Octopod
Self-service provisioning for Helm
A solution to simplify management of dynamic environments for your team
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As a DevOps engineer, you have probably been routinely bothered and asked to update, reconfigure or deploy a testing environment or a demo stand. Maybe you have even automated it with your CI of choice. Imagine you can go one step further and turn it into a self-service tool for the development team. All you need is a Helm chart.
Overwhelmed by provisioning requests
- Developers ask for preview environments.
- QA engineers ask for stagings for each feature.
- Project managers ask for a sprint demo stand.
- Sales team asks for demo stands for each pre-sale.
Even with automation you will probably reach your limit and will not be able to process all requests.
Octopod can take care of it
The DevOps team sets up and configures Octopod for your project. Afterwards, your project teams will be able to create and update work environments without needing to wait for the DevOps team.
Octopod is available to every team member. No technical skills required.
The recipe is simple:
Create a Kubernetes cluster
Create a Helm chart for your application
Install and configure Octopod
Onboard your team to Octopod
You're done!
Your teams can now administer their own isolated application replicas through a simple web interface.
Now that you have automated your processes, you can support the project with a star:
Users can fully manage deployment lifecycle
Let your team own the whole lifecycle of their deployments: not only creation, but updates, archive, restoration and cleanups. It’s a fully customizable, for example archiving can save persistent volumes and restore can hook them up again if they weren’t cleaned up.
First-class deployments
Any member of the development team can access, re-configure and update deployments making them easily manageable from a web-based UI.
Integrates well with your existing CI
Octo CLI allows you to manage your deployments from anywhere where you can call command-line tools. This includes all conventional CI systems.
Deployment health monitoring
We make it easier for your team to know which deployments are running, pending or broken by squashing bits and pieces of Kubernetes internals into easy-to-digest statuses. Never be bothered by your teams not knowing what’s happening with their deployments.
Effortless Helm support
You can deploy any Helm Chart as-is with a single push of button with no additional setup. Set it up once and empower your team without exposing them to Helm and Kubernetes.
Kubernetes dashboard integration
Quickly jump from a deployment in Octopod to a detailed Kubernetes Dashboard UI. Get better user reports.