Cloud Native Environments

You can orchestrate the cloud-native Converged Application Server deployements using Kuberenetes with Docker containers. Docker containers bundle software and their dependencies to allow for quick deployment of bundled applications on cloud native environments. See the Cloud Deployment Guide.

REST APIs for Config and Runtime MBeans

You can use the new REST API to access the Config and Runtime MBeans. See the Developer Guide.

Dynamic Cluster for On-Prem

Dynamic Cluster domains help scale up and scale down on-prem deployments.

Third-Party Tools

The cloud native Converged Application Server may be used with two sets of third-party monitoring tools:

• The EFK stack for monitoring logs
• Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring KPI metrics

The EFK stack is the combination of Elasticsearch, FluentD, and Kibana working together to centralize log files for easy monitoring. FluentD gathers logs files from multiple nodes and sends them to Elasticsearch, which stores and indexes them, while Kibana provides the front-end web interface.

The cloud native Converged Application Serveri can also use the WebLogic Monitoring Exporter to export Prometheus-compatible metrics that are then exposed to Grafana, which visualizes the metrics over time to provide futher insights into the data.

See the Cloud Deployment Guide.