Open source model-based system simplifies IT journey to NoOps for native cloud environments
Dynatrace, a world reference in software intelligence, announces the release of Keptn, an open source, pluggable control system that will simplify the industry's advancement towards the use of Autonomous Cloud environments. Keptn provides the orchestration of the processes and tools needed to deliver continuous computing, with the operational automation demanded by native Cloud environments.
To combat the growing gap between constrained IT resources and keep pace with the advancement and increasing complexity of Cloud applications, automation and Artificial Intelligence (AI) have become critical weapons for IT organizations to maintain control over their systems. In contrast, the result is that understanding how to get started and how to map a successful path to adopting NoOps operations has been a barrier for many companies in today's environment.
"Keptn is the result of a program we've been working on for years," says John Van Siclen, CEO of Dynatrace. “In talking to decision makers in the technology areas of our corporate customers, it became clear that advanced levels of automation and intelligence are needed to bridge the growing gap between limited IT resources and the exponential increase in the scale and complexity of applications in Clouds, especially from the growing volume of workloads now being deployed already in fully native Cloud model environments and tools. Keptn provides answers to this challenge and we are excited to bring it to market as an open source project.” .
Making Keptn available to the community in an open source model allows the entire industry to simplify and accelerate the inevitable move towards migration towards Autonomous Cloud operations, starting with continuous delivery and automated operations as the first stages of the process.
“At Dynatrace, we learned that the journey to NoOps starts with transforming and analyzing how development and operations think, operate and align. The deployment of an unbreakable software delivery pipeline, from conception to volume production, has allowed us to scale from 2 to 25 major releases per year," says Alois Reitbauer, Chief Strategist at Dynatrace's Innovation Lab.
Dynatrace has been working over the past 18 months together with its clients to advance their standalone Cloud operations. After dozens of workshops and presentations with customers and partners, it was clear that a simple pluggable control plan that automates the continuous delivery pipeline and links development to production would be essential to accelerating the journey to NoOps for all. In this context, Keptn provides:
– A simple, declarative way to specify multiple continuous delivery pipelines for hundreds of microservices, and automatically generate the entire flow underlying them. A multi-stage pipeline can be set up in minutes.
– Easy-to-maintain automation approach, enabling customers to automate operational tasks, and understand how to react to failures and processes based on performance and business feedback, automating remediation for production issues. Keptn's control system separates real processes and integrations from tools, orchestrating processes at runtime, which increases manageability and adaptability.
– High level of transparency, following a GitOps model, with distributed transaction tracking capabilities already built into Keptn. This allows for the merging of individual actions into traces and provides a deep level of visibility into automation tasks.
Keptn is also being leveraged by Dynatrace's recently announced Autonomous Cloud Activation (ACE) practice, which will help customers further accelerate the move from DevOps to the Autonomous Cloud by delivering best practices and delivering expert services . Additional functionality for Keptn is being created by Dynatrace, as well as a growing number of customers, partners and technology companies. The current version of Keptn is available today at www.keptn.sh.
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