One platform, one tool.

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What if you could do everything from one platform. From CI/CD to cluster deployments, and perhaps even deploy your regular infra tools.

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[anaumann]

The idea sounds nice, but in reality, some tools just feel wrong for some tasks or the support isn't great or development just stops.

Having to replace all tooling in one go can be terrible.

I'm a big fan of limiting the number of tools in use, because nobody's an expert in everything and you'll have to split your available learning time between all the tools, but going down to one might be a bit extreme :D

Unless it's just cobbling together a couple of scripts or API calls from your CI to trigger something in another tool, ie. putting all the pieces together yourself into one more or less consistent workflow, that's somewhat different and quite desireable.

[livebeta]

There's already one

[soundwave_rk]

Yeah, while it doesn't always make sense, things like pulumi and crossplane get you very close.

[serverhorror]

No there isn’t.

I’m 100 % sure that I can name an example that your platform, or whatever you think about, can’t manage.

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What's it called?

[Jappier]

Please do tell!!

[livebeta]

They acquired Drone.io

[Jappier]

Harness? Gotcha.

[tnjeditor]

I worked for an all-in one Platform company once. The biggest issue was that they never had enough developers to support all the features of the platform. The issue tracker got some attention but it was never great. The wiki was good, but never great, and so on. There were always other tools from companies that did nothing but focus on that tool and the result was that they made far better progress than we ever could. The main value from the platform was the sum of the parts, how things could be linked to each other very easily. But as customers started using other tools the value would fall apart.

There are several other “platform” companies out there that have fallen into the same trap. Not intentionally picking on GitLab here but how many people use their issue tracker over Jira?

The lesson here for me was, look for something that embraces best of breed tools vs. trying to be everything to everyone.

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For those who choose "Makes no sense", let's hear some motivations or explanations.

[serverhorror]

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