ORCHESTRA: Transforming App Lifecycle Management

In order to build comprehensive IoT solutions, it is crucial to have special tools. Discover how CTHINGS.CO Orchestra’s CALM tool simplifies deployment, management, and monitoring of applications across your IoT devices.

Managing an expansive IoT network with many devices and applications can be a challenging. Deploying, monitoring, and ensuring consistency across a fleet of IoT devices often demands considerable time and effort.

At CTHINGS.CO, we understand these challenges, which is why we developed the Containerized App Lifecycle Management (CALM) tool within our Orchestra platform. Whether it’s a small or large IoT network, this tool is designed to simplify the deployment, management, and monitoring of applications across your IoT devices.  

Simplified Device Management with Fleets

One of the key features of CALM is the concept of a fleet. A fleet is a collection of devices and compositions that you can manage as a single entity. By grouping your devices into fleets, you can deploy configurations more efficiently. This eliminates the need to manage each device individually, allowing you to focus on the overall configuration of your IoT solution.

Efficient Application Deployment with Compositions

Compositions in CALM are objects that describe how to deploy an application using Docker Compose, the industry standard for managing deployments. By utilizing Compose YAML files, you can define the deployment process for your applications. These files, once added to CALM, become compositions with semantic versioning support. This means you can maintain multiple versions of your application, selecting the appropriate one when making a release.

Seamless Release Management

Creating a release in CALM is straightforward. Once you select a composition version to deploy, CALM handles the rest. It ensures the requested configuration is deployed on your devices, taking into account availability and resource constraints. CALM also continuously monitors the deployment status, giving you peace of mind that your applications are running as intended.

Managing Multiple Compositions

CALM allows for the deployment of multiple compositions on a single fleet. Each release is assigned a unique label, ensuring that removing one deployment does not affect others. This flexibility enables you to manage complex application environments with ease.

Real-Time Monitoring and Updates

With CALM, you can stay up to date with the status of your devices and the applications running on them. The tool provides comprehensive monitoring capabilities, ensuring that your configurations are applied correctly and consistently across your fleet.

Conclusion

By automating and simplifying the deployment and management processes, Orchestra lets you focus on the bigger picture of your IoT solution. You no longer need to handle your devices separately; instead, you can concentrate on optimizing your overall IoT infrastructure.

You can try Orchestra for free, here.