Platform Independence is the characteristic of information, behavior, structure, requirements, or artifacts that do not depend on a particular implementation platform.
Platform Independence may apply to:
Platform Independent content expresses what a system, environment, or artifact must represent, provide, or satisfy without embedding details associated with a selected:
Platform Independence depends on separating Platform Independent Information from Platform Specific Information.
A platform-independent specification may require transformation, mapping, parameterization, or refinement before a Provider Implementation can realize it.
Platform Independence differs from platform neutrality:
A specification can be platform neutral while still containing platform-dependent constructs. Platform Independence requires the relevant content itself to remain free from those dependencies.
Platform Independence also differs from Cloud Portability:
Platform Independence can contribute to Cloud Portability, but does not by itself establish it.
characteristic of information, behavior, structure, requirements, or artifacts that do not depend on a particular implementation platform
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Platform Independence does not mean that an implementation can operate without an implementation platform.
A platform-independent artifact may still require:
The degree of Platform Independence depends on the abstraction boundary established by the applicable architecture.
An artifact may be independent of one platform category while depending on another. For example, an Infrastructure Blueprint may be independent of a particular cloud provider while depending on a container orchestration model.
The term does not require a particular modeling language, transformation method, deployment technology, provider, or tool.
An Infrastructure Blueprint specifies required compute capacity, persistent storage, network connectivity, identity services, logging, and monitoring without identifying a provider-specific machine type, storage class, network identifier, region, or service name. Separate Platform Specific Information maps that blueprint to each selected Provider Implementation.
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