Delivering on a multi-cloud, Kubernetes based platform with one-click provisioning for customers.
TL;DR: Auth0 has replatformed our private cloud offering onto Kubernetes. This post details the architecture of the new platform and all the major infrastructure and networking components.
Auth0 is excited to relaunch our private cloud offering on our new platform. Recently, Auth0 has invested in retooling the private cloud platform to support more automation, adopt current technologies, and help scale the private cloud to thousands of environments. It’s been an enormous effort across many teams, and we’re excited to share an overview of the system in this post.
This post will serve as a technical primer for the new platform, and subsequent posts in the series will go in depth on specific features from a technical perspective. In future posts, we’ll cover the architecture in more depth, release orchestration, geo-failover, security principles, and the data pipeline of the new system.
You will hear directly from engineers who built the product and learn how Auth0 was able to deliver on a multi-cloud, Kubernetes-based platform with one-click provisioning for customers.
But first, a quick refresher on our private cloud deployments. Auth0 is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution that has two deployment models — a public and private cloud. The public cloud is a standard multi-tenant environment where resources are shared between customers and is available in the United States (US), Europe, Australia, and Japan. Private cloud deployments, on the other hand, are single-subscriber environments that provide customers with dedicated infrastructure and can be deployed in nearly any region across Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure.
So why choose a private cloud? There are a number of reasons. Private cloud deployments offer cloud and region choice, which can be important for compliance and data residency requirements. Private instances also offer greater performance guarantees above what we can offer for public cloud deployments in terms of throughput on a per-customer basis. Of course, there are the added benefits of having isolated infrastructure solely for your use case. Finally, since private clouds are single subscriber, we can take advantage of private linking back to your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), which keeps any extensibility-related functionality that originates from Auth0 off the public internet.
Ok! With that out of the way, we can start to introduce the components of the new platform.
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