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brycethornton | 5 years ago

It's always nice to see how other teams do it. Nothing too groundbreaking here but that's a good thing.

I did notice the screenshot of "Checkpoint", their deployment tracking UI. Are there solid open source or SaaS tools doing something similar? I've seen various companies build similar tools but most deployment processes are consistent enough to have a 3rd-party tool that was useful for most teams.

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thinkingkong|5 years ago

I've built that tool 2-3 times now. The issue is really the deploy function and what controls it. It's always a one-off, or so tightly integrated into the hosting environment, that reaching in with a SaaS product is somewhat difficult. That being said, the new lowest-common-denominator standards like K8s make it way easier. If anyone is interested in using a tool just leave a comment and I'll reach out.

sciurus|5 years ago

Please provide a way for people to reach you without commenting here.

lolftw|5 years ago

Interested!

rutigs|5 years ago

Interested!

piroux|5 years ago

Interested

kronin|5 years ago

Interested

oxygen0211|5 years ago

Interested, especially in K8s based

IBCNU|5 years ago

interested

broth|5 years ago

interested

bsima|5 years ago

interested

kvz|5 years ago

Interested

mrdonbrown|5 years ago

Sleuth is a SaaS deployment tracker that pulls deployments from source repositories, feature flags, and other sources, in addition to pushes via curl. You can see Sleuth used to, well, track Sleuth at https://app.sleuth.io/sleuth

[Disclaimer: am a Sleuth co-founder]

lukax|5 years ago

I can also recommend Sleuth. We use it at our company and the integration is very good. Their team is constantly working on new features, integrations and better UI.

Hi Don :)

ivanfon|5 years ago

Is it possible to view the page you linked without creating an account? It redirects me to your landing page.

paxys|5 years ago

> most deployment processes are consistent enough

Definitely disagree with this. I have never worked at two places with a similar enough deploy process that would benefit from a generic tool.

brycethornton|5 years ago

Sure, I see your point. I'd just like to see a pattern that works for most that could gain some traction. At the end of the day we're all trying to do the same thing (deploy high quality software), just in different ways. Deployment strategy shouldn't need to be a main competency of most teams.

bob1029|5 years ago

I've never seen anything that could even remotely give us what we wanted. We ultimately decided to roll our own devops management platform in-house which was 100% focused on our specific needs. We are now on generation 4 of this system. We just rewrote our principal devops management interface using Blazor w/ Bootstrap4. The capabilities of the management system relative to each environment are fairly absolute - Build/Deploy/Tracing/Configuration/Reporting/etc. is all baked in. We can go from merging a PR in GitHub to a client system being updated with a fresh build of master in exactly 5 button clicks with our new system.

The central service behind the UI is a pure .NET Core solution which is responsible for executing the actual builds. The entire process is self-contained within the codebase itself. Very powerful the contract enforcement you get when the application you are building and tracking is part of the same type system as the application building and tracking it.

codenesium|5 years ago

I'm curious what a Jenkins + Octopus system is missing that your system provides. Most companies would have a hard time justifying the expense to build a bespoke system just for devops.

jjeaff|5 years ago

Gitlabs pipelines and issues/merges UI is similar and open source.

taleodor|5 years ago

This is part of what we're doing with Reliza Hub - https://relizahub.com (note, we're in a very early stage).

Apart from tracking deployments, we're really focused on tracking bills of materials and communication between Business and Tech teams.

Jestar342|5 years ago

I don't know if this will tick all of the boxes you need because it is primarily IAC, and is for k8s only afaik: https://www.pulumi.com