Platform engineer

Let's explore Backstage, the problems it attempts to solve, and considerations to make before bringing it into your organization.

Over the last week, the team at OpsLevel completed its largest HackDay ever. OpsLevelers demoed 15 different projects, spanning everything from our infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines to our Applicant Tracking System and assets for acquiring and onboarding customers. Even our CEO carved out time to write some code–though he admitted his UI was lacking.

Today, Kubernetes is the de facto standard for container orchestration, running in approximately half of all containerized environments. Platform and infrastructure teams of all shapes and sizes are accustomed to operating Kubernetes in order to run their organizations’ microservices (and applications) at any scale.

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.

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.