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Today, Seal (hereinafter referred to as "Seal") announced the official open source Walrus, an application management platform based on the concept of platform engineering, dedicated to solving the deep pain points in the field of application delivery.

Extend cloud native capabilities and best practices to non-containerized environment with Walrus, support unified orchestration and deployment of any application form, reduce the complexity of using infrastructure, provide easy-to-use and consistent application management and deployment experience for R & D and operation and maintenance teams, and build a seamless collaborative software delivery process.

After more than half a year of research and polishing, Walrus has introduced some popular features, such as one-click deployment and cloning of complex application systems, integration of AI language model to simplify template code generation, flexible and powerful dynamic management of applications and environment, and so on.

It is worth mentioning that the founding team of Seal comes from the core team of Rancher, the most widely used open source Kubernetes management platform in the industry, and adheres to the open source concept consistently adopted by the founding team. Walrus is officially open source based on the Apache 2.0 license, and is looking forward to bringing a new application deployment experience and software delivery paradigm to enterprise users.

"Open source is the spirit and gene of the Seal team, and continuous innovation is also our goal." Qin Xiaokang, co-founder and CEO of Seal, said: "through open source Walrus, on the one hand, we hope to provide a simple and refreshing application deployment and management experience for developers around the world, on the other hand, we hope to expand the possibilities of Walrus with users in the open source community."

Solve the problem of "the last kilometer" of DevOps landing

DevOps culture has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and has been adopted by many enterprises. However, with the wide application of distributed systems, the complexity of modern software development is getting higher and higher, which leads to the uncontrollable infrastructure and environment within the enterprise and the cognitive burden of R & D. the landing of DevOps is facing the challenge of "the last kilometer".

Platform engineering is not an either-or relationship with DevOps. On the contrary, platform engineering is the next stage of DevOps. Through infrastructure automation, user self-service, and AI-driven application self-delivery / self-deployment / self-management (ADAS), it improves the traditional cooperation mode and promotes the large-scale landing of DevOps.

By providing flexible and powerful application and environment deployment management capabilities and shielding the upper abstraction of the infrastructure, Walrus enables developers to build, deploy and run applications without knowing the underlying technical details. Reduce the cognitive burden of developers.

At the same time, the operation and maintenance / platform team fine-grained management of development, testing, production and other environments through environment dependence graph, multi-level variable configuration and other features to enhance the controllability and visibility of the infrastructure.

Create a simple and refreshing application deployment experience

One-click call to team best practices

The service template in Walrus is designed according to the principle of DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself). Users can reuse it and gradually precipitate the best practices of the R & D and operation and maintenance team in the process of actual use.

Catalog is added in the latest version, which is fully compatible with the native Terraform Module warehouse management mode. Users can reuse tens of thousands of mature Module in the Terraform community with one click to customize the service templates required by the application. In addition, Catalog also facilitates the unified management and invocation of service templates.

In addition, Walrus integrates the large language model AI, and realizes the combination of AI technology and application management through the AI Agent pattern. Users can directly use natural language to generate service template code, correct and explain the generated code, and further simplify the application deployment experience.

Avoid "internal consumption" repeated configuration

Walrus supports bulk cloning services and environments. Users can easily copy existing service configurations to single or multiple target environments, support the parameter definition of cloned services, and quickly create a new environment according to the configuration and services of the existing environment. including application-related services and infrastructure resources in the environment.

After the cloning environment is created, users can use the environment in application management, and the cloned services will be automatically arranged and deployed according to dependencies to avoid unnecessary internal friction of repeated configuration, optimize workflow, and improve the reliability of software delivery.

Future function planning

Seal continues to explore a more simplified application deployment experience in software delivery, and in the coming months, we will drive Walrus projects around the following scenarios:

Meet the needs of a variety of enterprise complex scenarios, such as automated management of application environment life cycle, traditional deployment model enhancement, application release workflow and approval, configuration drift detection, etc.

Enhance policy control capabilities, such as automatic interception or alarms for risky deployment and configuration

Strengthen AI intelligent scene, including daily application management operation based on natural language through AI, AI intelligent analysis and fault location, etc.

In addition, there are blockbuster AI products about to open source, please look forward to it.

At the platform Engineering Conference held in Beijing on September 2, Dr. Liang Sheng and COO Jiang Peng, CTO of Seal, will introduce and demonstrate the highlights of Walrus. Welcome to the conference!

Completely open source, welcome to join the community

As an application management platform based on the concept of platform engineering, Walrus hopes to create a simple and refreshing application deployment and management experience to help R & D and operation and maintenance teams reduce "internal friction" and improve the development experience.

At the same time, Walrus welcomes the participation and contribution of every developer. If you like this project, you are welcome to light up star for us on Github.

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