Are you worried that you can’t adopt cloud-native technology without becoming completely reliant on one cloud provider? One way that organizations outsource management for Kubernetes is to use one of the cloud provider’s Kubernetes versions in conjunction with a variety of cloud provider native services. This is seemingly faster than using vanilla Kubernetes and engineering integrations and infrastructure in-house. The risk is that it can also tie the organizations into the cloud provider which could become very expensive.

This approach also takes away the flexibility to change cloud providers in the future while increasing the financial risks. With Otomi, you don’t have to lock yourself into any cloud provider or risk rapidly increasing cloud service bills in order to get the fastest possible platform to deploy containerized applications.

Free developers from worrying about the underlying platform setup while still enforcing standards and best practices so they can focus on delivering code. With Otomi, developers can be fully self-serving. They can spin up new namespaces, get access to all the tools they need, create secrets, deploy workloads, create jobs, configure public exposure, add service monitors, and much more. And all of these features are accessible through just one web UI.

Platform administrators have access to all the platform applications. Team administrators can create team spaces for development teams and team members can create multiple namespaces within their team space(s).

Choosing the DIY platform engineering approach can be time-consuming and complex. On average, Platform teams need at least 8-12 months to build a basic setup. The ongoing maintenance, hardening and innovations afterwards can become an operational hazard. Otomi helps Platform teams to reduce the operational overhead managing everything running on top of Kubernetes, including the lifecycle management of all the integrated K8s applications.

This enables platform teams to focus on another very important aspect: Kubernetes cluster infrastructure management, cloud security & developer experience. Now you have time to focus on other important aspects instead of building a custom (internal) developer platform solution.

As companies look to further harness the power of cloud-native, they are adopting container technologies at rapid speed, increasing the number of clusters and workloads. As the number of Kubernetes clusters grows, this is creating increased work for Platform teams. When it comes to patching security vulnerabilities or upgrading clusters, teams are taking on exponentially more work which will compromise the quality security and stability.

With Otomi you can support (soft) multi-tenancy, allowing multiple development teams to work independently of each other on the same cluster, while sharing all the tools. Now you only have to deploy a single dev or staging cluster to support multiple development teams. This prevents you from Kubernetes cluster sprawl.