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Empowering our users with more tools at their disposal...

Our customer’s missions are growing in complexity each day, and we continuously evaluate and add new tools to our platform to meet those customer’s needs.

Empowering our users with more tools at their disposal...

We are pleased to share that we've added the following tools to SmoothGlue's baseline:

Nexus Repository Manager
An alternative to GitLab to serve as a code repository.
Nexus IQ Server
An application vulnerability analysis tool to secure your software supply chain.
Vault
A solution to securing secrets, certificates, API keys, and tokens on the platform.
Metrics Server
Offers platform operators the ability to collect metrics from the platform.
Kiali
Enables platform users to visually interact with the Service Mesh provided by Istio.
Tempo
Allows platform operators to search for traces, generate metrics from spans, and link their tracing data with logs and metrics.

Expanding Crossplane Providers

Increasing our utilization of Crossplane Providers reduces the reliance on manual configurations or custom configuration-as-code to enable key capabilities, such as single sign-on (SSO) integration with Keycloak.

Additional Security and Compliance Support

To deepen and widen our security and compliance support, we’ve implemented and configured IAM Roles for Service Accounts for Velero (EKS distributions of Kubernetes only). This also allows applications to run with a restricted set of permissions to cloud services.

An Unparalleled Developer Experience

We believe the Developer Experience extends beyond CI/CD pipelines and have made significant improvements to the end-to-end process. We’ve introduced the following features and enhancements to ease not only the building but the deployment of code, as well:

  • Implemented automatic SSO connectivity, using Crossplane, with Keycloak and platform services. This is extensible to developer apps using the same patterns of configuration.
  • Built a “compatibility mode” to allow our platform to function on high-classification environments with limited or restricted AWS Cloud Services.
  • Focused on increasing the self-service capability for platform administrators.
  • Created an Amazon Machine Image called “SmoothGlue Run Basic,” which enables developers to quickly spin up a single-instance node with the platform and start developing software the same day.

With SmoothGlue, we believe mission-critical enterprises will benefit from having the complete platform to build and ship quickly.

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