The OTDI Container Service is a managed Docker and Kubernetes container platform built to security standards and allows application developers to deliver value faster. Some examples include:
- Development teams want improved agility and ability to deliver services to their customer faster leveraging immutable architecture design patterns and quicker path to continuous deployment.
- Development teams want to focus on their core value add and not spend time on servers, storage, load-balancers, container orchestration, and integration with core services like Shibboleth, DUO, and Splunk.
- Application teams want to quickly standup a highly-available ElasticSearch, Tomcat/Java, and complex orchestrated n-tier microservice or mini apps using modern design pattern.
This service provides:
- Fully managed highly available container platform running enterprise class Kubernetes service.
- Prebuilt integration with OSU infrastructure services such as Gitlab and Jenkins.
- Managed SSL Certificates.
- Development, Test, and Production environments.
- Backups and recovery from site more than 25 miles from campus.
- Dashboard and API access to enable application automation.
- Container dashboard provided by the delivered Kubernetes dashboard GUI and monitoring provided by Sysdig Monitor.
- Private git repo services (repo.service.osu.edu).
- Domain Name Service (DNS) allowing rapid deployment of new services.
- 30-days of logical backups for shared Network File Storage (NFS) with DR replication.
- SaaS MySQL platform providing 99.9+% availability leveraging automated fail over to secondary data center.
- SaaS PostgreSQL platform providing 99.9+% availability leveraging manual failover to secondary data center.
- SaaS options for standard ElasticSearch and Java/Tomcat deployments.
- Automated cluster-wide monitoring and notification 24x7.
- 24x7 Admin support for cluster outage or diminished functionality.
- Admin support hours for other requests are limited to University Business hours, 8am-5pm, M-F.
- Database Software patching and upgrades will occur during the automated monthly patching window on Sundays, 5-7am.
- Advance communication of patch maintenance schedules through Change Management (CABS) and predefined host maintenance schedules provided by ESS (30 Day Patching schedules).
- One major PostgreSQL upgrade per year (see PostgreSQL: Versioning Policy).
- On-disk encryption for all data stored on OTDI servers.
- Platform and Database Full Compliance with the University’s Security Standards as detailed by the Information Security Control Requirements (also see Special Considerations)
- Assistance with requesting OTDI Firewalls.
Pricing and Ordering Instructions
View the service catalog listing for information on pricing and to request the service.