An Intellyx Brain Candy Brief
The Manifold service marketplace is attempting to get ahead of a tidal wave of too many developer options when it comes to leveraging cloud services and APIs and delivering into a containerized, multi-cloud, multi-platform world.
It may seem like this is a done deal with billions of dollars and thousands of services already flowing through the AWS marketplace. Or the Google Cloud marketplace, or the Azure marketplace… but wait, what if you wanted to deploy an app with its collection of services in all three? Or perhaps into a Kubernetes cluster on Digital Ocean, or Terraform into a secure on-premises environment for the Europe office?
“We’ve found it’s becoming easier to build apps that can leverage so many services, but managing the composition of all your services is becoming harder,” says Matt Creager, co-founder of Manifold. “You want to prevent inconsistencies in deployment, without facing lock-in to any one vendor.”
Since most modern applications are built with composed services, if you really want to embrace the power of cloud-native development, containerization or microservices architectures, you should demand that apps and their retinue of service workloads are able to deploy and run consistently exactly where they are most suited — whether for performance, cost control, or compliance and security reasons.
To solve this Manifold offers a service marketplace that curates service provider offerings and platforms (configured collections of services). In one place, the development manager can explore, acquire and configure services, and monitor billing, unified credentials and deployments into the container, cloud or hybrid IT environments of choice.
Then invoke Manifold through github, or use their API, or just open a CLI and $ run manifold, run…
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