Platform Services

Description: A well defined set of services to develop, test, build, and deploy cloud–native applications. This prescriptive software/tool stack, or Platform Services, is typically comprised of several layers. The most common include:

• Configuration Management — Chef, Puppet, Ansible
• Container Runtime — e.g., Docker
• Container Cluster Orchestration — e.g., Kubernetes
• Cluster Management — e.g., Mesos
• Source Code Management — e.g., GitHub
• Continuous Software Integration & Delivery — e.g., Jenkins
• Application Lifecycle Management — e.g., JIRA, Confluence, Tempo Folio
• Middleware — messaging, API Mgt., etc.
• Database — RDBMS, Object, In–Memory, etc.

Benefits: One team mindset to build cloud native applications by leveraging:

• A group of services that abstracts application infrastructure, middleware, configuration details, and provides development teams with the ability to provision, develop, build, test, and stage and applications.
• Application deployment through on-demand tools, resources, automation, and hosted platform runtime containers.

How Hararei Can Help: Hararei can assist companies to map out their Platform strategy, and aid in execution either alongside existing teams or as a separate programme. We recognize that any transition is likely to be an extended effort, and can help manage that complexity.

Hararei can also design and implement a fully SaaS–managed OpenStack and Kubernetes offering. There is no manual deployment needed — the service instantly deploys, manages, upgrades, and monitors OpenStack and Kubernetes for you. This 100% cloud based service is ideal for building/enhancing your private cloud, while fully enabling and greatly simplifying public cloud exploitation too.