An Intellyx Brain Candy Brief
ShuttleOps is a startup emerging from a long stealth runway of enterprise service engagements, with a solution that standardizes much of the application packaging and production CI/CD pipeline into a drag-and-drop, push-button execution exercise.
The ‘no-code’ claim may seem hard to believe in today’s complex development tooling, configuration management and hybrid IT application deployment environments. Even when ‘automating all the things’ is the best practice for agile delivery, each automation script or IaC artifact also carries with it lots of moving parts to coordinate, and an annuity of code maintenance overhead.
ShuttleOps has managed to abstract a majority of the handoff between Dev and Ops teams into a rather simple flowchart-like interface. Now, the underlying code never really went away, but the company encapsulated a host of connectors and its own coded application and infrastructure configs under the covers, such as Chef Habitat, Vault secrets and Docker images, which are parameterized as steps in the workflow. Results are reported out to orchestration and management tools of choice.
Of course, an understanding of how these steps work within the organization’s ‘as-is’ software delivery, and authorization across needed tools may be required for initial modeling of an ideal ‘to-be’ pipeline anyone can launch. Still, seeing is believing.
Once components and code assets are moving from repositories and builds to deployment images into on-prem, containerized and cloud environments, every succeeding DevOps team can start to benefit from no-code deployment efficiency and the ability to focus on application development or production resiliency going forward.
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