Show HN: LocalOps – Deploy SaaS/AI apps privately
localops.co
Anand, here from LocalOps. I am very excited to show you LocalOps.
We have built a cloud deployment automation tool to make Private customer deployments / Single tenant deployments easy. Especially for the AI/Dev tools/Data tools startups.
Anyone can signup, connect their customer cloud account (AWS, GCP, Azure) & provision production infrastructure and make private/single tenant deployments with their containerised apps in just a few clicks. All without writing/running any custom IaC (TF, Pulumi) scripts or any devops effort.
We opened up free sign ups recently. Checkout https://localops.co
We would love to see you try the tool and share your feedback/comments. It will be super helpful for us.
Why?
We found businesses in regulated industries such as Financial services and Healthcare have a lot of restrictions while signing up for B2B SaaS services. They can’t share their data as freely as others, need data hosting in their own region, need single tenant deployments for more privacy & performance guarantees or need developers to maintain HIPAA, SOC2 and other compliances year on year on their SaaS environment.
We wanted to make it easier for tiny/small B2B SaaS companies to remotely deploy applications on specific cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) owned by these regulated businesses. And shift data security liability that way. Devs can go on to monitor and update such environments remotely from a single dashboard after first deployment.
Docker packages?
Alternatively, Devs could package their applications as Docker image and hand it off to customers IT team to self host, install and maintain. But I’ve heard from few CTOs that Day-1 ops are slow and Day-2 ops are super hard / in feasible in this way. Monitoring these deployments remotely, keeping them up-to-date and offering same managed experience as their public SaaS etc., lacks tools and automation.
Big developer teams build such tools in-house. We wanted to bring the same tooling to smaller developer teams to save them enormous time and effort.
How it works?
Each customer deployment is as Full Stack App environment (as in 12-factor app environment). They work/run the way same no matter which cloud they run on. This is the key part for easy long term maintenance. So someone’s staging, US-production, EU-production, Customer-1-AWS, Customer-2-Azure are the same for dev teams to send updates to.
Each app environment is powered by a cloud-provider managed kubernetes cluster underneath and install/run apps using helm charts. One can signup for LocalOps, provide credentials to a target cloud account & private Helm repo where their containerised app is hosted, and get a deployment done in about 18-20mins and get a SSL enabled URL for the specific app instance. Plus, we bundle each app environment with prometheus, grafana to monitor logs and metrics.
Anyone can signup now for free at https://console.localops.co/signup and try spinning up an app environment using a sample app we've kept inside.
In case you want to see it all without signing up, here is a demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9g6id2T3ag
I’m looking forward to read and learn more your comments.
Best.