A Novel Approach to Software Development in the MicroserviceEnvironment of vf‐OS
Luís Manteigas Da Cunha, Ludo Stellingwerff, Andries Stam · 2018
Virtual factory Open Operating System (vf-OS) offers a manufacturing-oriented cloud platform, supporting a multi-sided market ecosystem that provides a range of services for the connected factory of the future, allowing manufacturing companies to develop and integrate better manufacturing and logistics processes. Due to the highly distributed microservices architecture used in vf-OS, such an environment poses some challenges for the software development process which will produce the assets. This chapter describes the approach taken to handle these challenges and describes how this can be evaluated over the lifetime of the project. The approach consists of “Docker”-based microservices, orchestrated through common REST services. The vf-OS assets will have a standardized structure and packaging format. The assets will be storable in the vf-OS Marketplace and can be bought and deployed into the execution environment, provided by the Platform.