Platform engineer

More software, more problems? Software is eating the world and that means more people and teams are developing software. To stay current and competitive, modern organizations are scaling their software engineering teams.

Our software ecosystems grow more complex every year. With new frameworks, dependencies, and technologies to help automate or simplify every step of the development life cycle, keeping track of requirements that provide reliability and security can become difficult. And that’s why production readiness reviews and checklists help eliminate cognitive load. They let you focus more on features or potential failure points.

Years ago, end-to-end software development involved dividing tasks based on where they fell in the system life cycle. One team wrote the code. Then another team deployed it to production. And yet another team monitored and maintained the service. This led to a lot of friction, needless handoffs, and bottlenecks.

Engineering initiatives are a necessity when it comes to ensuring security, reliability, and keeping the lights on within an organization. These can include actions such as upgrading library versions, migrating everyone to a new metrics provider, or upgrading a framework.

A microservice catalog is only as good as the data it contains. OpsLevel is making it easier than ever to keep your service list up-to-date with its new Service Suggestions feature. With Service Suggestions, we automatically discover new services when they get deployed and help you add them to OpsLevel. For services that are already in OpsLevel, we can also help you easily attach those deployment streams to the right service.

Don’t you hate remembering all of your passwords? With OpsLevel’s Single Sign-On integration all of your microservice data is seconds away without the need for another long and secure password.

OpsLevel is a fantastic source of truth for all of the information around the microservices in your architecture, including all the tools you use to operate each of your microservices. But it’s not always the easiest to find and discover this information when you really need it - say during a major incident, or during a gameday.

So, OpsLevel is cool and all, but you know what’s not cool? Clicking around in a UI whenever you want to change some of the properties of a service. Well click no longer! Now, with our Git Repository Integration, all you need to do is to plunk down an opslevel.yml file at the root of one of your repositories and OpsLevel will use that to populate the corresponding service on OpsLevel’s side. (If the repository isn’t already mapped to a service, OpsLevel will create a new one.)

With our Git Repository integration, OpsLevel can continuously scan your code repositories and verify all of the operational best practices you’ve defined. Previously, we’ve shown you a Repo File Check, which can be used to verify that a given file exists in your repo, or verify that it contains some specific text.