Business Software for Google Compute Engine

Ternary stands out as the first native FinOps tool designed specifically for optimizing cloud costs within Google Cloud. It empowers users to make informed financial choices, ensuring a culture of accountability, collaboration, and trust between finance and engineering departments. FinOps serves as a framework for overseeing the fluctuating expenses associated with cloud services, incorporating a blend of systems, best practices, and cultural shifts that maximize the value derived from every dollar allocated to the cloud. Ternary is equipped to assist organizations at any phase of their FinOps journey, developing tools that bridge the gap between finance and engineering through features rooted in FinOps principles. This innovative platform provides essential visibility and context, fostering collaboration between teams, while its workflows are designed to promote accountability. By enabling organizations to easily monitor, prioritize, and track cost optimizations to completion, Ternary enhances overall financial management efficiency across the board. As businesses increasingly rely on cloud solutions, Ternary’s role in facilitating effective financial practices becomes ever more critical.

Opal is a cutting-edge security platform designed to help organizations implement least privilege principles while introducing innovative methods for teams to enhance their productivity. We advocate for access that is decentralized, self-service, and seamlessly integrated with existing technologies utilized by your team. By eliminating bottlenecks, we empower teams to delegate access requests to the individuals who possess the most relevant context, resulting in quicker and more informed decisions. With intelligent automation, Opal takes care of the entire access process—granting permissions when they're crucial, sending out automated reminders, and revoking access when it’s no longer necessary. Transparency is key; it’s essential to have clarity regarding who approves access, who holds permissions, the status of requests, and other vital details to avoid the confusion often caused by miscommunication. Many organizations often provide excessive access with a coarse approach that lacks precision and typically lasts indefinitely. Additionally, the majority of companies rely on cumbersome and inconsistent methods to manage just-in-time access, which can hinder operational efficiency. By streamlining this process, Opal ensures organizations can maintain security while empowering their teams to work effectively.

Kata Containers is software licensed under Apache 2 that features two primary components: the Kata agent and the Kata Containerd shim v2 runtime. Additionally, it includes a Linux kernel along with versions of QEMU, Cloud Hypervisor, and Firecracker hypervisors. Combining the speed and efficiency of containers with the enhanced security benefits of virtual machines, Kata Containers seamlessly integrates with container management systems, including widely used orchestration platforms like Docker and Kubernetes (k8s). Currently, it is designed to support Linux for both host and guest environments. For hosts, detailed installation guides are available for various popular distributions. Furthermore, the OSBuilder tool offers ready-to-use support for Clear Linux, Fedora, and CentOS 7 rootfs images, while also allowing users to create custom guest images tailored to their needs. This flexibility makes Kata Containers an appealing choice for developers seeking the best of both worlds in container and virtualization technology.

Achieve seamless and secure access to your cloud infrastructure without the need for passwords. Experience passwordless authentication for major cloud platforms and a multitude of cloud resources, as we integrate smoothly with AWS, GCP, Azure, and various other cloud-native tools. Prevent overprivileged access by implementing just-in-time access specifically for developers. DevOps professionals can easily request access to cloud resources with a 'just enough privileges' approach, ensuring they have time-limited permissions. This setup helps to eliminate the productivity issues that arise from relying on a centralized administrator. You can configure approval policies tailored to different criteria, and you'll have the ability to view a comprehensive catalog of both granted and unaccessed resources. Mitigate the risks of credential sprawl and the anxiety surrounding credential theft. Developers are empowered to gain passwordless access to cloud resources using advanced Trusted Platform Module (TPM) technology. Additionally, you can uncover potential vulnerabilities today with our complimentary assessment tool, gaining insights into how Procyon can effectively address these issues in a matter of hours. By leveraging TPM, you can ensure strong identification of both users and their devices, thus enhancing overall security. This innovative approach not only streamlines access but also fortifies your cloud security posture significantly.

Polarity serves as a dynamic overlay that simultaneously scans countless sources to enhance analysis efficiency by enriching various tools and workflows. By empowering users to add and enrich information, it ensures that teams and organizations remain aligned and minimizes the chances of redundant efforts. When a user annotates any data today, their colleagues can view that note the next time they access the same information. This tool allows users to conduct a single search and discover everything their organization knows about a specific piece of data, encompassing both internal and external insights. Tasks that previously required managing 50 tabs and consuming significant time can now be accomplished with just one tab in a mere two seconds, allowing users to concentrate on completing their work rather than hunting for context. Additionally, Polarity can be linked to over 200 tools within a user's ecosystem or to external open-source applications. With its adaptable integration framework, anyone is capable of swiftly creating a custom integration to gain visibility into any dataset they require. As a result, Polarity not only streamlines workflows but also fosters collaboration across teams, making information sharing seamless and efficient.

Test Kitchen serves as a testing framework that allows the execution of infrastructure code in a controlled environment across multiple platforms. It employs a driver plugin system to facilitate code execution on a variety of cloud services and virtualization options, including Vagrant, Amazon EC2, Microsoft Azure, Google Compute Engine, and Docker, among others. The tool comes pre-configured with support for several testing frameworks such as Chef InSpec, Serverspec, and Bats. In addition, it offers compatibility with Chef Infra workflows, allowing for cookbook dependency management through Berkshelf or Policyfiles, or even by simply including a cookbooks/ directory for automatic recognition. As a result, Test Kitchen is widely adopted by community cookbooks managed by Chef and has become the preferred tool for integration testing in the cookbook ecosystem. This widespread usage underscores its importance in ensuring that infrastructure code is robust and reliable across diverse environments.

Enhance on-demand accessibility to production, development, and testing environments, facilitating superior innovation, accelerating application delivery, and optimizing the transition to production. Our team focuses on crafting and deploying cloud infrastructure tailored to meet your current and future business requirements. We excel in creating web-scale architectures characterized by load balancing, automatic scaling, self-healing capabilities, and cost efficiency. You will only incur costs for the resources you utilize, while still being equipped to handle demand surges. Adopting the Infrastructure as Code approach allows us to create infrastructure that is self-documenting, version-controlled, and automated. This enables you to gain valuable insights into your applications, pinpoint performance bottlenecks, comprehend resource needs, automatically adjust scaling when necessary, and notify relevant stakeholders. Additionally, we collaborate closely with your developers to refine and enhance your application's build and deployment pipeline, ensuring seamless integration and improved workflow. By leveraging these strategies, you can achieve a more agile and responsive development cycle.

Google Cloud Observability is designed to give you full visibility into the health and performance of your applications. Through the collection of key telemetry data, such as metrics, logs, and traces, the platform empowers you to proactively detect and address issues, keeping your applications reliable and available. With tools for monitoring, troubleshooting, and debugging, Google Cloud's observability services make it easier to analyze complex, distributed systems and respond to unexpected changes efficiently. The ability to view performance patterns and gain actionable insights helps you optimize your strategies and maintain seamless operations across your environment.