DevOps is the backbone of modern software development, but it often comes with challenges like tool sprawl, infrastructure complexities, and constant deployment interruptions.
Enter Kapstan — a DevOps automation platform designed to transform how teams manage applications and infrastructure. Kapstan delivers the ease of a PaaS tool while deploying directly in your own cloud, eliminating vendor lock-in and giving you full control over your infrastructure.
With Kapstan, both application developers and DevOps teams can work more efficiently, delivering superior outcomes without being bogged down by manual processes, technical hurdles and context switches. Here’s how Kapstan reshapes the DevOps landscape:
For Application Developers
Kapstan provides a single pane of glass to manage, deploy, and observe applications, allowing developers to focus on creating exceptional software rather than grappling with underlying infrastructure, complex terraform and kubernetes manifest files.
Kapstan simplifies the application lifecycle with an intuitive UI for configuring and managing deployments, real-time observability through centralized logs and metrics, and streamlined workflows that consolidate tools for ease of use.
For DevOps Teams
Kapstan empowers DevOps teams by facilitating infrastructure-as-code (IaC) management and reusable templates, liberating them from repetitive deployment and configuration requests. Kapstan offers:
- Seamless Integration of Tools and Templates: Incorporate your own Terraform configurations for infrastructure management and Helm charts for Kubernetes application management. Define consistent, reusable templates to ensure standardization across teams.
- Focus on Strategic Initiatives: With reduced interruptions from deployment tasks, DevOps professionals can concentrate on scaling infrastructure and driving innovation.
Key Features of Kapstan
1. Simplified Application Management on Kubernetes
Kapstan's user-friendly interface not only simplifies application management but also allows you to define your applications declaratively, similar to Kubernetes YAML files, with a simplified abstraction layer. This high-level approach reduces human error and ensures consistent deployments across environments.
2. Environment Management and Consistency
Manage environments from development to production with ease. Kapstan's one-click clone feature allows rapid replication of environments, ensuring configurations tested in staging perform flawlessly in production.
3. Automated Rollouts and Rollbacks
Kapstan supports automated rollouts and rollbacks, allowing you to roll out new versions of your application with ease. If issues arise, Kapstan facilitates swift rollbacks to stable versions, minimizing downtime. Advanced deployment strategies like Blue-Green and Canary deployments are also supported.
Kapstan also supports continuous delivery (CD) via a GitHub Action, making it easier to integrate deployments into your CI/CD pipelines.
4. Kapstan CLI
Kapstan offers a powerful command-line interface (CLI) to streamline operations for advanced users. With the CLI, you can automate complex workflows, manage deployments, and query system statuses directly from your terminal.
5. Public Helm Chart Support
Kapstan supports public Helm charts, allowing teams to deploy and manage third-party applications alongside their own.
6. Deployment and Event History
Kapstan provides a detailed deployment and event history, enabling teams to trace changes, monitor outcomes, and troubleshoot issues effectively. This transparency ensures better control and decision-making during critical operations.
7. Cost Transparency
Gain detailed insights into cloud spending. Kapstan's cost transparency tools provide breakdowns to help teams manage budgets effectively.
8. Secure Secrets Management
Proper secret management reduces security risks, and maintains compliance by keeping sensitive information out of your codebase and version control systems
Kapstan simplifies and secures secrets management by centralizing the handling of sensitive data like API keys, tokens, and passwords. Secrets are securely stored in Kapstan's secret manager. You can also plugin your own secret store if you like.
Kapstan eliminates the need for manual intervention by automating secret rotation and ensuring they are securely injected into the right applications during deployment.
9. Out-of-the-Box Observability
Kapstan includes integrated observability. Logs, metrics, and application performance management (APM) is available without any additional configuration.
Alerts for deployment upgrades, failures, cron jobs, and Kubernetes health events keep teams informed in real-time.
10. Integrations with your existing tool chain
With one-click integrations for tools like Slack, GitHub, DockerHub, AWS, GCP, Azure, and Datadog, Kapstan fits naturally into your existing workflows.
Why Use Kapstan?
Reduces Operational Overhead
Kapstan automates repetitive tasks such as dependency management, rollouts, scaling, and monitoring. This allows teams to focus on strategic initiatives rather than operational minutiae.
Increases Developer Productivity
Kapstan enables developers to work efficiently without worrying about infrastructure. Its declarative approach and integrations with Kubernetes streamline deployment processes, letting developers focus on building features.
Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
Kapstan enforces fine-grained role-based access control (RBAC), enabling DevOps and platform engineers to define and manage templates for more precise control over IaC. Developers benefit from an intuitive interface and pre-configured templates for easy deployment. Test environments can have more lenient access policies, while production environments maintain stricter controls to ensure compliance and reliability.
Security and compliance
Kapstan ensures that all infrastructure deployed is compliant from day one by adhering to industry best practices and SOC2 requirements. Kapstan also takes care of applying the latest security patches to your infrastructure regularly, eliminating the need for manual intervention and reducing the risk of compliance issues.
Get Started Today
Kapstan makes DevOps automation accessible, efficient, and impactful for organizations of all sizes. Whether you're a startup or an enterprise, Kapstan can help you achieve your DevOps goals faster and with fewer obstacles.
Ready to simplify your workflows and supercharge your DevOps strategy? Visit Kapstan to learn more or explore the documentation for a deeper dive into its capabilities.
Transform your DevOps journey with Kapstan today!
