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Onboarding

Stakater provisions the Stakater App Agility Platform (SAAP) and takes first application to production in less than four weeks on the cloud of your choice!

Customer Data Collected

This is a complete list of the customer data and permissions needed for getting started with SAAP:

  • Stakater asks customer if they want logging enabled - logging is optional
  • Stakater needs to know which cloud provider the customer is using
  • Stakater asks the customer what Identity Provider is used for the cloud provider
  • Stakater asks the customer to create a user in their cloud provider and download the credentials
  • Stakater asks if the customer has any preference for their cluster name
  • Stakater needs permissions to git repo access to set up pipelines - pipeline setup is optional

Week 1 - Provisioning - Free

  • Provision SAAP on the cloud of your choice
    • Stakater can arrange exclusive offers with cloud providers
  • Configure access to systems
  • On-boarding session and knowledge sharing
  • Configure SSO

Week 2-4 - Application Migration - Time and Material - Optional

  • Select the first application or group of applications that work together
    • Setup infrastructure and application GitOps repositories for deploying application and dependent configurations
    • Setup tenant operator configuration and decide on the number of environments if required
    • Divide applications into microservices and containerize them
    • Deploy the application onto the cluster using Kubernetes Resources. List out secret required, dependent services, databases, storage requirements and implement them accordingly.
    • Deploy Kubernetes Resources using Stakater Developed Helm Chart on the environment chosen - prod, stage, test, dev - in the application GitOps configuration
    • Implement CI pipeline for the application if required. Deploy Tekton CI pipeline using the Stakater Tekton Chart
    • Implement monitoring, logging, validation/testing frameworks or any additional tools for the application
    • Validate
  • Educate team on key concepts

Next steps

  • Reach out to Stakater for migrating next application, or
  • Self-serviced migration of next application

Customer Responsibilities

  • Provide timely access to necessary people, systems, and information from relevant departments and teams
  • Thorough engagement from management and teams

Stakater Team

  • Dedicated team
    • Project management: 20-40%
    • Solution architect: 50%
    • AppDev consultant: 100%

Output

  • First application live as container with cloud native CI/CD workflow
  • Up-skilled team with key concepts of cloud native containerized workflow

Customer Data Processing

This is a complete list of how customer data is processed in SAAP:

  • Logs and events for Kubernetes resources are stored in ElasticSearch which is deployed in the customer's cluster
  • Customer's cluster is deployed in the account of the customer's cloud provider
  • Logs are retained for 7 days unless the customer requests otherwise
  • In case customer wants to forward events to a data store they can do that optionally
  • Infrastructure alerts are sent to Stakater Slack for incident management
  • Application alerts are sent to ElasticSearch and can optionally be sent to Stakater Slack if requested

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