Open Application Model
OAM is an open source standard developed by Microsoft and Alibaba to guide us in creating higher-level abstraction APIs for application deployment. In other words, it’s about creating a model for application configuration management using composition as a pattern. The standard focus on addressing the following three problems:
- Developer focus: Exposing developers directly to Kubernetes configuration management to deploy the applications will make them spend time figuring out infrastructure details rather than application focus. Hence, OAM attempts to keep developers focused on the application.
- Vendor dependency: Configuring applications usually tends to depend on the underlying infrastructure. Completely decoupling the application configuration from the underlying infrastructure can enable the portability of workloads. Kubernetes does this to an extent, but the area requires more work with cross-cutting concerns and COTS dependencies.
- Extendibility...
