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Overview

The Rocket Pad Platform Internal Developer Platform​

The Rocket Pad Platform is a comprehensive development environment built on top of Kubernetes. It empowers developers and operations teams to build, deploy, and manage applications efficiently and securely.

Modular Platform Design​

Our Rocket Pad Platform is designed with modularity in mind, offering flexibility and efficient resource utilization. Here's how it benefits you:

  • Activate or Deactivate Modules: The platform consists of core services (e.g., GitOps, Kubernetes integration) and optional modules (e.g., specific monitoring tools). You can selectively enable or disable modules based on your specific needs, preventing unnecessary resource consumption on features you don't currently require.
  • Scalable Expansion: As your development team and company grow, the Rocket Pad Platform can seamlessly adapt. New modules can be easily integrated to introduce additional functionalities (e.g., security scanners, CI/CD pipelines). This modular design ensures the platform scales alongside your evolving development needs.

This modular approach empowers you to create a customized development environment tailored to your specific requirements, while maintaining the flexibility to expand the platform's capabilities as your needs dictate.

Alignment with Industry Standards​

The Rocket Pad Platform prioritizes adherence to industry standards to deliver a robust, familiar, and scalable development platform:

  • GitOps Principles: Our Rocket Pad Platform adheres to GitOps principles, placing Git at the center of your infrastructure and application lifecycle management. This fosters collaboration, version control, and streamlined deployments through GitOps workflows.
  • Open Source: Our Rocket Pad Platform leverages open-source technologies at its core. With access to our code we ensure trust by allowing for transparency and independent testing of the codebase. Additionally, the open-source nature enables a large and active developer community to contribute to the platform's ongoing development and scalability, ensuring access to a wider talent pool for bug fixes, feature enhancements, and security updates.
  • Cloud Agnostic: The Rocket Pad Platform offers deployment flexibility across various cloud providers or bare-metal infrastructure. This cloud-agnostic approach allows you to choose the environment that best suits your needs and avoid vendor lock-in
  • Scalability and High Availability: Built on Kubernetes, The Rocket Pad Platform inherits its inherent scalability and high availability features. our platform can automatically scale resources up or down to meet fluctuating demands and ensures application uptime through redundancy and self-healing mechanisms.
  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC): The Rocket Pad Platform embraces IaC principles, allowing you to define and manage your infrastructure using code stored in version control systems like Git. This ensures consistent, repeatable infrastructure provisioning and simplifies rollbacks.
  • Containerization: Containerization has become the de facto standard for application packaging and deployment. The Rocket Pad Platform leverages containerization to offer a portable, lightweight, and consistent development environment.
  • Kubernetes: As the industry leader in container orchestration, Kubernetes forms the foundation of our Rocket Pad Platform. This empowers you to deploy and manage containerized applications at scale with robust functionalities.
  • OAuth and OIDC Support: For secure authentication, the platform integrates with OAuth and OpenID Connect (OIDC), industry-standard protocols that enable seamless single sign-on (SSO) across various services and applications within your organization..

By aligning with these industry standards, The Rocket Pad Platform empowers development teams to leverage familiar technologies, streamline workflows, ensure application portability, and achieve optimal platform scalability and reliability.

Guided by GitOps Principles​

The Rocket Pad Platform adheres to GitOps principles by leveraging Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and GitOps workflows. This approach empowers development teams with several key benefits:

  • Efficiency and Reliability: IaC enables consistent and repeatable infrastructure provisioning. Version control in Git ensures traceability and simplifies rollbacks.
  • Improved DORA Metrics: Faster deployments, easier rollbacks, and standardized infrastructure management ultimately lead to improved Deployment Frequency, Mean Time to Restore, and Change Lead Time.
  • Argo CD for GitOps Workflows: As the leading open-source GitOps tool, Argo CD is employed by our Rocket Pad Platform to automate GitOps workflows. Argo CD continuously monitors Git repositories for changes and applies them to the Kubernetes cluster, ensuring applications are always in sync with their Git definitions.