Gruntwork executive summary

Deploying servers, fiddling with VPCs, subnets, and route tables, patching Jenkins security vulnerabilities, trying to figure out how to run Kubernetes, building a CI / CD pipeline, conf

Your entire infrastructure

Defined as code In about a day.

How you want your team to spend its time:

Building products, talking to customers, making deals

How your team actually

spends its time:

Deploying servers, fiddling with VPCs, subnets, and route tables, patching Jenkins security vulnerabilities, trying to figure out how to run Kubernetes, building a CI / CD pipeline,

configuring SSH access, setting up monitoring & alerting, setting up log aggregation, setting

up end-to-end encryption, configuring automated deployment, writing bash scripts, …

Every tech company needs

infrastructure to run its software

stage prod

But infrastructure can get complicated

And you have to maintain it Forever.

Before, you had two primary options:

1 Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS): e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud

CPU Memory Disk Drive Network Server DB

You get full control, but you have to put everything together yourself

CPU Memory Disk Drive Network Server DB

stage prod

Which means you have to deal with this

2 Platform as a Service (PaaS): e.g., Heroku, Docker Cloud, Engine Yard

Rails MySQL GitHub

CPU Memory Disk Drive Network Server DB

They hide all the lower-level details so it’s easier to get started!

Rails MySQL GitHub

Heroku limitations

1 Can only use supported runtimes & versions (e.g., python-3.6.2 or python-2.7.13)

2 Can only use supported system software & libraries

3 Can only run web services (data stores and other services available only via paid add-ons)

4 Apps can’t access the shell

5 Devscan’t access servers via SSH

6 Local disk is read-only

7 Load balancing is HTTP/HTTPS only

8 Requests are limited to 30 seconds

9 Limited to one AWS region

10 App must boot in 60 seconds or less

11 Apps can be at most 100MB

12 Build must take less than 15 min

13 Logs are limited to 1500 lines unless you use supported (paid) add-ons

14 Manual scaling only

15 Pricing gets very steep as you scale up

16 Support only available on PST time zone

17 Limited control over security settings

But very hard to customize, debug, and scale.

At Gruntwork,

we created a third option

We offer a library of reusable, tested infrastructure code

battle-Written primarily in Terraform, Go, Python, and Bash

Pre-built solutions for AWS, Docker, VPCs, VPN, MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Kafka, ZooKeeper, Monitoring, Alerting, secrets management, CI, CD, DNS, …

And a production-ready Reference Architecture to put it all together

The code is used in production by dozens of customers

We regularly maintain and update the code Bump a version number to get better infra!

We also provide commercial

support

And training

So you can use your favorite IaaS

provider…

CPU Memory Disk Drive Network Server DB

With the easy-to-use abstractions of a PaaS

CPU Memory Disk Drive Network Server DB

But since you have all the code, you still have full control!

CPU Memory Disk Drive Network Server DB

Why not write the code yourself? Or hire a consulting company?

Do it yourself Consultant Gruntwork

Starting point From scratch From scratch Leverage 2+ years of

battle-tested code proven in prod

Time to launch 3 – 12 months(highly variable) 3 – 12 months(highly variable) 1 – 5 days (highly predictable)

Monthly cost $16,000 – $32,000 / month

(2 devs, $100k – $200k / yr)

$32,000 – $64,000 / month(2 devs, $100 - $200 / hr) $500 – $2,995 / month

Docs, tests None None Thorough documentation

and automated tests

Maintenance None None On-going maintenance,

updates, security patches

Support None None Commercial support

10x higher quality 10x faster

10x cheaper

We can help you…

Launch your startup

Migrate

to the cloud

Implement security best practices

Achieve compliance (HIPAA, PCI)

Define your infrastructure

as code

Learn DevOps, AWS, Terraform

“You are not special

Your infrastructure is

not a beautiful and

unique snowflake You have the same tech debt

as everyone else.”

— your sysadmin,

probably

stage prod

You need this

stage prod

And so does everyone else

Start using battle-tested,

commercially-supported code

Focus on your product and customers

Let us handle the Gruntwork

gruntwork.io