Deployment topologies

Before we can look at the deployment topologies for CP4BA, we need to understand the platform CP4BA runs on: Red Hat OpenShift. As mentioned in the problem statement, the enterprise has a shared service platform that is built on OpenShift.

OpenShift is built on Kubernetes, which is the backbone of the platform that deploys and runs CP4BA. Kubernetes (k8s) was originally designed by Google to help improve and expedite software deployment. k8s, with the help of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNFC), has become the de facto standard for running containers. Kubernetes and containers take virtualization to the next level to help improve resource utilization through the k8s scheduler. Additionally, as part of k8s’ best practices to define resource requests and limits, such as CPU, it prevents containers from overutilizing resources. This is not the case when running applications as processes on a virtual machine. Hence, application to a virtual machine...