Infrastructure

In the complex and ever-evolving world of cloud deployments, efficiency is key. Enter Hikari, a lightweight deployment manager purpose-built for cloud environments. Designed to minimize resource consumption, Hikari is a smart, efficient solution that you might need. What is Hikari? Hikari is a daemonic application that operates as an agent on virtual machines. Its primary function is to streamline deployments by regularly checking for updates in a remote configuration file and applying only the necessary changes. This precision ensures your deployment remains up-to-date without unnecessary overhead. ...

Why Autodeploy? In a fast-paced environment where multiple teams push new code to add functionality and integrate with other components, the feedback loop should be quick. This promotes rapid testing and iteration, helping us release our product to market as soon as possible. While building and deploying applications in the cloud can be quick, it often comes with unnecessary costs. Building in a local environment has several advantages: No fear of failure, encouraging the confidence to fail fast Connection to the local intranet Cost savings from using on-premises machines for compute rather than cloud resources Autodeploy is a drop-in replacement for a bash script that previously managed local deployments on a Linux server. ...