kamrani

You're awesome man. Your response is honest and valuable. I don't know a single product everyone likes or thinks it's good or even it deserves the smallest attention.

Also this is not the product I'm working on, it's a biproduct of what I'm woking on which helps you go from code to a full fledged platform with lots of built-in integrations on your own cloud in a few minutes.

It's just something I thought many people spend a lot of money on (I've been paid for it ;) ) while it can be perfectly automated so I thought I make this service open-source and free for ever so some people don't necessarily pay for something they shouldn't and have more freedom switching the ci/cd tools.

Think of it as Jenkins Syntax tool or the way you build Azure DevOps pipelines. Thanks again for sharing your point of view.

Hi, I understand that you might be thinking I'm pretty comfortable doing what I'm doing, but there are few things that I'm not sure you've considered or not: 1) Are you comfortable editing your .gitlab-ci.yaml for the type of work you're doing or it's always the case? e.g. if you're a go developer, is it that easy for you to do the same for java? if your application is dockerized can you compose the file as fast if the application is supposed to run on ec2? what about a different cloud provider? 2) What if you decide to switch from Gitlab to TravicCI? 3) Do you consider your expertise with gitlab/bash/ci-cd above average, average or below average? 4) How exactly do you believe a tool that has generated at least the scaffold of your pipeline's file can make it more difficult for you to take the final step? Again, assume you want to create the file from scratch. 5) Regarding the frequency of the problem, I totally agree, we don't create or update our pipelines everyday, but almost every developer/team has to do that. I personally am very comfortable working with Gitlab, cause I've used it non-stop for two years, but when I want to use Github action, I have to read the documentation and it can take me couple of hours to figure out what to do.

hmm, not sure how these two are related. Can you please explain a bit more?

Not exactly. Tekton and Argo are really different from what I described, but regarding the second part, agree that it won't be as perfect as what you can compose the file yourself (at least at the beginning) but that's not the point.

As long as you don't hide the identity of the users, you won't have an honest platform. You want to see how people really think, give the anonymity and you see the true society, good or bad.

Exactly, you can just find what fits your use case. Plus you can easily switch from one tool to another one in a few minutes. I'll make it available soon.

Well the point is that you don't have to set up anything or use another open source tool. You don't need to run this platform in your own cloud, it just prepares your cloud for you. For example you want to run your dockerized applications, now instead of using Heroku which runs your workload on their platform, this one runs it on your own cloud account as if you had a DevOps guy do it for you.

While PaaS providers such as Heroku and Vercel take a lot of the burden off programmers, they are very expensive (sometimes up to 50 times compared to cloud providers) and not very flexible. Plus they provide a very narrow and limited service.

We're soon releasing the beta version of our platform that does the same on your own cloud(s), adds your own CI/CD, integrates easily with your git provider and has out of the box monitoring, logging, alerting, incident management, integration with jira and sentry and much more. Any thoughts? Do you think a flat rate payment with multiple tiers makes sense for this service?

Over the last couple of years we have built a system which helps users to address their main DevOps requirements. This includes building different environments and deploying the infrastructure corresponding to each environment in a few minutes while having metrics monitoring, issue tracking, error tracking, git integration and a lot more easily available. Basically you have one tool that gives you all of these in the same place while making it super simple to switch between different service providers or use them at the same time, whether it's the cloud provider or if it's the git or monitoring tool. At this stage we are looking or few users, ideally small startups who want to save their valuable time and of course money to set up their whole DevOps echo-system, or even individuals who are just curious about the latest changes in the DevOps sector. Please feel free to create an account or even better request for a demo. Hope this is the right place to share this.