Time Machine for Containers

SANTA CLARA, CA. - Wednesday, June 26, 2020

The Challenge:

With the advent of container orchestration and micro containers for application development there has been paradigm shift, testing a date and time sensitive application logic has become a great challenge.

Container orchestration tends to be quite dynamic in nature and dozens or hundreds of containers may be working together to serve an application.  To time travel all the containers involved in the same date/time test, testing overall application logic is very hard to do.

The Solution: Time Machine and TM Product Suite

Time Machine provides a virtual software clock and is container aware so testers can set a virtual clock at container level without the need to involve system administrators to change the system clocks. Time Machine Sync Server enables testers to broadcast the same virtual clock to all the containers involved with just a couple of clicks or via URL API from test script for test automation.Time Machine Floating License Server provides a container license pool, which can be shared by all the containers automatically without the need to call support to get license keys, which isn’t practical for a dynamic environment or hundreds of containers.

Time Machine Bundle: Available in AWS Marketplace

A Time Machine container host with Sync Server and Floating License Server bundle is available in the AWS marketplace. Testers can provision any EC2 instance with the Time Machine bundle pre-installed. A Time Machine container image is also available and can be downloaded from the Docker Hub for immediate deployment.

About Time Machine:

Software Virtual Clocks for Time Travel Testing. Simulate past and future dates effortlessly with Time Machine®, enabling comprehensive testing of your date- and time-sensitive applications. Ideal for validating critical business processes like quarter-end and year-end processing, billing cycles, regulatory compliance (including Year 2038), and policy lifecycles during integration, upgrades, virtualization, cloud migration, and containerization. Eliminate the risks and downtime associated with system clock resets in complex environments like Active Directory and Kerberos.

About Solution-Soft:

The Leader in Virtual Clock and Time Travel Testing Solutions

Since 1997, Solution-Soft has been at the forefront of virtual clock software and time travel testing solutions, empowering organizations in the ever-evolving digital world. Our flagship product, Time Machine, has revolutionized application testing, enabling thousands of companies, including 47 of the Fortune 100 US companies, to reduce costs and accelerate project delivery by an average of 3 – 10 times across traditional systems and containerized applications.

The Time Machine Product Suite extends these capabilities, optimizing cloud migration, test automation, Agile/DevOps, and containerization testing. Our latest innovation, Time Machine for Containers, supports standalone Docker containers and large-scale Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters (including a 16,000+ CPU core, 1,300+ namespace deployments).

Trusted by over 2,000 customers worldwide across diverse industries (including 3M, AMEX, BBC, Boeing, and more) and partnered with industry leaders like Accenture, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, and Red Hat, Solution-Soft, founded in 1993 and headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, provides cutting-edge solutions for your time-sensitive testing needs. Learn more at www.solution-soft.com or call +1.408.346.1400.

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