Added Apcera as deployment option

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deployment/apcera.md

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+---
+layout: default
+deployDoc: true
+---
+
+## Socks Shop on Apcera
+
+These instructions will help you deploy and run the Socks Shop application on the [Apcera Platform](https://www.apcera.com/platform), an enterprise-grade container management platform for cloud-native and legacy applications.  Apcera is secure by default, only permitting things explicitly authorized by policy, and supports multi-cloud deployments.
+
+Apcera has tested Socks Shop on the Apcera Community Edition running single-cloud clusters in Amazon AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, and VMware.  We have also tested Socks Shop on the Apcera Enterprise Edition running a multi-cloud cluster that spanned across AWS, GCP, and VMware.
+
+### Packaging
+
+The Socks Shop application is packaged and configured for Apcera using a [Multi-Resource Manifest file](https://docs.apcera.com/jobs/multi-resource-manifests/) called socksshop-docker.json which is similar to a Docker Compose file. Scripts are provided to make it easy to deploy all the services and a network from the manifest, to start and stop the services, and to delete everything that was deployed.
+
+### Pre-requisites
+
+- Set up your preferred private or public cloud environment, preferably AWS, Google, Azure, or VMware.
+- Install [Apcera Community Edition (CE)](https://docs.apcera.com/setup/apcera-setup/) in your cloud or use the Apcera Enterprise Edition (EE) if you own it.
+- Download the Apcera command line tool [APC](https://docs.apcera.com/quickstart/installing-apc/) from the Apcera [Web Console](https://docs.apcera.com/quickstart/using_console/) and install it.
+
+```
+git clone https://github.com/microservices-demo/microservices-demo
+cd microservices-demo/deploy/apcera
+```
+- *(Optional)* If you are not an admin user in your Apcera cluster, you might need an Apcera administrator to import a [policy](https://docs.apcera.com/policy/introduction/) file to give you permission to create the Socks Shop services and network in your sandbox.
+
+```
+apc import policy socksShop.pol
+```
+
+### Networking and Security
+
+In this demo scenario, we create a single [virtual network](https://docs.apcera.com/jobs/virtual-networks/) to which all the services except *zipkin* and *user-sim* are added. Services inside the virtual network can all talk to each other. Apcera [job links](https://docs.apcera.com/jobs/job-links/) are used to let the *user-sim* load testing service send requests to the *front-end* service and to let the main Socks Shop services send traces to the *zipkin* service. Using job links in this fashion simulates how real, cloud-based load testing and APM solutions can be integrated into applications running on Apcera without sacrificing security.
+
+### Deployment
+
+All of the Socks Shop services and the network are deployed to Apcera with a single script. However, you first need to target your cluster and login to it with APC. After that, just run the deploySocksShop.sh script.
+
+<!-- deploy-doc require-env APCERA_CLUSTER APCERA_USER APCERA_PASSWORD -->
+<!-- deploy-doc-hidden pre-install
+apc target $APCERA_CLUSTER
+printf "$APCERA_USER\n$APCERA_PASSWORD\n" | apc login --basic
+-->
+```
+apc target <your_cluster>
+apc login
+```
+<!-- deploy-doc-start create-infrastructure -->
+
+    ./deploySocksShop.sh
+
+<!-- deploy-doc-end -->
+
+After determining your targeted cluster and default namespace, this script does the following:
+
+- It sets your current namespace to \<your_default_namespace\>/socksshop.
+- It runs the "apc manifest deploy" command against the socksshop-docker.json manifest to create the services and the socksshop-network virtual network.
+- It creates [job affinity tags](https://docs.apcera.com/jobs/job-affinity/) to make sure that each service that uses a database is deployed to the same Apcera instance manager as the database.
+- It then runs the startSocksShop.sh script to start all of the Socks Shop services.
+
+Altogether, the script should take under two minutes to run.
+
+### Using
+
+- You can access the Socks Shop front-end service in a browser with the URL:
+  - http://front-end.\<your_cluster\>
+- Note that the *edge-router* service is not used since Apcera provides its own router.
+- You can view logs for the services in the Apcera Web Console or by using the "apc app logs" command.
+
+### Testing
+
+A load testing service, *user-sim*, is provided in the socksshop-docker.json manifest file. It will run when the manifest is deployed after a delay of 60 seconds. This is a load test provided to simulate user traffic to the application. You can view the results of the test in the *user-sim* log.
+
+### Tracing
+[Zipkin](http://zipkin.io/) has been written into some of the services. While the system is up you can view the traces at http://zipkin.\<your_cluster\>. Currently *orders* provides the most comprehensive traces.
+
+### Starting and Stopping
+
+You can use the startSocksShop.sh and stopSocksShop.sh scripts to start and stop all the services.
+
+### Cleaning up
+
+Run the deleteSocksShop.sh script to delete the Socks Shop services and network.
+
+<!-- deploy-doc-start destroy-infrastructure -->
+
+    ./deleteSocksShop.sh
+
+<!-- deploy-doc-end -->