Commerce Post Deployment Steps
After you have successfully created Elastic Path Commerce environments using CloudOps for Kubernetes, you also must implement some other functionality to get a fully functional implementation. The following list of tasks is included in a typical implementation, which is not implemented as a part of CloudOps for Kubernetes. You must complete these tasks before your Elastic Path Commerce environment is ready for testing and development cycles:
- Tagging and update strategy for Docker images to fill out the continuous integration pipeline
- Configure an SMTP or email solution
- Configure the Data Import Export tool to synchronize data from external systems
- Set up and configure the Data Sync tool to sync data from Author to Live environments
- Configure Monitoring and alerts for Production environments
Production Cut Over Considerations
To prepare for a production cut over of CloudOps for Kubernetes, ensure that you review the following list:
- Improve and control security at the Kubernetes cluster level by tightening Kubernetes Ingress rules
- Update scaling policies for your Kubernetes clusters
- Perform load testing prior to any production launch
- Ensure that high availability and disaster recovery plans and solutions are in place for all production systems