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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).
(Score: 2) by EvilSS on Monday October 21 2019, @01:54PM (3 children)
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Monday October 21 2019, @01:59PM (1 child)
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
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.
Young people won't believe you if you say you used to get Netflix by US Postal Mail.
(Score: 4, Informative) by opinionated_science on Monday October 21 2019, @04:03PM
anyone want to bet Micro$oft will use this to increase billing on the "platform?