Cycloid today at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe conference revealed it has added an ability to create and manage multiple versions of reusable stacks of software that platform engineering teams make available via the company’s internal developer platform (IDP).
Additionally, Cycloid has added an Adoption Dashboard that makes it simpler to visualize which software components are running within a version of a specific stack.
Olivier de Turckheim, a solutions architect for Cycloid, said the Stack Versioning capability added to the service catalog embedded in the company’s namesake IDP gives platform engineering teams more granular control over how stacks of software are provisioned using Terraform infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools.
The overall goal is to provide platform engineering teams with more flexibility as they strive to centrally manage multiple versions of different stacks of software that the IDP enables application developers to download as needed, noted de Turckheim. Those teams will also be able to more easily create sandbox IT environments based on an existing stack that includes, for example, a testing module, he added…
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