Chapter 5. Application architecture and workflow

This chapter covers

  • Building CoreOS into your application architecture
  • Understanding the twelve-factor methodology
  • Harmonizing development, persistence, and presentation

At this point, you should have a basic, practical understanding of how CoreOS functions. This chapter is intended as a primer for someone with a role like software or systems architect. The assumption is that you’ll be building a new application for, or migrating an existing application to, CoreOS. As such, this chapter is less about technical practice and more about the planning you need to do before any technical implementation.

5.1. Your application and the twelve-factor methodology

Suppose you’ve been tasked with drafting ...

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