Introducing LocalOps: Step up your Private Cloud Deliveries

SaaS (Software as a Service) builders find it increasingly difficult to signup customers in regulated industries such as Financial services, Healthcare, Education, Telecommunication, Energy etc.,.

Customers in such industries across USA, Europe and other parts of the globe, cannot signup for SaaS as freely as others because they can't share their data as freely as others. They are regulated by their governments to protect and safeguard data in unique/stronger terms. Applications have to get deployed and run within their cloud and within their control, to comply by regulations.

To deploy and manage applications in such customer controlled cloud environments, developers and devOps teams have to write infrastructure provisioning scripts, package their applications in some portable format (say Docker images or Kubernetes Helm Charts), get access to the target cloud account and deploy Or email instructions to the end customer and co-ordinate until installation is done.

There are a ton of challenges here with this kind of approach.

• This process is heavily error prone, manual and slow. Dev/DevOps typically email instructions to the end customers IT team multiple times to get the installation done. This is even for trial / POC scenarios.
• Each such cloud environment is different. So developers have to put unique effort in the building & delivery process every time anyway, resulting in slow updates to such customers.
• Developers, while using modern managed cloud services in their central SaaS cloud environment such AWS S3, SQS, SNS, for example, cannot often use the same technologies in the customer environment, even if the target cloud is AWS. They need tooling to declare such dependencies and deploy them consistently well. They end up re-architecting/re-thinking alternate tools/technologies while doing such deliveries. Repeatedly across every unique environment that they face.
• There is no central visibility and control (similar to developer controlled central SaaS environment), over versions running in such private cloud environments. Fire and forget is typically the situation here, after the first installation is done.
  • This results in outdated versions running in customer environments leading to missed security updates and hence eventually security breaches!

Wouldn't it be great if there is a tool to be able to connect to any cloud account, deploy the same SaaS application, monitor, update/send-fixes, scale and manage them all from a single place?

What if developers don't have to worry about uniqueness behind each cloud environment and treat them all same to build/ship faster? Across their US production (SaaS), Customer 1 (Private cloud), EU production, Customer 2 (On-prem), AUS production, Customer 3, Staging, Testing, etc.,

This is exactly what LocalOps enables for SaaS builders and their Developers & DevOps teams.

Developers/DevOps can signup for LocalOps, register their application (pre-packaged as Helm Chart), connect any cloud account (AWS, today), provision an App Environment with a few clicks in the target cloud account and deploy the app. All within 30 mins.

Each app environment is powered by a Virtual Private Network (VPC in AWS) and a kubernetes cluster to run/orchestrate the application/Helm chart.

All App Environments come with all the following on day 1:

1. Deploy: Developers can make releases and apply them anytime any number of times to keep all app environments in latest version.
2. Monitor: Prometheus and Grafana are enabled for each environment in their own URL, to let developers monitor logs and metrics for the environment remotely.
3. Self healing: Apps restart automatically on crashes.
4. Custom servers and scaling: Pick any server type and server count supported by the cloud provider, based on application requirements - CPU intensive, memory intensive, GPU intensive (Hello, AI folks! 👋).
5. Custom domains: Developers get to configure custom domains and ssl cert.
6. Cloud dependencies support: Developers can declare AWS cloud dependencies such as S3, RDS, SQS etc., to spin up for/inside each app environment.
7. Data encryption turned on for all resources:
   1. At transit: With Custom domain and auto-renewing SSL cert.
   2. At rest: With all data volumes encrypted by default.
8. Multi-AZ: Servers in the app environment are provisioned in multiple availability zones (physically separate data centers) for high redundancy and availability.
9. Backups and Disaster recovery: Backups can be taken manually before major application upgrades or scheduled for a daily routine.
10. ..and more.

No one needs to code a thing using IaC (Infrastructure as code) or with other tooling to get all these app environments and any number of these UP on Day 1.

These app environments let developers

• treat all cloud environments in any regions with any custom configuration as homogenous/identical app environments
• avoid architecture revamps to change application code for each specific customer
• deploy applications & updates faster and smoother on customer/your cloud account
• overall provide a premium delivery experience to the end customers!

LocalOps enables SaaS builders to deliver to regulated industries, increases their TAM to target and sell to such data sensitive customers across USA, Europe & across the globe and enable more revenue.

All while letting Developers/DevOps teams solve delivery inconsistencies & be happy while shipping the latest and greatest functionalities FASTER/BETTER to everyone across private cloud deliveries, on-prem deliveries and SaaS environments!

Get started now for free:

LocalOps is now Generally Available.

Get started for free by signing up here. Go ahead and play around with our default Python/Django application and our default/sandbox cloud account. We give 100 hours free on sandbox environments every month, even after the free trial.

Reach out to us at either my personal email address [email protected] or book a 30-min demo if you are interested to learn how LocalOps can help your specific cloud deployment requirements.