NetApp, a global provider of cloud-based, data-centric technologies, has unveiled Spot Ocean CD as a continuous delivery option for Kubernetes. Spot Ocean would be enhanced and complemented by Ocean CD, which optimizes cloud application delivery by automating deployment techniques across clusters and workloads. By connecting how applications are delivered with how they are operated in production, Spot Ocean and Ocean CD expand Kubernetes automation and optimization solutions to application delivery.
NetApp’s Ocean CD would ease the complexity and burdens on DevOps teams while fostering greater agility, reliability, and efficiency.
The delivery process of cloud-native applications often involves dozens of developer stakeholders and hundreds of deployments spread across many clusters. Complexity raises the possibility of frequent delivery failures, which would impede application innovation and reliability, frustrate application teams, and add to DevOps and operations workloads.
Ocean CD automates and streamlines the delivery process while giving Kubernetes deployment control that is very beneficial without sacrificing dependability, security, or efficiency. Ocean CD enables DevOps teams to establish and manage deployment strategies across several clusters and workloads while offering developers the ability to see and stop possible events in the early stages that might lead to inefficiencies and expensive failures. Using tested deployment techniques, teams may use Ocean CD to go from a straightforward software release process to a phased deployment strategy.
Ocean CD also employs progressive releases, ongoing real-time verification, automated rollback, and granular visibility for service owners to reduce possible problems brought on by software changes. Organizations can optimize and expand the way they deploy and run cloud-native applications by using Ocean CD together with Spot Ocean and the other Spot by NetApp portfolio of products, which simplifies and enhances their application delivery and operations pipeline.
“Organizations rely on being able to deliver and evolve cloud applications quickly and reliably to support their business priorities, but too often find themselves hindered by complexity and inefficiency,” said Haiyan Song, Executive Vice President and General Manager, CloudOps at NetApp. “Spot Ocean CD expands our automation and optimization to application delivery, enabling DevOps teams to streamline, standardize, and automate the challenging Kubernetes software delivery process across any cloud and Kubernetes cluster so that teams can innovate and operate applications quickly, dependably, and effectively.”
Streamlining Complex Kubernetes Software Delivery
To sum up, NetApp Ocean CD would offer the following crucial functionalities to DevOps teams:- The ability to easily manage multiple services across clusters in one location with visibility into code rollout. This centralizes all deployment-related activities and views in one location and streamlines complex Kubernetes software delivery processes through automation and gradual software deployment. Additionally, it enables a general paradigm that would make it simple to manage or modify various deployment pipelines on a dynamic basis for all services across all clusters and cloud providers.
- Better control to confidently deploy software updates and rollouts into production based on transparent metrics and rules that locate and address deployments’ hidden failure areas without delaying releases. With the help of intelligent CD capabilities like traffic management, verification-driven processes, and managed failure policies for smarter rollbacks with better control, Ocean CD would detect and intercept deployments, enabling users to take full advantage of Kubernetes’ power and agility with minimal hassle.
- An enterprise-ready continuous delivery platform that can expand across hundreds of clusters and services, reduce bottlenecks and human labor, and deploy updates to applications more easily. SSO, granular rights control for developers, alerts, multi-cluster administration, manager dashboards, and regular upgrades in line with customer input are just a few of the enterprise-grade features and services offered by Ocean CD.
