Release of version 5.6 of rainbow, add multiple installation methods, and optimize the topology operation experience

Rainbond 5.6  edition , It is mainly committed to improving the topology diagram operation efficiency and fast installation experience , Lower the threshold of users .

Interpretation of main function points ：

Support stand-alone quick experience

To facilitate a quick installation experience on a stand-alone computer Rainbond, The current version supports installation and experience through one command , The supported platforms now include ：

• Linux

• Linux（ARM）

• Mac（Intel）

• Mac（M1）

• Windows

Fast installation

Support Helm Installation mode

Helm  Provides a simple set of commands , With the help of developers  Charts  The package completes the installation of the application 、 to update 、 upgrade 、 Rollback and other operations . The current version passes  Helm  As a package management tool, it adapts to most of the  Kubernetes  type , These types include ：

• Use different installation tools （ Such as kubeadm、sealos） Various versions of standards deployed  Kubernetes  colony ;

• Launched by major cloud service providers  Kubernetes  As a service cloud product , Such as ali cloud ACK、 Tencent cloud TKE、 Hua Wei Yun CCE;

• be based on  Kubernetes  Other container infrastructure implemented by the specification , Such as Rancher、 K3s 、Kubedge;

Helm install

Optimize the topology map operation experience

In the previous version , because  Rainbond  There are many levels of presentation , When a user operates on a single component , It is often necessary to switch to the component view , This makes user operations more hierarchical , We can't get the information we need at the first time . This time, we optimized the display information of the topology map , So that it can give more information at the application level , And operate . Reduce the burden of entering the component view .

The information displayed in the new version is as follows ：

In the new version , A row of component operation buttons are shown in the topology diagram display information , Access components 、 Get into Web terminal 、 Update components 、 Close the component 、 Delete component . Users can quickly operate components according to these buttons , At the same time, the container information in the component is shown below . It greatly improves the operation efficiency of users .

Add topology graph aggregation mode

In the actual use of the enterprise , Components under an application , Often rely on components under other applications , At this time, the topology information seen by the user will be large and messy , The application to which other components belong cannot be quickly identified . At this time, for users , The dependency between multiple applications is not clear . To solve this problem , We have added a new topology graph aggregation pattern . under these circumstances , It can more clearly show the dependencies between multiple applications .

In normal mode , You can see that the application depends on multiple components , But we are not clear about the relationship between these components .

We switch to aggregation mode , You can see , The relationship between components and other applications is clear .

It opens at  Gitlab  The topology of this application , We can know the running status of the application , And dependent component information .

Gateway path rewriting is supported

Before  Rainbond  The gateway only implements simple location agent , It does not provide functions related to route rewriting . When there is such a need ：

To set the target service

http://{upstream}/index.html

Of path Add an extra layer of virtual directories to access ：

http://example/abc/index.html

. achieve  http://example/abc/index.html => http://{upstream-1}/index.html  The effect of . The corresponding gateway configuration is as follows .

location / { rewrite /abc(/|$)(.*) /$2 last; proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1;}

Now we need to implement this complex rewrite To configure , Just in UI Fill in the corresponding fields on the , As shown in the figure below ：

Detailed change points

New function

• 【 Application management 】 Promote the topology diagram to display information ;

• 【 Application management 】 Support topology graph aggregation mode ;

• 【 gateway administration 】 Gateway path rewriting is supported ;
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Optimize features

• 【 Component management 】 Optimize the process of adding components ;

• 【 install 】 Support arm64 edition ;

• 【 install 】 Support helm install ;

• 【 install 】 Support docker in docker Mode to start the test environment ;

BUG  Repair

• 【 Component management 】 Fix the problem that the gateway policy cannot be accessed after the component is built

• 【 Component management 】 Repair stateful components ( Such as Mysql colony ) Can't start problem

• 【 performance 】 Repair rbd-worker There is a memory leak problem  
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• 【 install 】 Fix the problem of incomplete display of error information during installation

• 【 Component management 】 Repair helm The information of the third-party component associated with the application is incorrect

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About Rainbond

Rainbond  It is an open source cloud native application management platform , Easy to use , You don't need to understand containers and Kubernetes, Support management of multiple Kubernetes colony , Provide full lifecycle management for enterprise applications , Functions include application development environment 、 Application market 、 Microservice architecture 、 Application continuous delivery 、 Application operation and maintenance 、 Application level multi cloud management, etc .

Github：https://github.com/goodrain/rainbond

Official website ：https://www.rainbond.com?channel=infoq

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