Flexiant Concerto’s application blueprints make it quick and easy to design and configure a cloud-independent application template. All you have to do is:

• Pick a base OS image
• Pick Chef recipes
• Configure recipe attributes
• Add your own bootstrap scripts

It only takes a few clicks in Flexiant Concerto to implement everything you need to to turn your blueprint into actual infrastructure, in any cloud and any geography. This includes:

• Pick the cloud provider(s) you want your application to run on
• Specify the region and datacenter you want this to be hosted in
• Select the server size you want from your cloud provider’s catalogue
• Set up the firewall
• Define the SSH keys
• Automatically publish the DNS
• Instantiate a network load balancer
• Boot the server, ready to build your application on

During the bootstrap stage, Flexiant Concerto will automatically:

• Execute the Chef role for the server or server arrays, including the application download from a repo, installation and configuration
• Install 3rd party agents including New Relic for monitoring
• Execute the custom bootstrap scripts specified for the blueprint

Flexiant Concerto gives you what you need to monitor the performance of your applications across the various clouds you are running them on, totally independently from the cloud provider monitoring tools. This lets you analyse how the various clouds compare, making it easier to optimise your workloads.

Flexiant Concerto, integrated with New Relic, give you granular visibility over your application performance as well as infrastructure utilization. It does this by:

• Gathering and collating data from across your servers in any cloud
• Analysing collected data
• Scoring against Apdex, the industry standard for application performance measurement
• Reporting on these metrics, including graphical visualization

As you grow your business you will need to ensure that your application can cope with the increased demand and global spread. Flexiant Concerto was specifically designed to make scaling successfully as simple and effective as possible, with features such as:

• Load balancing as a service – our integrated network load balancer gives you a range of criteria by which to control traffic delivery, including round robin and least connections
• Autoscaling – scale your servers out and in depending on traffic levels, based on actual user experience of your application or any other metric tracked by New Relic
• DNS geo-localization – route traffic to the host node closest to the end user in order to minimise latency as much as possible and scale geographically