Kubernetes-powered PaaS focuses on devops [Video]

The creator of Kel, a devops-focused PaaS for Web applications has released an open source edition of its platform.

Kel is based on the container-cluster management system Kubernetes and was originally made to run Gondor, a managed host for Python and Django apps. Eldarion, the company behind Gondor, hopes Kel will appeal to developers who want a PaaS that’s built with workflow in mind, not just app deployment.

Workflow is king

According to James Tauber, co-founder and CEO of Eldarion, Kel’s big distinction from other PaaSes is its focus on how developers work across the lifecycle of an application: development, QA, testing, staging, and production.

Like Gondor before it, Kel assumes people who work on a project have various responsibilities and capabilities that must be kept separate, but also need to interoperate occasionally. Tauber cited the example of a developer pulling a production database into an instance to demonstrate a feature, so as to use live data in the demo.

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