Ankra: End to End Development platform

Why is Ankra needed?

The world’s first end-to-end cloud infrastructure Platform

”The need for standardized DevOps tools are hindering the adoption of DevOps”

Lets begin by asking ourselves exactly why it is that standardization is needed?

Developers are operating in an increasingly fragmented eco-system of tools.

It's good that there are tools solving a diverse range of challenges.

The backside of that comes at the behest of the developers cognitive load.

These solutions are great at achieving the purpose their designed for, if they're set up and configured correctly.

If the developers who configure them stick around.

If the knowledge capital exists to configure and maintain them.

If, if, if..

If only these solutions integrated with your infrastructure without the need of being encumbersome to the development team.

Why is it that installing software for end-users should be as easy as the tap of a button?

But integrating software for developers means that they have to code & script their way to the finish line?

With a serious risk of failure or being forced to take shortcuts.

Madness.

As a developer you shouldn’t have to learn all the tools and services in the world of infrastructure.

Rather, as a developer you should learn how to consume and integrate with the services which you need for your application.

The deployment, configuration, availability, and maintenance standards ought to be defined once and then easily available to use.

NIST Cloud Standards.

The national instutute of Technology has set some standards for what Cloud Computing means.

A user can unilaterally provision computing capabilities, such as server time and network storage, as needed automatically without requiring human interaction with each service provider.

Capabilities are available over the network and accessed through standard mechanisms that promote use by heterogeneous thin or thick client platforms (e.g., mobile phones, tablets, laptops, and workstations).

The provider’s computing resources are pooled to serve multiple consumers using a multi-tenant model, with different physical and virtual resources dynamically assigned and reassigned according to consumer demand. There is a sense of location independence in that the customer generally has no control or knowledge over the exact location of the provided resources but may be able to specify location at a higher level of abstraction (e.g., country, state, or datacenter). Examples of resources include storage, processing, memory, and network bandwidth.

Capabilities can be elastically provisioned and released, in some cases automatically, to scale rapidly outward and inward commensurate with demand. To the consumer, the capabilities available for provisioning often appear to be unlimited and can be appropriated in any quantity at any time.

Cloud systems automatically control and optimize resource use by leveraging a metering capability at some level of abstraction appropriate to the type of service (e.g., storage, processing, bandwidth, and active user accounts). Resource usage can be monitored, controlled, and reported, providing transparency for both the provider and consumer of the utilized service.

NIST Cloud Standards.

The national instutute of Technology has set some standards for what Cloud Computing means.

A user can unilaterally provision computing capabilities, such as server time and network storage, as needed automatically without requiring human interaction with each service provider.

The provider’s computing resources are pooled to serve multiple consumers using a multi-tenant model, with different physical and virtual resources dynamically assigned and reassigned according to consumer demand. There is a sense of location independence in that the user generally has no control or knowledge over the exact location of the provided resources but may be able to specify location at a higher level of abstraction (e.g., country, state, or datacenter). Examples of resources include storage, processing, memory, and network bandwidth.

Capabilities can be elastically provisioned and released, in some cases automatically, to scale rapidly outward and inward commensurate with demand. To the user, the capabilities available for provisioning often appear to be unlimited and can be appropriated in any quantity at any time.

Most companies, in fact, only 36% of those surveyed in Googles State of DevOps report from 2021 live up to these standards.

Even though they claim to be "in the cloud".

It's great that we have institutions setting a high bar for what it means to be in the cloud.

Unfortunately, todays fragmented eco-system of cloud-tooling makes it far too complex to achieve them.

With Ankra your organization will live up to these standards straight off the bat.

The Cloud Infra Puzzle.

1. Complexity
A good Cloud Infrastructure setup for a software company can take between 6-12 months.
Once set up resources has to be dedicated towards maintenance

2. Cutting corners
Due to complex setup the Infrastructure gets built for the short term.
As business grows, the lack of solid infrastructure prevents the business from scaling.
Developers have to re-align their focus to improve a poorly configured cloud infrastructure.

3. Human dependency
Developers are dependent on devops to interact with infrastructure.
If you don’t have devops, developers lose time.
If you have devops they are costly and the developer is still dependent.
If the person who set up the infrastructure leaves, the business will be forced to either:
A) Replace Competence or Upskill Competence to maintain and upgrade the infrastructure.
B) Rebuild Infrastructure with new competence.
Neither of which is very appealing.

The Cloud-Infra-Puzzle.

The Confusing Configuration & Burden of Maintenance

Developers have to decide between 100 different applications/services across 15 categories to finalize a good infrastructure.

With over 100 applications across the 15 categories the sea of supportive components can be extremely complicated to navigate, implement and configure.

The selection process is more than often based on personal bias as opposed to actual industry best practices.

Not because the chooser is unaware of a superior solution, but because the cognitive load of doing something new is unreasonable.

You build it you run it has been enforced across a workforce that end up being overwhelmed with maintaining their cloud-stack.

With Ankra, service selection & deployment is instant, maintenance is taken care of and developers can re-focus on building out core components.

How well did you put your puzzle?

Quality of Software developing organizations are measured based on DORA metrics, segmented from low to Elite capacity.

The way to achieve Elite status is for an organization to have the capacity of:

Having an On-demand deployment frequency

Less than an hour lead time for changes

Less than an hour Time to restore Service

A change failure rate of 0%-15%

Today organizations are scaling this DORA mountain by throwing people at the challenge.

Having them script their way to organizational efficiency.

By doing so the dependency on individuals knowledge capital increases as those scripts need continuous maintenance. Instead of leveraging technology for your business you have to leverage individual knowledge.

These people are either developers who become burdened with configuring and maintining infrastructure on top of their regular programming job.

Alternatively they're DevOps personel who enable the organization over time to be able to achieve Elite status, mainly through scripting.

DevOps personnel are a double-edged sword. They tend to be highly skilled but they make your organization dependent on their personal knowledge for how your infrastructure functions.

If you don't have devops, your developers lose time.

If you do employ them, they are not only difficult to hire & retain, they are also very costly with average salaries averaging above and beyond the 6 figure mark.

Regardless of which it is, fact of the matter is that there's a human dependency to reach and maintain your organization at Elite level.

Unfortunately, according to industryarc, IT organizations that have tried to deploy DevOps practices have a failure rate of 80%.

That's an incredibly high number considering the average cost of an infrastructure failure is 100,000$.

Put two and two together and we soon realize that those companies that are not within the Elite level are facing serious risk.

80% of business fail implementing DevOps practices.

Because it's complex.

Because it's expensive.

The industry is in a state where DevOps practices are being attempted by putting people into their organizations to achieve desired results.

It's time consuming to design, it's difficult to implement and incredibly strenuous to maintain.

But businesses have no choice but to progress their organizations.

To have a shot at efficiency and security improvements DevOps standards are necessary.

We've put it together for you.

Get your entire cloud-infrastructure up and running in an afternoon.

It doesn't have to be complex.

It doesn't have to be expensive.

You don't have to scale the mountain of Dora Metrics.

You don't even have to lace up your DevOps boots.

A solution that automates the configuration and maintenance of the developer life-cycle, end to end.

Ankra brings your organization to Elite level and beyond in an afternoon.

Welcome! We're happy to have you here.