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Used to manage the K8s Clusters

• Simplifies K8s Management and security
• Free and OpenSource

Gitops deployments of services into the cluster

• part of Rancher
• Open Source
• Simple to use

Main IDE for the services

hosts developer docs for libraries developed in the lab

• Easy way to host sites such as developer documentation
• A few nice/professional templates can be found

• Brillant developer portal
• API is easy to work with

Event broker, services publish events onto the broker (events are stored in the streams/logs but can be processed by queues)

• Licence (mozilla at the time of this)
• Large community
• Queues and stream support (as of 3.9)
• Easy to setup
• Shovel support between AMQP 1.0 and 0.9 brokers
• Nice out of the box Admin UI
• Great performance

All services are written in dotnet (which emit events to one another)

• dotnet core (and .NET 5+)
• Great out of the box problems are solved (config, hosting, HTTP Apis, CLI tooling etc)
• Multiple OS support

Chosen as it works well with existing skills

Mainly used to store state for any services, using Marten.io to store JSON documents

• Multiple Clouds Support
• Easy to setup for local development
• Great support for JSON documents & Relational
• Large community
• Easy to use .NET libraries (Marten.io)