Containers are a common way to bundle and run applications. In production environments, a key aspect is ensuring that there are no system downtimes. With growing systems and many applications not only that but also resource management becomes more difficult.

This is where Kubernetes helps out. Kubernetes provides a framework to run distributed systems resiliently. It is a portable, extensible, open-source platform for managing containerized workloads and services, that facilitates both declarative configuration and automation. Thus, Kubernetes takes care of scaling and failover for system application, provides deployment patterns, and more:

• Service discovery and load balancing
• Storage orchestration
• Automated rollouts and rollbacks
• Self-healing
• Future-proof Solution: Works on-premise and in the cloud

At HighQSoft, we migrated the following products to Kubernetes:

• AReS Libertas (ASAM ODS6 server)
• AReS Gateway
• HQL
• HQL Gateway
• HQL Web-Service
• IIOP Gateway

As a next step, HQL and AReS Gateway will be enhanced with advanced Monitoring and Logging features.