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Application topologies

This describes the core application topologies that will be used to validate function and determine relative priority of feature implementation. This is by no means a complete list and the ordering may change over time as we gain additional feedback from users.

Prime topology - platform 2.5 tiered application

Description

This is the topology currently being used as the primary touchstone for feature support and priority. It's based off the docker voting app as a great example of a mapping from a traditional tiered application to a containerized environment. This is not assumed to be a pure twelve factor app because while that significantly simplifies the infrastructure requirements it's not a viable assumption for all workloads.

There are two scenarios described in the breakdown:

  1. unmodified voting app
  2. voting app using non-containerized database with direct exposure to an external network on the front-end

Application workflow has examples on building these applications. The voting app illustrates scenario 1, discussed above. In this example, the entire voting app and all tiers are created as a self-enclosed set of containers. Docker-compose is used to orchestrate the deployment.

The second scenario is assumed to be a better reflection of probable deployment scenarios as people are moving to containerized workloads, hence the description of this as a 2.5 platform application.

TODO: Add an example to the application workflow docs illustrating scenario 2.