Gravitational (YC S15): Software On-Prem or in Cloud from Single Code Base
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#2I'm the CEO of Gravitational, AMA about transitioning from single-cloud SaaS model to launching an Enterprise on-prem version, or going multi-region/international.
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#3I'm the CEO of Gravitational, AMA about transitioning from single-cloud SaaS model to launching an Enterprise on-prem version, or going multi-region/international.
How does Gravitational package software for on-prem deployment? Does the customer need to work with Docker directly, or do they get a VM image?
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#4I'm the CEO of Gravitational, AMA about transitioning from single-cloud SaaS model to launching an Enterprise on-prem version, or going multi-region/international.
How does Gravitational package software for on-prem deployment? Does the customer need to work with Docker directly, or do they get a VM image?
We help the vendor make their application compatible with containers (Docker or others) and Kubernetes[0] which is an important underlying technology behind the platform.
Re: Gravitational (YC S15): Software On-Prem or in Cloud from Single Code Base
#5A few reasons why we started working on this for some additional context:
1) We think developers have had to take on too much responsibility for operating the software they build (DevOps). We hope to create more clearly defined roles for developers and operators through better tooling for operators.
2) A lot of the engineering challenges with SaaS comes from multi-tenancy, which is one of the reasons Dev and Ops have merged into one role.
3) A big reason to use cloud software is that you (as a user) don't have to operate it but that has been conflated with the requirement that you need to give up control of your data.
4) Adoption of containers (Docker[0], Rkt[1]) and container orchestration (Mesos[2], Kubernetes[3]) technology have created the opportunity to rethink the traditional model for delivering and operating software.
[1]: https://github.com/coreos/rkt
Edit: added some examples of container and orchestration tech with links
Re: Gravitational (YC S15): Software On-Prem or in Cloud from Single Code Base
#6I'm the CEO of Gravitational, AMA about transitioning from single-cloud SaaS model to launching an Enterprise on-prem version, or going multi-region/international.
How much does it cost? (I don't see any pricing information on your website)
Is the business model taking over the management of on site SaaS applications?
If so, what's the difference between this and outsourcing maintenance (i.e devops) of your application to a third party?
Re: Gravitational (YC S15): Software On-Prem or in Cloud from Single Code Base
#7I'm the CEO of Gravitational, AMA about transitioning from single-cloud SaaS model to launching an Enterprise on-prem version, or going multi-region/international.
How do you get a common API for storage and user management between the two models? Any docs?
Re: Gravitational (YC S15): Software On-Prem or in Cloud from Single Code Base
#8I'm the CEO of Gravitational, AMA about transitioning from single-cloud SaaS model to launching an Enterprise on-prem version, or going multi-region/international.
How do you get a common API for storage and user management between the two models? Any docs?
Take a look at Kubernetes Volumes [1], this is what we use to abstract away storage. There's nothing special to do on your end, we'll port your application to use volumes during onboarding.
Re: Gravitational (YC S15): Software On-Prem or in Cloud from Single Code Base
#9I'm the CEO of Gravitational, AMA about transitioning from single-cloud SaaS model to launching an Enterprise on-prem version, or going multi-region/international.
How much does it cost? (I don't see any pricing information on your website) Is the business model taking over the management of on site SaaS applications? If so, what's the difference between this and outsourcing maintenance (i.e devops) of your application to a third party?
We don't have standard pricing, yet. Right now, it is priced on a case-by-case basis after discussing requirements with the customer.
Our objective is to enable operators (whether the operators are at the software vendor or at third parties) to maintain applications across many environments, effectively.
Once the application is ported, operations becomes much more efficient and increases the odds of success if a third party is operating it.
Re: Gravitational (YC S15): Software On-Prem or in Cloud from Single Code Base
#10I'm the CEO of Gravitational, AMA about transitioning from single-cloud SaaS model to launching an Enterprise on-prem version, or going multi-region/international.
How much does it cost? (I don't see any pricing information on your website) Is the business model taking over the management of on site SaaS applications? If so, what's the difference between this and outsourcing maintenance (i.e devops) of your application to a third party?
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