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In my journey through the cloud infrastructure landscape, I've encountered a recurring challenge: businesses transitioning from traditional on-premises solutions to public clouds often struggle with managing application deployments and Kubernetes cluster configurations. The existing cloud ecosystem, with its numerous providers and disparate tools, lacks unification, making it difficult to master each platform. These complexities can be overwhelming, detracting from innovation and growth.

At AstroPulse, we recognized these critical pain points and developed the Astro Platform to simplify and unify the management of applications and clusters. By bringing everything under one streamlined service, Astro Platform eliminates the need to juggle different tools and platforms, reducing the learning curve and enabling businesses to maintain agility, enhance operational efficiency, and focus on their core mission of innovation. The platform integrates our Nova AI capabilities to provide intelligent insights and recommendations, making your cloud infrastructure both powerful and intuitive. Additionally, Astro Platform simplifies the management of multi-cloud vendor environments, supporting both managed and self-hosted Kubernetes clusters.

Why Choose Astro Platform?​

Our platform simplifies the deployment and management of applications through an intuitive use of YAML, Helm charts, or our tailored Astro Application resource abstraction. This approach not only supports a range of application types—stateless and stateful—but also integrates seamlessly into your existing workflows.

Intelligent Deployment with Nova AI​

Astro Platform, enhanced by Nova AI, revolutionizes how you deploy and manage applications in the cloud. Nova AI analyzes your deployment patterns, infrastructure usage, and application behavior to provide intelligent recommendations that optimize performance, scalability, and reliability.

Our platform supports multiple deployment methods, giving you the flexibility to use what works best for your workflow:

YAML Configuration Examples​

profileName: dev-profile-aws
clusterName: aws-us-west2.k8s.local

name: hello-world
profileName: dev-profile
source:
type: image
image:
 registry: docker.io
 repository: astropulse/latency
 tag: v1.0.0

name: cert-manager
profileName: dev-cluster
source:
type: helm
helm: 
  repo: 
    repoURL: https://charts.jetstack.io
    chartVersion: v1.14.5
    chartName: cert-manager
  values:
   type: object
   object: {} # any values.yaml property

name: foo-control-plane
profileName: dev-cluster
source:
type: repository
repository: 
  repo: 
    path: charts/foo-control-plane
    repoURL: git@github.com:astropulseinc/astro-platform-apps.git
    targetBranch: main
  values:
   type: files
   files:
   - ../values/foo-control-plane.yaml # relative path based on the repo.path

name: kafka-cluster
profileName: dev-cluster
namespace: foo-namespace
source:
type: yaml
yaml: 
  repo: 
    path: resources/foo
    repoURL: https://github.com/astropulseinc/astro-platform-apps.git
    targetBranch: main
  exclude: "*.md"

Nova AI analyzes these configurations in real-time, suggesting optimizations, catching potential issues before deployment, and learning from your usage patterns to provide increasingly personalized recommendations.

One of the standout features of Astro Platform is its ability to manage multiple Kubernetes clusters effortlessly. Our management tool, astroctl, provides a comprehensive view across all deployments, allowing you to monitor logs, events, and application statuses irrespective of the specific cluster or cloud provider they reside on. This unified pipeline significantly reduces the complexities associated with managing diverse cloud environments.

$ astroctl clusters get -p aws
dev-stack-aws.k8s.local
prod-stack-aws.k8s.local
test-stack-aws.k8s.local

But what truly sets Astro Platform apart is its advanced capability to support direct use of the kubectl command by retrieving the kubeconfig file. With a simple command, you can pull the kubeconfig of any cluster running on any public cloud provider.

$ astroctl clusters set-context dev-stack-aws.k8s.local
fetched kubeconfig
kubeconfig entry generated for cluster: dev-stack-aws.k8s.local

This powerful feature allows for straightforward debugging and troubleshooting. For instance, one of our clients resolved a critical deployment issue within minutes using this feature, significantly reducing downtime and boosting their team's productivity.