otomi-core VS helm-charts

An example of a self-hosted Kubernetes-based PaaS is Otomi. Install Otomi on your Kubernetes cluster, compose your platform (by activating the required capabilities) and build, deploy and expose apps in just a couple of minutes. Heroku, but Kubernetes native and running on your own cluster.

This video shows some of the new features of Otomi version 0.19.0 that will be released in Week 11 2023. Follow us on GitHub and be the first to try it out: https://github.com/redkubes/otomi-core

Otomi

Kubernetes is 'only' a multi-node cluster kernel. Some call it the Linux of the cloud.

And because K8s is only a kernel, there are now over 2000+ (open source) projects, all adding some extra functionality to it. Be it for observability, security, or networking. But all of these projects don't really collaborate and end-users don't ask for maturity of individual projects, they want sets/stacks of projects that integrate well.

Now every company has created some Stack with applications and configurations for Kubernetes, all trying to reinvent the wheel and spending an often shocking $ in doing so.

So here is my take:

- Let's create a new category in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) landscape and call it Integrated Stacks for K8s

- To be accepted, a stack needs to provide an open integration framework for other projects to add/integrate their apps

- Just like aLinux distro, each stack is ideal for some specific use case(s)

- A stack can be installed in one run, contains integrated apps that work out-of-the-box, has a (web) UI that acts as a desktop environment to provide easy and secure access to all features. Call it a new user experience for Kubernetes

Wouldn't it be great to have a list of all Kubernetes stacks available that everyone can use (and contribute to)? Just like (in the Linux analogy) you can choose between Linux Mint, Fedora, or Ubuntu.

We already created the first: https://github.com/redkubes/otomi-core

Examples: Netlify has an entire Integrations Engineering team. Currently it just works on Next.js integrations, but it could also own, for example, the VS Code extension. In the past I helped build out Netlify Dev and react-netlify-identity as part of this function. Popular quick start tooling like Docker Compose and Helm Charts also fall under this function.

Even though the migration was prototyped with a self hosted cluster of Temporal (using our Kubernetes helm chart), they decided to sign up for Temporal Cloud as an early design partner. As a small startup, they didn't want to manage Temporal themselves. "We migrated progressively using feature flags, and verified performance as we went, but we had confidence in the Temporal team so we didn't stress about load testing."