Imagine this: you’re looking to scale your infrastructure to match your rapid business growth. Infrastructure-as-code is an excellent way of modernizing infrastructure. You know that the longer you wait to make the move to IaC, the deeper your business will sink into the quicksand of human error and, eventually, slower deployment. However, industrializing your manually-deployed infra is a daunting and resource-extensive task.
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Enabling developer self-service in Kubernetes
Platform engineering is taking the IT world by storm. We’re seeing articles claiming that platform engineering is finally going to end the DevOps reign and achieve everything DevOps never could – agility, automation, developer experience, efficiency and governance. The path to IT transformation and business growth that the new trend paints through self-service seems so painfully obvious, but let us tell you a little secret – it is not new. The trend might be a fresh marketing buzzword, but forward-thinking companies have already been utilizing the benefits of a platform engineering approach. Today’s platform teams are tasked with exactly this: building and maintaining an internal developer platform that connects the end-user to infrastructure management through simple developer self-service and improves efficiency and developer experience.
This idea has been working in practice for a while — and we should know, since improving operational efficiency through a developer platform with self-service is Cycloid’s core offer. We’ve recently used platform engineering to help our client Alchemy scale their automation and move infrastructure to Kubernetes on AWS.
Here’s what we did step by step:
Step 1: Take an Opinionated Approach to the Development Environment
Alchemy is a digital asset management company that helps organizations to implement the open solution for managing digital content using Phraseanet, and starting now with the brand new Phrasea, a promising DAM/MAM on AWS. They have a small team of developers that were able to service their clients needs – but as the company grew, they needed a way to scale up effortlessly.
Why are MSPs embracing internal developer platforms?
“Adapt or become irrelevant!” is the motto of digital and IT transformation.
Just as IT organizations are under enormous pressure to remain afloat in a tough economy, traditional MSP/SI and IT consultancies also face shrinking margins. While they still hold the higher ground in terms the latest technical expertise, improved security, and cost optimization, the demands of the industry are even higher – and IT consultancies now have to compete with the major cloud providers that have vastly extended and matured their offerings.
Seasoned service providers are opting out for a better solution and partnering up with platforms that can handle the growing demands for DevOps, automation and cloud management – often called internal developer platform or IDP. A platform that supports remote access and collaboration, strong security, multi-cloud monitoring and management and automation is instrumental in IT operations today – and would be an invaluable resource for service providers.
Orange Cloud for Business, a subsidiary of Orange Business Services that manages applications, middleware, and operating systems for third parties, has already chosen improved governance, team collaboration and enhanced customer visibility with Cycloid, the DevOps and hybrid cloud platform. They report 4x faster operations, improved customer service and reduced human error – and this is just the tip of the iceberg.
Time is of the essence. Here’s why partnering with an internal developer platform is crucial to an IT consultancy business strategy – both for the clients and internal processes.
Hear from our solution architect:
Attract new customers
There is a gross overabundance of tools and solutions on the market – an average developer uses up to 28 tools daily. There’s certainly a need to simplify and streamline. That’s why a comprehensive developer platform that acts as a cornerstone to multi-and hybrid cloud monitoring, automation, and team collaboration can be the make-or-break element in an IT company’s success.
Any MSP/SI that has such a solution in its portfolio will look like an attractive candidate. Take a look at Cycloid’s self-service portal, automation, and built-in FinOps modules – can you imagine your customers’ eyes lighting up with excitement? We can because we’ve seen it.
CTO of Hotel Spider, Yannick Blondeau, talks DevOps business value
We sent our latest ebook, DevOps Business Value: Prove it or Lose it to Yannick Blondeau, CTO of Hotel Spider and longtime friend of Cycloid. We were really interested in what Yannick had to say, as he’s a man that finds himself in a pretty special situation. At the start of this year, he has promoted from tech lead to CTO of the hotel online distribution platform, giving him a unique perspective on both sides of the tech/c-level divide.
The Croix-Rouge Française tackles planning in the time of coronavirus
Today, we want to show you how Cycloid is currently being used in a situation that is pretty unusual, both for our customer and for us. Coronavirus has had an impact on almost every business imaginable, but the consequences for organizations that need to plan in advance around events that rely on mass public participation have been huge. The organization that we’re looking at today found itself in precisely this situation and immediately got to work trying to find a workaround. The process makes for some pretty interesting reading, so let’s take a look.
