Deployment tips and reference architectures

The Universal Broker allows you to run multiple connections of any type using a single container. Snyk recommends running in High Availability Mode (on by default), to run multiple replicas.

On Kubernetes systems, the Helm chart creates a stateful set with numerous members, automatically creating multiple replicas.

In other orchestrators, you must create multiple replicas explicitly in your deployment configuration.

Usage of resources varies based on a number of factors, making it difficult to model the actual use of resources (CPU and memory) for the container. Each deployment is limited to a maximum of 25 connections to avoid exhaustion of resources.

If you find you need more resource segregation or allocation that does not fit well into a single container setup, you can create a new deployment with its set of connections to split the load across numerous Broker clients and containers.

Note that moving connections from deployment A to deployment B is not supported.

Contact your Snyk account team or Snyk support if you need more assistance designing a Universal Broker architecture for your needs.