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Microsoft Releases Rudr, an Implementation of Their New Open Application Model

posted by Fnord666 on Monday October 21 2019, @11:56AM   Printer-friendly
from the non-standard-standard dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

On Wednesday, Microsoft and Alibaba Cloud revealed "an open standard for developing and operating applications on Kubernetes and other platforms," that isn't yet a standard and looks rather redundant in light of similar projects.

The Open Application Model (OAM), released as an open source project under the oversight of the Open Web Foundation, defines how to describe applications in a way that separates the concerns of developers – how the application is made – and operators – how the application is deployed.

For example, a developer implementing file storage might specify that data will get written to a file path but wouldn't need to be describe what the kind of storage volume that gets mounted or how that requirement gets fulfilled.

"Separating the application definition from the operational details of the cluster enables application developers to focus on the key elements of their application rather than the operational details of where it deploys," Microsoft explains in a blog post, noting that this separation of concerns allows code to be more modular, reusable, and reliable.

The OAM model covers components (discrete, runnable, described units), workload types (that a component can execute), traits (defining operations-specific features like auto-scaling), application scopes (boundaries representing groups of components), and an application configuration (describing component instances, traits, and scopes, in conjunction with configuration data).

Microsoft has also created an implementation of its specification, a project called Rudr, which sounds like it ought to be ride sharing app for boats but really is just a name chosen for its thematic association with Kubernetes (Greek for a ship's captain or pilot).

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by hendrikboom on Monday October 21 2019, @01:36PM (4 children)

    by hendrikboom (1125) Subscriber Badge on Monday October 21 2019, @01:36PM (#909861) Homepage Journal

    For example, a developer implementing file storage might specify that data will get written to a file path but wouldn't need to be describe what the kind of storage volume that gets mounted or how that requirement gets fulfilled.

    I thought Unix took care of that in the 70's?
    Or Multics did that even earlier?

    So ... What is this new proposal incompatible with? Slashes? backslashes?

    -- hendrik

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  • (Score: 2) by EvilSS on Monday October 21 2019, @01:54PM (3 children)

    by EvilSS (1456) Subscriber Badge on Monday October 21 2019, @01:54PM (#909871)
    If I'm reading the summary correctly, this allows the dev to define generic requirements for the environment it runs in (like storage capabilities in the case of the summary), and then on the hosting provider end this is translated that into the specific resources and features available on its platform and assigns it. This helps to further uncouple the container from the platform, making it easier to deploy across multiple cloud platforms using automation, for example.

    • (Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Monday October 21 2019, @01:59PM (1 child)

      by hendrikboom (1125) Subscriber Badge on Monday October 21 2019, @01:59PM (#909874) Homepage Journal

      Ah! We're talking containers and adapting them to the execution environment. That's different.

      • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday October 22 2019, @02:12PM

        by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday October 22 2019, @02:12PM (#910319) Journal

        Yes, but you're missing something important.

        This great new platform, and the fact that it can work on different platforms will be exclusive to Microsoft platforms. That greatly increases the value of it (making it worth more money) and magically draws ignorant Microsoft cult fanboy developers to it.

        --
        To transfer files: right-click on file, pick Copy. Unplug mouse, plug mouse into other computer. Right-click, paste.

    • (Score: 4, Informative) by opinionated_science on Monday October 21 2019, @04:03PM

      by opinionated_science (4031) on Monday October 21 2019, @04:03PM (#909899)

      anyone want to bet Micro$oft will use this to increase billing on the "platform?