Resiliency considerations when deploying in IBM Cloud Private
Review the following resiliency considerations before deploying the WebSphere Commerce application in IBM Cloud Private.
IBM Cloud Private is a container platform based on Kubernetes, which uses pods as the basic building blocks. A pod is the smallest unit that we can deploy in the Kubernetes object model. A pod encapsulates an application container, or in some cases, multiple containers, such as WebSphere Commerce Search, Store, and Transaction servers, as well as storage resources, unique network IPs, and any other tools used to manage runtime containers. For more information about pods, see Kubernetes-Pod Overview.
Kubernetes also uses ReplicaSets, which can be used to ensure that any number of pod replicas are running at any specific time. Pods managed by ReplicaSets are automatically rescheduled when a failure occurs. These failures include node or network issues. ReplicaSets replace the Replication Controller as the pod manager. For production environments deployed in ICP, use the pod and ReplicaSets platform-level capabilities to guarantee resiliency and availability during the deployment.
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