications can more easily scale applications horizontally, improving system scalability.
Improve system security: In order to protect the system security of the industrial Internet, the cloud native architecture adopts multiple container isolation methods, thereby improving the security performance of the system.
The benefits of implementing cloud native in the industrial Internet
The core feature of the Industrial Internet is: the Internet of Things, which connects various devices, people, systems, etc. to the Internet. After connecting in, why do we need cloud native? The value of cloud native to cloud applications is very clear, so why should we emphasize the implementation of cloud native in the industrial Internet?
In fact, the core of the Industrial Internet is the Internet of Things, and the core of the Internet of Things is edge computing. With the improvement of hardware technology and the reduction of cost, many edge devices and even terminal devices have good computing power, instead of the original simple logic control. This also enables cloud applications to be delivered to the edge to run. Since applications can run on the edge, why can't they be run in the same way as the cloud? The answer is of course yes! The use of microservice architecture and container technology at the edge also brings agility, reliability, and scalability to edge applications.
How does CloudOS land in the industrial Internet?
As an enterprise-level one-stop cloud-native application development and operation platform, how can CloudOS be integrated with the edge computing of the Internet of Things and implemented in the industrial Internet scene? (For children's shoes who don't know about our CloudOS, please refer to our official website https://www.cloudtogo.cn/product-CloudOS)
Cloud 1.0 version supports one-stop design, development, testing, delivery and operation and maintenance of cloud applications, such as CRM system, e-commerce system, procurement management system, ERP, financial system, etc.
This year, we cooperated with a domestic first-tier new energy company to jointly build an IoT platform. In this IoT platform project, we expanded the capabilities of CloudOS and expanded the concept of "application" from cloud applications to edge applications. terminal application.
In CloudOS, the application design diagram is an architecture diagram, which is instantiated into specific applications by delivering this architecture diagram to different computing resources. Truly develop once and deliver everywhere.
In our CloudOS 2.0, the design state of an application may contain multiple components, some components need to run on the cloud, and some components need to run on the edge. We only need to deliver different components to different resource pools in a visual way in CloudOS.
The following figure is an example. The application contains 3 components, 2 of which run on the cloud and one runs on the edge. Components running on the edge obtain camera data and send it to the cloud for identification.
Through the capabilities of our CloudOS, services can be delivered to the edge very conveniently. At the same time, the complexity of container technology is shielded from developers to ensure their data security.
CloudOS 1.0 - Develop in one place, deliver in many clouds.
CloudOS 2.0—Development on the cloud and delivery on the edge.