Solution-Soft enhances Time Machine® for Containers with Added Support for Service Mesh Environments
SANTA CLARA, CA, August 20, 2024—SolutionSoft Systems Inc., the pioneer in Virtual Clock and Time Shift Testing, announced the availability of a new release of Time Machine® for Containers, tailored for service mesh environments.
In today's dynamic digital landscape, the concept of a service mesh has emerged as a critical component for managing the complexities of modern applications. A service mesh is an infrastructure layer that facilitates seamless communication between microservices within distributed applications, offering vital functionalities such as service discovery, load balancing, encryption, authentication, and authorization. By abstracting away network concerns from application logic, service meshes streamline development and deployment processes while ensuring security, reliability, and observability.
Time Machine for Containers builds on its proven mechanism of a namespace-level virtual clock, offering a streamlined solution for time travel and deployment within service mesh architectures. This release significantly advances time travel application testing within containerized environments by enabling time travel in service mesh setups.
Time Machine for Containers eliminates the need to modify container images within the namespace, ensuring a seamless integration of time travel capabilities. This non-intrusive method guarantees security by avoiding the necessity for root privileges and bypassing the need for Time Machine® installation on the container host system.
Time Machine for Containers obtains its license from the Floating License Server's pool, eliminating manual key requirements for each container. This feature is particularly advantageous for dynamic environments where pod fluctuations occur based on loads. Moreover, namespace virtual clocks simplify the setup process for sync groups, requiring only one virtual clock for the entire namespace, regardless of the number of pods in it.
Managing Time Machine for Containers within Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift clusters is effortless, facilitated by the Floating License Server, Sync Server, and Enterprise Management Console on a single management box. The Sync Server can broadcast a unified virtual clock to multiple Time Machine for Containers across various namespaces, extending its reach beyond Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift environments. The Enterprise Management Console offers intuitive GUI access for monitoring and managing virtual clocks for Time Machine® for Containers, Sync Server, and Floating License Server. Additionally, customers can provision these components pre-installed from AWS or Azure Marketplace.
About Time Machine
Time Machine saves ten-fold or more on resources and costs associated with temporal testing of applications. It enables you to finish your large scale software projects on time and under budget. Some other usage scenarios of Time Machine include Cloud migration, time zone adjustment, data aging, Big Data analysis and online training. Time Machine is the original date and time simulation software for Unix and Windows since 1997 and it is Cloud ready. Thousands of customers worldwide utilize Time Machine successfully across all industries on a daily basis; including 47 of the Fortune 100 companies.
About Solution-Soft
Solution-Soft is the leader in virtual clock, time shift testing software solutions for the ever changing digital world. Our flagship and market proven product, Time Machine, opened up brand new possibilities in the application testing landscape upon its release in 1997. Today, thousands of applications have been tested with Time Machine, and IT professionals recognize that using a virtual clock is the ideal and safest way to conduct date and time testing. As pioneer in our field, we've created the Time Machine Product Suite, a collection of cutting-edge testing software that augment Time Machine to further streamline enterprise cloud initiatives and IT simplification. The product suite offers a complete solution for end-to-end application testing, cloud migration, test automation, Agile/DevOPs, Continuous Operation, and Test Data Management. We proudly provide our 2000+ domestic and international customers, including 47 of Fortune 100 companies, our advanced solutions to optimize their testing and help deliver projects on-time. Solution-Soft's customers are across all market sectors including 3M, AMEX, Australia Tax Office, BBC, Boeing, British Gas, Covered California, Discover, Fed Ex, Federal Reserve Bank, French Telecom, National Australia Bank, and Zurich Insurance. We bolster our market presence through robust partnerships with companies including Accenture, Capgemini, Citrix, Delphix, DXC, FICO, HPE, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Red Hat and SAP.
Founded in 1993, Solution-Soft is privately held and based in Santa Clara, CA, for more information visit www.solution-soft.com or call +1.408.346.1400.
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