Cycloid today extended its platform for managing and governing software engineering workflows to provide DevOps teams with more granular control over how stacks of software components are constructed and managed.
Company founder Benjamin Brial said a Components capability now makes it possible to configure individual components using its Stack Form infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tool. That more modular approach will enable DevOps and platform engineering teams to more easily mix and match components on their own versus being dependent on stacks of components pre-defined by Cycloid that are hosted within its internal developer portal (IDP).
While most organizations don’t want to build and maintain their own DevOps platform, they do want to be able to customize and extend those platforms as they best see fit in a way that decouples stacks from specific projects, said Brial. The Components capability enables that middle ground to be achieved and maintained using a Git repository, he said.
Instead, a single project can now contain multiple, distinct components, each linked to a specific environment and stack of software. That’s critical in an era where most applications are increasingly made up of reusable microservices that organizations are mixing and matching using their existing GitOps workflows as needed, noted Brial.
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