A Deployment Platform is a Platform that provides the technical capabilities required to receive, host, configure, operate, and manage deployed software, Machine Images, services, or infrastructure components.
A Deployment Platform can provide capabilities for:
A Deployment Platform identifies a technology or platform category. It does not identify a specific configured destination.
A Deployment Target identifies a specific destination that uses a Deployment Platform. Multiple Deployment Targets can use the same Deployment Platform.
Examples include:
A Deployment Platform can operate within a:
The connectivity classification describes the operating conditions of a Deployment Target or Target Environment. It does not define the Deployment Platform itself.
A Deployment Platform forms part of a Target Environment. The Target Environment identifies the broader destination and operating context, including its organizational, operational, security, compliance, connectivity, and resource boundaries.
A Deployment Platform can host one or more Execution Environments. An Execution Environment provides the runtime conditions in which deployed software or services execute.
Within the Crucible architecture:
platform that provides the technical capabilities required to receive, host, configure, operate, and manage deployed software, Machine Images, services, or infrastructure components
Generalized from software deployment, platform engineering, infrastructure automation, virtualization, container orchestration, and cloud-computing usage and specialized for the Crucible architecture and operational model.
A Deployment Platform identifies a platform type or technology. A Deployment Target identifies a specific configured destination that uses the Deployment Platform.
For example:
A Deployment Platform can itself operate on another Deployment Platform.
For example, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform can operate on:
In this case, OpenShift provides the container platform, while the underlying platform provides the compute, storage, and networking infrastructure.
The Deployment Platform does not identify:
Those characteristics belong to the Deployment Target, Target Environment, or Infrastructure Environment.
VMware vSphere acts as a Deployment Platform.
A Deployment Target based on VMware vSphere identifies:
Crucible uses a Provider Implementation to translate a Deployment Description into the platform-specific operations required to create an Infrastructure Environment on that Deployment Target.
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