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How it works

To deploy your code on a cloud account, LocalOps takes an environment-based approach.

After you connect your cloud account, you must create a new App environment for each of your deployment environments - test, staging, production, etc.,

LocalOps will then provision the following set of exclusive cloud resources in the target cloud account to bring the environment up and deploy your services inside.

  • Virtual private cloud (VPC)
  • Private subnets
  • Public subnets
  • Managed Kubernetes cluster (E.g., EKS in AWS)
  • Mananged Compute servers and volumes (E.g., EC2 in AWS)
  • Companion kubernetes deployments to support
    • Monitoring
    • Backups
  • 👉 Your code run as "Services"
  • Auto-renewing SSL certificate for the unique domain

We collectively refer to the above set as “App Environment”.

LocalOps provisions app environments using standard in-house provisioning templates and scripts such that you can create any number of app environments on any cloud account (AWS, Google Cloud or Azure) and any region.

Kubernetes cluster​

All your code is run as docker containers within the kubernetes cluster. Kubernets cluster is created, configured and managed by LocalOps.

Services​

You must create a "Service" for each component of your application - backend, frontend, worker etc., to run your code within the kubernetes cluster. You can configure a specific github repo and branch name for each service so that any commit pushed to the branch will automatically get pulled by LocalOps and built & deployed on the Kubernetes cluster.

Deployments​

Deployments can be triggered either by pushing your code to the connected github/gitlab repository. Or by manually triggering them from inside LocalOps dashboard.

Monitoring​

To debug issues, LocalOps provisions industry standard open source observability suite including Loki, Prometheus and Grafana inside each environment. LocalOps provisions, configures these tools and connects them with each other, so that your team can view Logs and Metrics in a single grafana dashboard, without any configuration. This suite is exclusively provisioned for each app environment and runs inside the Kubernetes cluster, right next to your services.

Cloud Credentials​

LocalOps needs to have access to your cloud account, to programmatically create all cloud resources required to get the app environment running. You can connect your cloud account via keyless, role-based access method from Connections section.

Exclusive Infrastructure​

Each app environment get its own exclusive set of kubernetes cluster, compute servers and other resources listed above. This is ideal for providing maximum Network, Data & Compute isolation between your deployments & customers.

note

All cloud infrastructure to run an app environment is provisioned in the cloud account chosen while creating the app environment inside LocalOps. The underlying cloud account will be billed by the cloud provider (say AWS) for the resources running within each app environment. Cloud account's owner has to pay for these charges separately with the cloud provider. If the cloud account belongs to your customer, they would pay for these cloud resources.

Security Best Practices:​

Within each app environment, LocalOps turns ON all security best practices suggested by the respective cloud provider. In AWS for example, security groups, disk encryption etc., are all enabled by default.