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On-premise/Cloud Kubernetes cluster

2025-02-27

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Come gestire il deployment distribuito di microservizi su più ambienti on-prem e cloud

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Presenters

�Pietro Calcagno – DevOps and System Engineer

�Maurizio Pichierri– Head of Digital Enablement

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Agenda

  • Hitachi Rail 360 Suite
  • Technological Stack & Environments
  • Operational Challenges
  • Hybrid Deployment
  • Demo
  • Q&A

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Hitachi’s new suite of smart mobility solutions for cities, transport operators and passengers.

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Smart Ticketing

360Motion platform to connect, scale, analyze and optimize multiple services:

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Enable more seamless, sustainable journeys for passengers by �creating a digital twin of entire transportation networks.

Powerful tool that connect data, allows decision support and optimize Operations

Flow Management

Integrated

Energy Management

Real-time analytics platform

Public Transport Key Targets

Hitachi Rail – 360 Suite

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360 Pass

Points of differentiation

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  • Multitenancy 🡪 Easy to deploy, Reduced costs, Efficient resource usage 

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  • Digital from the ground 🡪 Easy to configure (business logic, manage products, fare calculation,). Ready for business model SaaS

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  • Infrastructure Agnostics 🡪 Interoperable with other solutions like  ’360Motion’ and ‘Digital Asset Management Platform’

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  • Mobile first 🡪 An innovative travel experience through Bluetooth/mobile phone sensor technology to enable “hands-free” travel without the need to purchase tickets

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360 Motion

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Technological Stack & Environments

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Versioning and source control system compliant with Cenelec 50128 (Cloud / On-Prem)

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DevOps Development

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Cybersecurity toolset Cloud and On-Prem

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Container Registries Cloud and On-Prem

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Cluster K8S or K3S for cloud or on-prem solutions

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Automatic Deployment

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Logging and Monitoring

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Backup & Disaster Recovery

Environments designed and customized to host different products for Turnkey or Standalone projects both On-Prem and Cloud offering the same development, deployment, cybersecurity and maintainability features

On-Prem

Cloud

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Operational Challenges

Cloud Environment

On-Prem Lab Environment

Turin

Naples

Cold Backup & Recovery

Developers

Repo Infrastructure

K8s cluster

Hitachi Automatic

Sync Tool

Cloud & On-Prem environments

Many small projects and environments to manage at the same time

Environments for testers, developers, system integration

Environments to be kept online for a long time

Air-gapped

Cloud cost saving

DevOps Development

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Hybrid Deployment (cloud & on-premise) 

  • VMs creation & configuration:  

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  • Monitoring:

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  • Access management:

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  • Registries synch

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Bash script

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cron job

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vs

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Hitachi Automatic Sync Tool – Functional description

Azure DevOps

microservice X

(CI repo)

CI pipeline microservice X

New image

Azure Portal

Container registry

New helm chart

On premise

Container registry

K3s-deployment-onprem-HR

(CD repo)

Updates

K3s-deployment-onprem-HR

Checks the env needs

Apply changes on env

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Q&A

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