Dependencies

Applications don't exist in a vacuum. They have dependencies. Threeport manages all the dependencies for an application so that a development team can start with absolutely no infrastructure or runtime environment and readily deploy their application using Threeport.

Threeport treats the following concerns as application dependencies:

• Cloud Infrastructure: Threeport orchestrates the provisioning, availability and autoscaling of all compute and networking infra needed to run an application.
• Container Orchestration: Kubernetes is the most capable runtime environment for cloud native software. Threeport installs and configures Kubernetes environments for the application being deployed.
• Support Services: Applications need support services installed on Kubernetes to provide things like network connectivity, TLS termination, DNS record management, secrets, metrics and log aggregation. Threeport installs and configures these support services for each application deployed.
• Managed Services: Many applications use cloud provider and/or commercial managed services such as databases or observability services as a part of their stack. Threeport orchestrates the provisioning and connectivity for the application's workloads to make these managed services available.

The ultimate end-user of Threeport is the developer or operator that needs to deploy and manage instances of their applications - for development, testing, staging or production. The user provides a config for their app that declares its dependencies. Threeport orchestrates the delivery of the application workloads along with all their dependencies.

Next Steps

To get a practical understanding of how Threeport manages delivery, check out our Getting Started page which provides the steps to install Threeport and use it to deploy a sample application.