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Would anybody here pay for fuss-free Cloud Native CI/CD+?

I’m curious if there’s a market among fellow indie hackers for modern cloud stacks as a service. I’m working with a cofounder to build a way to automatically provision Kubernetes clusters and probably minimally Gitlab CE (free), and an additional menu of services adding for different best-practices (OSS) cloud native components: Prometheus monitoring, jaeger tracing, keycloak IAM, vault secrets, log aggregation, Grafana dashboards, all that. Plus making sure everything gets hooked up automatically.

We’d take care of (optionally?) maintenance and version management for the various components, making sure upgrades happen seamlessly for all customers, unless you decide you want to manage it yourself. On top of that, maybe some consulting time for any training and migration you might want or need to get things deploying seamlessly.

The idea is that we want to help you for as long as we provide value (continually growing what we provide), but make it possible and easy for you to leave if you decide you’ve grown enough to invest in managing it yourself, or want to on-prem it for even better cost savings. Whatever.

We want to make it easier to deploy and run apps, plus cost savings from reducing things like always-on Dev and QA environments in favor of CI/CD that utilizes the ability of the cloud to provide those exactly when needed, and only as long as needed. Imagine wanting to demo two WIP features at the same time, and doing so easily on the side and tearing down when you’re done, never compromising the ability to keep pushing to prod.

I’ve had a lot of great, revolutionary (to me at least) experiences building CI/CD on gitlab and Kubernetes, especially with their review apps and environments, and I want to help more people benefit from that with minimum overhead to getting started.

Is that something anyone here would be willing to pay (what you use) for?

on February 8, 2021