What is the importance of nanobox?

Nanobox is a software that helps developers in deploying servers and concentrate solely on the code. It is possibly the simplest and the easiest way to deploy docker and provide a consistent environment locally and in any supported cloud. Nanobox software provides assistance in avoiding difficulties in apps structuring and loss of time that comes with building, managing and scaling applications.

Developers often spend hours on establishing local dev environments, building and configuring production servers, setting up monitors for those servers and scaling them, Nanobox organizes everything!

The most common problem that the developers come across is maintaining environment consistency of the applications. But how does nanobox simplify this issue? the answer lies here. The software frames a virtual environment on a local machine that ships with your production environment and enables active application development. The nanobox run command, uses Docker to create isolated containers inside a local virtual Nanobox container using settings specified in your file. It then mounts your code directory from your local machine into the Nanobox container. Any changes to your code are reflected in your locally running app.

Once the code is tested and ready for production, you can use Nanobox to deploy your app to your production servers. Production servers are provisioned and configured identically to your local environment.

The Nanobox provides n number of features some of which are stated below:

Mesh-Load Balancing: Load balancing is the best approach to increase network throughout and to minimize congestion. Load balancing is helpful in improving scalability and availability of network.

Health Monitor: A health monitor tracks server and container health (RAM, CPU etc.)

Logger: The logger in nanobox captures and stores logs from your app's components.

Message Bus: The message bus is a tool that pushes data such as resource usage metrics and logs to the Nanobox dashboard/API for live updates.

Warehouse: The warehouse is a storage mechanism that comprises of files and data required for apps. It includes code build ups and data backups.

Scaling: Scaling in nanobox is the process of simplifying the application's infrastructure using multiple means, each triggered through your nanobox dashboard. Scaling should be done when you notice hampered application functioning.

Nanobox uses two types of scaling methods:

• Vertical scaling: Vertical scaling is very useful for services with heavy processing loads like the database, cache, web pages and workers. Scaling vertically integrates more space into the RAM, CPU and DISK providing more capacity to accomplish their specific task.
• Horizontal scaling: Horizontal scaling is achieved by increasing the number of nodes inside a component cluster. With scaling, the code components ability to handle concurrent requests can be multiplied along with the addition of redundancy and fail-over to both code and data components.

Nanobox is certainly the new way of coding!

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