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How it all started for Kovair?
The origin of Kovair DevOps goes back over a year when we met Gartner Analyst in Si Valley regarding their thinking and analysis on DevOps products. What we learned from him is that there is no single product that he would describe as DevOps. He told us that there is a whole slew of products that combined in some manner to offer a DevOps Solution to the market. He then shared a chart with us that had a list of about 48 tools from open sources and multiple vendors!
This led Kovair to think of a unified product offering for DevOps that combines several of these tools through our Omnibus Integration Bus that we knew is well accepted in the industry. In addition, we knew we had to incorporate Jenkin’s capabilities of managing the pipeline and various other functions such as fetching the code, orchestrating the build, triggering automated testing and so on with full real time visibility. We also decided that it has to be a true full DevOps solution with tools coverage for Development end until code is ready and then doing the Operations functions for the Ops – all in proper sequence for a true Solution that majority of prospects would accept and will be a true DevOps product in the market!
Kovair DevOps – The total package
Kovair DevOps is not just a tool for any one component of DevOps like CP, CI, CD, CT & Continuous Deployment but is a holistic package which ensures a smooth and successful DevOps journey for an organization. Along with integration of 73 best of breed tools through Kovair Omnibus, Kovair DevOps also offer enterprise class mouse click configurable workflow for orchestration, central database for all the data and analytics, and collaborative platform for near real-time collaboration to make it what we call a “Single Click” operation.
The DevOps solution from Kovair not only delivers a set of tools but comes with the following components.
- Consultants with rich experience in DevOps helping you to plan and implement your DevOps journey
- Kovair Omnibus, a SOA architected ESB having 80+ integrations cutting across different vendors and technologies
- Kovair Central Repository, a web based product with a central storage supporting real-time collaboration, tool synchronization, different metrics for every team
Kovair as a team not only helps organizations to implement DevOps but at every stage ensures that different stages of DevOps maturity cycle are achieved as shown below through proper assessment at every stage.
Our consultants
Kovair has highly experienced consultants for DevOps. These consultants get engaged with client right from the beginning and work hand in hand with the organization in their DevOps implementation.
Services offered by our consultants include:
- Discuss with different team members of client for understanding their current process of delivery
- Draw a Pareto chart after identifying the most important and impacting areas of delivery
- Based on the chart, the working model of those important areas will be assessed in more detail to figure out the gaps
- Create and define a plan and workflow to achieve automation, collaboration and important metrics for measurement in those areas
- Recommend best of breed tools required at every phase for a successful implementation of DevOps
- Assessment of how best the existing tools can be used for DevOps
Our solution
Kovair DevOps solution comes with three major components as mentioned below:
- An SOA based Integration ESB having 70+ out of box integrations with different best of breed tools covering all different phases of application development, delivery and operations
- A central platform with workflow capabilities to orchestrate the entire DevOps process flow and data storage for achieving end to end traceability and generation of metrics
- Web based interface for easy mouse click configuration
- Open APIs of the integration platform for BI tools to pull data out of the central repository and generate advanced analytics
- Capability of integrating with in-house tools if any
Our integration suit
Current list of 70+ integrations supported by Kovair are given below.
Our services
Kovair DevOps package not only comes with consultation and tools but also has services in its offering. As a part of services, the following comes with Kovair DevOps package.
- Configuration and implementation of workflow, metrics and integration with different tools covering an agreed upon number of tools and use cases
- Training on Kovair tools and DevOps process flow being managed by the Kovair Platform
- Support for implementation of different best of breed tools including open source tools
Conclusion
Unlike other vendors, Kovair believes in and takes a 360 degree approach to DevOps implementation. Kovair becomes a part of the DevOps journey initiated by any organization and ensures a successful implementation of the same through consultancy, assessment, implementation and support at every stage and in every possible way.
