Working with Availability Zones
Availability Zones (AZ) on Apiculus are a highly versatile and unique way of managing Service delivery and availability. Apiculus AZ are essentially control planes for underlying ISV, which are set up to handle a host of delivery scenarios. Apiculus AZ also take into consideration the limitations that an ISV may bring (e.g., inability to manage multiple serviceable regions via a single management plane). In other words, Apiculus AZ may be seen as the 'delivery-level unification' of all underlying cloud services into a service topology.
The following is a description of AZ for each type of Service that uses AZ:
| Service | Availability Zone |
|---|---|
| Linux/Windows Instances | CloudStack-based |
| Block Volumes | |
| Virtual Private Clouds | |
| IPv4 Addresses | |
| Kubernetes | |
| Load Balancer Instances | |
| Virtual Firewall Instances | |
| Secondary Storage & Data Transfer | |
| Metal Instances | MAAS-based |
| Object Storage | HyperStore-based |
Mapping an Availability Zone
For mapping a new availability zone, navigate to Services > Availability Zones and click on the + MAP NEW AVAILABILITY ZONE button, and pop over the window that will open up and fill in/ choose the following details:
- AVAILABILITY ZONE – The name you want to display or call this availability Zone.
- REGION – Choose any regions listed; these regions’ data will be displayed as configured on the ACS.
- CLOUDSTACK ZONE - Choose any of the listed zones.
- HYPERVISOR- Choose any of the hypervisors available in the list.
- CLUSTER- Choose any of the available clusters in the list.
- LABEL – Choose any of the available labels. Currently, there are two labels present, i.e., Basic and Premium.
Once you have filled in and chosen the above options, click on the CREATE AVAILABILITY ZONE.
If you want to save these created availability zones as a draft, click on the SAVE AS DRAFT button and, cancel the action, click on the CANCEL button.
Disabling or Deleting an AZ will cascade into all the Cloud Collections, Default Services and Custom Catalogues that use the AZ.
Currently, only the option to map CloudStack-based AZ is available on the Apiculus admin console UI. Support for other types of AZ is being developed.