Operators

Users who are in charge of the operational concerns around deploying and managing the Brigade server and any auxiliary systems are known as Operators.

In constrast to the other roles of Administrator and Project Developer, which primarily deal exclusively with Brigade itself, this role requires knowledge of systems required by Brigade in order to run and function properly, including:

Must-knows

Knowledge of these foundational technologies are required to deploy and manage Brigade.

• Kubernetes: The substrate that hosts Brigade and serves as its runtime environment
• Helm: The tool with which Brigade is packaged, configured and deployed

Nice-to-haves

These are technologies that Brigade uses under the hood. While detailed knowledge shouldn’t be required for day-to-day operations, familiarity with these systems may prove useful.

• MongoDB: Brigade uses Mongo for its data storage layer
• ActiveMQ Artemis: Messaging queue used by Brigade

Next, let’s look at how to deploy Brigade.