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.
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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
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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