A brief overview of what we do at Gruntwork. Learn what we mean by "DevOps as a Service" and how you can get your entire infrastructure, defined as code, in about a day. https://www.gruntwork.io/

1. Gruntwork.io
Your entire infrastructure.
Defined as code. In about a day.

2. How you want your team to
spend its time:

3. Building products, talking to
customers, making deals

4. How your team actually
spends its time:

5. 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, …

6. Every tech company needs
infrastructure to run its software

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But infrastructure can get complicated

8. And you have to maintain it. Forever.

9. Before, you had two primary
options:

10. 1. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS):
e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud
CPU Memory Disk Drive Network Server DB

11. You get full control, but you have to
put everything together yourself
CPU Memory Disk Drive Network Server DB

12. stage prod
Which means you have to deal with this

13. 2. Platform as a Service (PaaS): e.g.,
Heroku, Docker Cloud, Engine Yard
Rails MySQL GitHub
CPU Memory Disk Drive Network Server DB

14. They hide all the lower-level details so
it’s easier to get started!
Rails MySQL GitHub
CPU Memory Disk Drive Network Server DB

15. 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. Devs can’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.

16. At Gruntwork,
we created a
third option

17. We offer a library of reusable, battle-
tested infrastructure code

18. Written primarily in Terraform, Go,
Python, and Bash

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

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

21. The code is used in production by
dozens of customers

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

23. We also provide
commercial
support

24. And training

25. So you can use your favorite IaaS
provider…
CPU Memory Disk Drive Network Server DB

26. With the easy-to-use abstractions of a
PaaS.
CPU Memory Disk Drive Network Server DB
Rails MySQL GitHub

27. But since you have all the code, you
still have full control!
CPU Memory Disk Drive Network Server DB
Rails MySQL GitHub

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

29. 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

30. 10x higher quality
10x faster
10x cheaper

31. 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

32. “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

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You need this

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And so does everyone else

36. Start using battle-tested,
commercially-supported code

37. Focus on your product and
customers

38. Let us handle
the Gruntwork
gruntwork.io