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Curious, was just thinking about this the other day. What does Gravitational offer in the way of special sauce that can't be achieved just be working with Dock

by pm 11y ago

Curious, was just thinking about this the other day. What does Gravitational offer in the way of special sauce that can't be achieved just be working with Docker/Kubernetes directly? What cost to the developer? How are you taking on customers at the moment? Just asking because I was in the planning stages for something and this was the first step to what I wanted to achieve. I don't know if it's worth learning Docker/Kubernetes or signing up for something like this before I've coded anything.

old-gregg 11y ago
Sure, Docker and Kubernetes are fine tools for deploying and orchestrating an application into an environment you have full control over (typical SaaS scenario). Our "distribution" of Kubernetes is optimized for running in "hostile" unknown environments with varied networks, storage, etc. It comes in HA-configuration with self-updating and self-monitoring turned on. Secondly, once you have thousands of instances deployed across the globe, we give you unified and secure remote access to do ops in a scalable way. The true cost of going on-prem is not deployment (it's not that hard, you're right: Kubernetes does most of the heavy lifting). The true cost of going multi-region/on-prem is operations. And, of course, the security complications that come with it. Our OpsCenter tackles this problem: it gives you access to thousands of absolutely identical instances of your app, while staying compliant with on-site security policies. Give us a call, we'll have a solution engineer spend some time with your team and we'll do all of the integration work. The end result: you have the same codebase which runs in your own 5 AWS regions, plus 5000 on-prem locations, and you don't need to: a) fork your codebase b) hire a ton of ops engineers
- pm 11y ago
  I am the team I am afraid, and only at the planning stage so there is no code to speak of as yet. I'm in Australia so it might be better to send an e-mail and see what can be done. Thanks for the info.

by pm 11y ago

old-gregg 11y ago

Sure, Docker and Kubernetes are fine tools for deploying and orchestrating an application into an environment you have full control over (typical SaaS scenario). Our "distribution" of Kubernetes is optimized for running in "hostile" unknown environments with varied networks, storage, etc. It comes in HA-configuration with self-updating and self-monitoring turned on. Secondly, once you have thousands of instances deployed across the globe, we give you unified and secure remote access to do ops in a scalable way. The true cost of going on-prem is not deployment (it's not that hard, you're right: Kubernetes does most of the heavy lifting). The true cost of going multi-region/on-prem is operations. And, of course, the security complications that come with it. Our OpsCenter tackles this problem: it gives you access to thousands of absolutely identical instances of your app, while staying compliant with on-site security policies. Give us a call, we'll have a solution engineer spend some time with your team and we'll do all of the integration work. The end result: you have the same codebase which runs in your own 5 AWS regions, plus 5000 on-prem locations, and you don't need to: a) fork your codebase b) hire a ton of ops engineers

pm 11y ago
I am the team I am afraid, and only at the planning stage so there is no code to speak of as yet. I'm in Australia so it might be better to send an e-mail and see what can be done. Thanks for the info.