The RADON xOpera SaaS and Template Library overview Video is now live!

News 30/07/2021

The xOpera ecosystem includes tools that target optimizing deployment processes and reducing the human factor along with a faster preparation of deployment scripts. The video presented in this blog points out the most crucial functionalities of xOpera SaaS and TPS:

  • Template Library Publishing Service (TPS) opens up a place for publishing, storing, managing, downloading and versioning of OASIS TOSCA modules and blueprints (i.e., TOSCA CSARs). 
  • Similar templates can be grouped together to form a FaaS abstraction layer such as a bundle of ready to use templates for deployment to cloud providers (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenFaaS, etc.).
  • Template groups in TPS can be used for connecting to corresponding groups of users and therefore enable working on different templates in a team and sharing them with other teams later. 
  • TPS brings different modes of interaction such as REST API, CLI client, browser-based GUI and Eclipse Che/VS Code plugin. 
  • Published deployment scripts in TPS can orchestrate the deployment with xOpera SaaS, which introduces a browser service for orchestration with a lightweight opera orchestrator compliant with OASIS TOSCA standard and powered by Ansible automation engine. 
  • Users can choose the corresponding templates and create a new project, secrets and credentials for deployment. Then they can deploy the application and observe the progress and status of the deployment. 
  • It is possible to organize multiple projects in multiple workspaces, manage provider credentials and assign them directly to workspaces. They can all run concurrently and users can even share the workspaces with other members. 
  • Apart from standard validation, deployment and un-deployment, xOpera SaaS also offers more complex orchestration actions such as redeployment, discovering template differences or invoking TOSCA policy triggers to enable vertical or horizontal scaling. 
  • The SaaS component is available through an API, GUI or Eclipse Che/VS Code plugin. The core part of the SaaS is the opera orchestrator, which is CLI and can be installed as a Python package from PyPI.

The following videos show how xOpera SaaS and Template Library work in action: