We’re living in a more and more distributed world today. Instead of having individual, departmental projects running on some hardware below a random desk, today’s computer systems run at large scale, centralized or even distributed. The needs for monitoring and managing never changed but got far more complex over time. If you’d put all those cross functional features into a bucket it would most likely be called “Governance”. This can happen on many levels. People, processes and of course infrastructure components.
What is Overlord?
Overlord is a a set of sub-projects which deal with different aspects of system governance. All four sub-projects are so called “upstream” projects for
JBoss Fuse Service Works. But Service Works is even more, so let’s just focus on the four for now.
SRAMP
Overlord S-RAMP is a full-featured artifact repository comprised of a common data model, powerful query language, multiple rich interfaces, flexible integration, and useful tools. It aims to provide a full implementation of the OASIS S-RAMP specification.
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DTGov
This component provides the capability to manage the lifecycle of systems from inception through deployment through subsequent change management. A flexible workflow driven approach is used to enable organizations to customize governance to fit the way they work.
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Runtime Government (RTGov)
This component provides the infrastructure to capture service activity information and then correlate, analyse and finally present the information in a form that can be used by a business to police Business/Service Level Agreements, and optimize their business.
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API Management
If you want to centralize the governance of your APIs, this is the project for you! The API Management project provides a rich management layer used to configure the governance policies you want applied to your APIs. Once configured, the API Management runtime Policy Engine can run as part of a standard Gateway or embedded in any application.
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What’s going on lately?
Overlord just got a brand new website up and running.
Have a look at it and don’t forget to give feedback or work on it, as it is also open source you are free to fork it an send a pull request. Make sure to look at the contributor guidelines before.
| Reference: | Overlord – The One Place To Rule And Manage your APIs from our JCG partner Markus Eisele at the Enterprise Software Development with Java blog. |
