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Introduction

⚡️ Holos will help you build your software development platform in no time.

💸 Building a software development platform is time consuming and expensive. Spend more time building features for your customers and less time managing your development platform.

💥 Already have a platform? Add new features and services to your platform easily with Holos.

🧐 Holos is a platform builder. It builds a hollistic software development platform composed of best-of-breed cloud native open source projects. Holos is also a tool to make it easier to manage cloud infrastructure by providing a typed alternative to yaml templates.

Features​

Holos was built to solve two main problems:

  1. Building a platform usually takes 3 engineers 6-9 months of effort. Holos provides a reference platform that enables you to deploy and customize your platform in a fraction of the time.
  2. Configuration changes often cause outages. Existing tools like Helm make it difficult to understand the impact a configuration change will have. Holos provides a unique, unified configuration model powered by CUE that makes it safer and easier to roll out configuration changes.

A core principle of Holos is that organizations gain value from owning the the platform they build on. Avoid vendor lock-in, future price hikes, and expensive licensing changes by building on a solid foundation of open source, cloud native computing foundation backed projects.

The following features are built into the Holos reference platform.

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Don't see your preferred technology in the stack? Holos is designed to enable you to swap out components of the platform tech stack.

  • Continuous Delivery
    • Holos builds a GitOps workflow for each application running in the platform.
    • Developers push changes which are automatically deployed.
    • Powered by ArgoCD
  • Identity and Access Management (IAM)
    • Holos builds a standard OIDC identity provider for you.
    • Integrates with your exisitng IAM and SSO system, or works independently.
    • Powerful customer identity and access management features.
    • Role based access control.
    • Powered by ZITADEL
  • Zero Trust
    • Authenticate and Authorize users at the platform layer instead of or in addition to the application layer.
    • Integrated with observability to measure and alert about problems before customers complain.
    • Powered by Istio
  • Observability
    • Holos collects performance and availability metrics automatically, without requiring application changes.
    • Optional, deeper integration into the application layer.
    • Distributed Tracing
    • Logging
    • Powered by Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and OpenTelemetry.
  • Data Platform
    • Integrated management of PostgreSQL
    • Automatic backups
    • Automatic restore from backup
    • Quickly fail over across multiple regions
  • Multi-Region
    • Holos is designed to operate in multiple regions and multiple clouds.
    • Keep customer data in the region that makes the most sense for your business.
    • Easily cut over from one region to another for redundancy and business continuity.

Development Status​

Holos is being actively developed by Open Infrastructure Services. Release can be found here.

Adoption​

Organizations who have officially adopted Holos can be found here.