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Control Center is an open source application management and orchestration system. Control Center can not only manage the Zenoss platform but other Docker applications, from a simple web application to a multi-tiered stateful application stack.

Control Center Host Performance Monitoring

Control Center is based on a service oriented architecture which enables applications to run as a set of distributed services that can span hosts, datacenters, and geographic regions. A simple declarative application template file is used to describe how an application is configured, deployed, managed, and monitored.

Application Topology View - ELK Stack

Monitoring anything and everything is part of our DNA here at Zenoss, so we have built declarative monitoring support into Control Center. Applications can be automatically monitored and modeled upon provisioning.

Control Center key features:

Intuitive HTML5 user interface for application deployment and management
Application topology visualization - know where your apps are and how they are connected
Automated application discovery, configuration, deployment, and availability monitoring
Application multi-instance and distributed host support
Integrated backup/restore and incremental snapshot/rollback support
Simple to manage and deploy application templates for rapid application provisioning
Built-in application logging via Elasticsearch
Resource based Application service scheduler - schedule based on available resources across one or many hosts at runtime
Stateful application support which includes support for database services and other persistent services
Transparent SSL transport encryption across all application services/containers
REST based API for easy integration into other management tools

Get Started

The Control Center project aims to build a great community that builds software needed to deploy, manage, monitor, and scale enterprise applications. We rely on several open source projects:

Docker & Docker Registry for deploying and managing containers
OpenTSDB & HBase for storing/querying performance data
Elasticsearch & Logstash for domain data and logs
Zookeeper for cluster coordination
AngularJS, Bootstrap, and nvd3.js for UI
Linux kernel for NFS, Btrfs, and cgroups

Over time we hope that our project can incorporate some of the technology of other Docker-based orchestrators and vice/versa.

Discussions
Many of the developers of the control center can be found on on #zenoss on IRC. You can also raise issues on github or post questions to the Zenoss forums.

Report Issues
You can raise issues on Zenoss Control Center JIRA project. Zenoss uses JIRA internally to drive development, QA and customer issues.

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Check out the Code
Contributing to the project is easy. Fill out the Control Center CLA. A zenoss representative will send you an email after they’ve received your submission. When you open a pull request to one of the control center repos, your github handle will be validated against our CLA database.

Control Center Host Performance Monitoring

Application Topology View - ELK Stack

Control Center key features:

Intuitive HTML5 user interface for application deployment and management

Application topology visualization - know where your apps are and how they are connected

Automated application discovery, configuration, deployment, and availability monitoring

Application multi-instance and distributed host support

Integrated backup/restore and incremental snapshot/rollback support

Simple to manage and deploy application templates for rapid application provisioning

Built-in application logging via Elasticsearch

Resource based Application service scheduler - schedule based on available resources across one or many hosts at runtime

Stateful application support which includes support for database services and other persistent services

Transparent SSL transport encryption across all application services/containers

REST based API for easy integration into other management tools

Docker & Docker Registry for deploying and managing containers

OpenTSDB & HBase for storing/querying performance data

Elasticsearch & Logstash for domain data and logs

Zookeeper for cluster coordination

AngularJS, Bootstrap, and nvd3.js for UI

Linux kernel for NFS, Btrfs, and cgroups

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