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MaestroDev taps Compute Engine to provide cost-effective task management for DevOps environments
Monday, March 24, 2014
Today’s post comes from Brett Porter, CTO of MaestroDev, a DevOps Automation service for enterprise-class companies.
MaestroDev
helps software teams automate every task in a software delivery cycle, so that agile and continuous integration teams can ship higher-quality code faster. Every step of the software development process -- build, test, release, and deploy -- can be managed with a few drags and clicks. Our customers have already chosen their favorite tools; MaestroDev makes those tools work harder.
To say performance and high availability are important to us is an understatement. We cater to software development teams which are often distributed around the world, so we really have no choice but to perform and scale consistently and to provide 24/7 availability. To achieve this level of performance in a cost-effective manner, last quarter we began moving all of our servers to
Google Compute Engine
.
Immediately, we experienced significant time savings. Compute Engine helps us quickly deploy large clusters of virtual machines, and then scale up or down quickly. With Compute Engine, it takes about a minute to stand up a complete development environment. For example, one of our customers, the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO), recently moved from a fixed amount of hardware hosted in a datacenter to our SaaS offering on Compute Engine. They immediately realized more build capacity, reduced risk from machine failures, and 80% cost reduction.
A key benefit of Compute Engine is that it allows us to provide a cost-effective product to our customers. Compute Engine charges in granular increments called
Sub-Hour Billing
, which means we’re able to offer our customers a unique, consumption-based pricing model that is ideal for today’s software development teams. Other orchestration tools charge a license fee and a per-agent fee, effectively pricing out SMBs and small teams at large companies, and artificially limiting throughput performance of development teams, often when they need processing power the most. Our consumption pricing allows granular cost increments, so that users can start small, pay as they go, and scale up gracefully -- only paying for the service as they actually use it. We wouldn’t have been able to offer this subscription plan without the flexibility of Compute Engine.
Google’s partnership with
RightScale
was the icing on the cake. RightScale is a leader in enterprise multi-cloud management, and our products are deeply integrated. Together we can automate the deployment of products into RightScale environments, and RightScripts can dynamically scale new dev/test environments as needed. Google’s partnership with RightScale means our customers can simply point existing Rightscale templates to Compute Engine, without wasting time manually re-configuring instances.
We’re a fairly lean organization here at MaestroDev, so the performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness of Compute Engine enable us to tackle problems for enterprise-level software development teams around the world.
-Contributed by Brett Porter, CTO, MaestroDev
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