Learn more about Network Automation and Microservices Application 1. Monolithic vs Microservices Architecture 2. Primary Changes of Application Microservices 3. Microservices Architecture and the Network 4. Ways to Overcome the Challenges 5. How does AppViewX Help?

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Driving Network Automation and
Microservices Applications

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Monolithic vs Microservices Architecture
Monolithic Architecture
 Application, Business Logic, and Data
Layers are all tightly packaged as a
single unit
 Traffic flows through static, clearly
defined paths
 Changes to any of the layers requires
the entire infrastructure to be
reconfigured
Microservices Architecture
 Application components are broken down
into modular, loosely-coupled services that
can function as independent units.
 Since each application has several
independent units, traffic to the application
flows through dynamic, distributed paths.
 Changes made to one unit/module do not
affect the others

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Primary Drivers for Application Microservices
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Distributed ownership
Technology
flexibility
Rapid application
development and delivery
Failure isolation and
fault tolerance
Hyper-
scalable
Digital
Transformation

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Microservices Architecture and the Network
Networking Challenges in Microservices:
 Application service instances are demand-based, ephemeral, and
have dynamic IPs
 East-West traffic between microservices grows exponentially
 Requires several load balancers to route traffic through multiple
service instances
 The proliferation of load balancers can lead to high latency in
processing requests
 The DNS, load balancers, and firewalls need to be updated every
time a service instance is created or destroyed
 Keeping track of the numbers, health, and performance of
microservices is tough

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 Having a central service discovery mechanism to dynamically detect and connect services
across on-premise and cloud infrastructures
 Having a central monitoring mechanism that tracks the health and performance of
microservices during run-time
 Having a central failover policy that facilitates random load-balancing to reduce latency
 Having tools to automatically update load balancers, DNS, and firewalls with new and
deleted microservice instances.
Ways to overcome the challenges

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 AppViewX is a low-code NetOps and DevSecOps orchestration platform. It provides modular, intuitive,
context-aware automation for application services and networks across multi-vendor, hybrid-cloud
environments.
 It discovers and manages all network devices in the context of the overall infrastructure, including their
state and status, health, and performance.
 You can configure traffic management policies on load balancers and firewalls to dynamically enact
failover in case a service dies, using the code-free Visual Workflow builder or by calling integrated
third-party configuration management tools, like Ansible, Chef, or Puppet.
 You can also create workflows using Visual Workflows to automate firewall, load balancer, and firewall
updates every time an application service is added or removed.
 AppViewX provides an application-centric topological view of the network infrastructure,
microservices, their interconnections and traffic flows in the form of dashboards and InfraMaps.
How does AppViewX help?

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Automation with AppViewX
DISCOVER MANAGE DESIGN AUTOMATE
network components
and configurations in
existing data centers
multi-vendor and hybrid
infrastructure from a
visual view
the automation and
workflow for each
network component
network service
requests from a catalog
or visual view
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Salient Features
 One-touch Network Orchestration
 Multi-cloud, Vendor-agnostic
 Context, Config, and State Aware
 Drag-and-drop Visual Workflow Builder
 Reusable Workflows
 Granular RBAC

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