GitOps platform has transformed our deployments and now delivers thousands of apps in hours
What is our primary use case?
Akuity Platform provides us with an enterprise-grade delivery platform with a single control plane and helps us to scale up using a GitOps strategy, which is why we use it inside our infrastructure.
In our daily work, we specifically use Akuity Platform because we have a lot of nodes and pods for our system, and it helps us to maintain GitOps infrastructure within the EKS cluster, reducing the onboarding time from days to just an hour for our thousands of applications. This helps us achieve secure, consistent GitOps at scale with lowered operational overhead.
Our main use case for Akuity Platform was to implement GitOps in our deployment strategy to make the operational overhead seamless, and it is doing a wonderful job for us.
How has it helped my organization?
Akuity Platform has positively impacted our organization by helping us reduce the overall onboarding time from days to hours for thousands of applications, achieving secure, consistent GitOps at scale. It is also excellent for multi-cluster and multi-application delivery at an enterprise scale, which is a feature we are still implementing, but the performance it shows is really great.
I have seen from the impact of Akuity Platform that I used to take a lot of time to deploy the latest applications earlier, but now I am able to deploy applications within seconds. My overall SLA has been reduced significantly, so by onboarding Akuity Platform, I achieved a lot.
What is most valuable?
The best features Akuity Platform offers in my experience are simplicity, which we loved, along with scalability and being completely centralized. The governance and compliance features are really cool compared to other platforms, and due to the simplicity, I can easily onboard and deliver the product to the client really quickly.
The centralized control and compliance features of Akuity Platform have helped our team greatly because we have one control plane which can handle thousands of applications spanning across multiple clusters, reducing the operational overhead. This is one of the main constraints that Argo CD instances provide. Centralized governance is available because logging, auditing, metric history, and promotional workflows can be solved by GitOps, helping us fulfill compliance accordingly. The simplicity is minimalistic with not too much eye-exhausting dashboards, which helped us reduce traffic by eighty percent, making it a great product.
What needs improvement?
Akuity Platform can be improved by needing a bit more maturity on multi-environment strategies, and we are currently configuring it while facing some difficulties with the documentation. From a perspective of support feedback, it is a bit slow, so I would like them to fix that and make it more seamless. They need to work on making the documentation regarding deploying Terraform templates seem less outdated.
Regarding the needed improvements of documentation for Akuity Platform, I think it needs to be much more like how HashiCorp Terraform specifies the documentation, with a simplified structure and minimalistic approach, giving example solutions and clearly outlining how to integrate using Terraform, especially with multi-environment strategies. This should be more detailed compared to the current documentation.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Akuity Platform for the last one year.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Akuity Platform is definitely stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The scalability of Akuity Platform is really great because I am able to manage it on EKS.
How are customer service and support?
Customer support for Akuity Platform is a bit slow, and they need to improve on that.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We previously managed our deployments using Helm charts, which sometimes became clumsy as the developers faced continuous issues while deploying. Switching to Akuity Platform was a decent upgrade.
How was the initial setup?
I chose eight out of ten for Akuity Platform because there was a bit of slack off on customer support and documentation, which is why I did not go for ten out of ten. If those areas improve, I may give ten out of ten in the future. The product is solid and deserves at least eight.
What about the implementation team?
I purchased Akuity Platform through the AWS Marketplace.
What was our ROI?
I have seen a return on investment with Akuity Platform as it helped me save operational overhead, which resulted in cost savings on my manpower. It was definitely worth the investment.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Akuity Platform was that it was a bit expensive, but overall, I felt that was acceptable. If it can be reduced, that would be great.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Before choosing Akuity Platform, I did not evaluate other options, as I found Akuity Platform at KubeCon India, loved it, and had discussions with them before starting to utilize it.
What other advice do I have?
My advice to others looking into using Akuity Platform is to take a proof of concept and test it out. I think you will love it. I gave this review a rating of eight out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
