Migrate, deploy, operate and manage your infrastructure and applications seamlessly in AWS, GCP & Azure with Multistax.
Innovate faster, operate smarter & optimize costs
Build, run and evolve a modern cloud native application landscape at scale, while removing complexity, operational dependency and sprawl.
Multistax is the integral platform to centrally deploy, run and evolve your entire application landscape. It has uniform operations, governance, security and observability.
One platform with the functionality and intelligence to scale and evolve applications faster, while remaining in complete control and minimizing costs.
- Standardized and automated cloud operations.
- Increased speed of deployment.
- Unified governance, security and observability.
- Minimizing costs, operational dependency and resources.
Cloud agnostic and portable.
Multistax supports a differentiated technology stack that best suits your application landscape, supporting virtual machines and Kubernetes across a diverse on-premise, private and public cloud ecosystem, while remaining completely cloud agnostic and portable.
Migrate, deploy, operate and manage your infrastructure and applications seamlessly in AWS, GCP & Azure with Multistax.
Innovate faster, operate smarter & optimize costs
Build, run and evolve a modern cloud native application landscape at scale, while removing complexity, operational dependency and sprawl.
Multistax is the integral platform to centrally deploy, run and evolve your entire application landscape. It has uniform operations, governance, security and observability.
One platform with the functionality and intelligence to scale and evolve applications faster, while remaining in complete control and minimizing costs.
- Standardized and automated cloud operations.
- Increased speed of deployment.
- Unified governance, security and observability.
- Minimizing costs, operational dependency and resources.
Cloud agnostic and portable.
Multistax supports a differentiated technology stack that best suits your application landscape, supporting virtual machines and Kubernetes across a diverse on-premise, private and public cloud ecosystem, while remaining completely cloud agnostic and portable.
Take the first step towards building and running a differentiated cloud native landscape by getting in touch with us today.
Multistax is a perfect fit for organizations aiming to accelerate digital innovation. Its scalability, transparency, governance, and security features make it an ideal choice for optimizes costs, bridging the resource and knowledge gap for successful execution of a cloud native landscape for organizations. As IT or Application Leaders, be sure to consult us for addressing your challenges effectively.
Why Multistax is an ideal choice for platform teams, DevOps, and product owners? It allows for centralized project governance, standardization, and automation of DevOps processes, also it eliminates operational dependencies, enabling self-service and efficiency. By leveraging reusable building blocks and best practices, it will simplify complexity and drives innovation for your organization.
Empower your organization to build and run a differentiated cloud native landscape more efficiently, securely and transparently.
Evolve Faster
Deploy new code faster by minimizing your DevOps efforts.
Remove dependency on engineering ops and minimize the workload through developer self service and DevOps automation.
Faster Time to Market:
By automating many of the routine tasks associated with deploying and managing applications, Multistax significantly reduces the time it takes to go from code to production. This means that you can deliver new features and updates to your users faster, giving you a competitive edge in the market.
Streamlined Deployment:
With the GitOps approach, Multistax automates the deployment process, making it more predictable, repeatable, and robust.
Self service:
Developers simply need to push manifest files to a repository, and Multistax handles the rest by detecting this change automatically. Once pushed to GitLab, the new version of the application is rolled out on the infrastructure that Multistax created from the platform-template and building blocks for those clusters.
Day-to-day operations:
The Multistax platform is built with the principles of DevOps in mind, providing tools and capabilities that promote collaboration, automation, and integration between development and operations teams. It goes beyond day-to-day operations, delivering functionalities that directly support the entire DevOps lifecycle.
Interfacing with GitLab/GitHub:
Multistax integrates seamlessly with GitLab. It uses GitOps principles for infrastructure management. This allows developers to use the same familiar Git workflow for infrastructure changes as they do for code changes. Any changes made in the repository trigger the CI/CD pipelines. This approach creates a version-controlled and auditable infrastructure deployment process.
Automated CI/CD:
Multistax automates the process of continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD). This automation enables developers to focus more on writing code and remove the burden of operational tasks.
Automated Builds:
The process of building from the source code can be completely automated. This includes compiling the code, running unit and integration tests, creating build reports, and more. This ensures that every change to the codebase is validated, reducing the chance of integration problems later on. Multistax integrates all of these features, both for end-users/developers and for the code running the platform.
Easy code checks and validation:
In staging steps for end users; instead of having to setup and rollout multiple 1:1 similar hosting/cluster environments by hand, Multistax automates this using CI/CD. Multistax’s CI pipelines also do validation checking on the code. If some code is potentially vulnerable, deployments will be blocked.
Automated Deployments and environment management:
Multistax can automate the deployment of applications to various environments (like dev, test, staging, and prod). This includes deploying updates and new features, rolling back changes if there are issues, and managing version control. It also manages the provisioning and configuration of the environments used for testing and deployment, ensuring that they remain consistent and h4ly reducing the likelihood of “works on my machine” issues. Developers can also set up pipelines to run automated tests on their code every time changes are pushed. This can include unit tests, integration tests, functional tests, performance tests, and more.
Infrastructure in minutes, not hours:
By using the core building blocks of the Multistax platform, you don’t have to install and deploy any infrastructure and software by hand anymore. Just copy and paste building block modules, add your wished variables (e.g.: which URLs will be hosted on the cluster) and all the infrastructure components will be rolled out by Gitlab Ci/CD.
Continuous Monitoring and Feedback:
Multistax provides tools for continuous monitoring of application states, allowing for automatic detection if a new version becomes available. When this new version becomes available, the application running on the cluster will be automatically updated.
Run a streamlined and transparent operation.
Uniformity – Automation – Control
Automating infrastructure deployment and operations.
Multistax empowers organizations to uniformly deploy their infrastructure components, configurations and policies across the entire platform, automating a large number of the engineering and infrastructure ops.
This allows them to scale and operate efficiently, significantly reducing the complexity, efforts and costs of operations.
Uniform Infrastructure:
Multistax uses the same components, tools, and configuration across different environments. This brings benefits such as:
Pre-configured deployment templates:
Multistax standardizes infrastructure, by making consistent building blocks available on every cluster or deployment. This will ensure your organization has a uniform and consistent architecture.
Automated Scaling:
Multistax automates infrastructure scaling. This allows your services to automatically scale up during high demand and scale down during quieter periods, optimizing resource usage and reducing costs.
Simplified updates:
A uniform setup means updates can be rolled out to all environments simultaneously, reducing the maintenance overhead.
Easier replication:
With the same setup across different environments, it’s easier to replicate issues and test fixes or updates. This issue can then be resolved for all the deployed resources in the same way.
Increased efficiency:
Teams become more efficient as they don’t have to understand and manage disparate setups. There is one uniform configuration base and solution.
Uniform policies:
Create, automate and enforce uniform policies across your platform to ensure optimal performance, governance and security across your platform.
Standardization and Compliance:
Standardize configurations across the platform and ensure compliance with industry standards and organizational best practices. This consistency can lead to better system stability and fewer security risks.
Automated policy Enforcement and Validation:
Validate and enforce policies in real-time, helping to maintain system security and prevent misconfigurations. It applies these policies both at the time of creation and on existing resources.
Simplified RBAC management:
The Multistax platform makes authentication between the different components easy for both engineers working on the infrastructure side of the platform, as well as end-users (application developers) of the platform. The platform can also use Keycloak or your organization’s existing identity provider.
Streamlining and automation:
Reduced manual operations to operate the infrastructure through the intelligent automation of Multistax that significantly reduces the need for specialized roles and excessive human intervention, leading to leaner teams without compromising on quality.
Decreased engineering dependency and manual operations:
- Automation and pre-provision of pre-configured building blocks (software components that are pre-configured and ready to deploy instantly) reduces the requirement for expert engineers.
- Easier fleet updates and patches (you’ll only have to change one variable/code line in the platform config each time) mean less time spent by engineers on maintaining system security and updates.
- Automated error monitoring and alerting to staff reduce the need for engineers to continuously oversee the system, with dashboards that are easy to use and interact with can be set-up to further enhance this as well.
- As Multistax can provide many operational details that usually fall to managers, fewer managerial tasks are required. Entire cost reports and projections can be produced, gathering all the cloud providers costs and everything can be then further visualized.
- Multistax’s ability to uniformly (same configured software components everywhere) roll out systems and clusters reduces the need for round-the-clock staffing for infrastructure.
- Best practices: The platform utilizes all industry-wide best practices and adhere to all compliances of ISO and NEN.
Ensure security across your platform.
Centralised Security Framework
Platform protection and compliance management.
Multistax provides a centralized framework for managing your security policies, scans and tasks across your entire platform, throughout the different stages of the application life-cycle.
Image scanning:
Image scanning tools are used to analyze container images for known vulnerabilities and security risks, providing insights into potential weaknesses that need to be addressed before deployment.
Securing CI/CD pipelines:
Omplement access controls, authentication, and encryption to protect the integrity and confidentiality of the code and artifacts being built, tested, and deployed.
Automated Secret Management:
Automate the secure handling of sensitive information like API keys, passwords, and certificates. This reduces the risk of such data being mishandled or exposed.
Securing the host OS:
Security measures are implemented on the host operating system (OS) to protect against unauthorized access, including regular patching, enforcing secure configurations, and implementing host-based firewalls and intrusion detection systems.
Securing the workload access to the host:
Access controls and network policies are enforced to restrict and secure the communication between the application workload and the underlying host, ensuring that only authorized access is granted.
Cluster hardening:
Cluster hardening involves implementing security configurations and best practices to strengthen the overall security posture of the Kubernetes cluster, including securing network communication, restricting access privileges, and enabling RBAC (Role-Based Access Control).
Perimeter firewalls:
Establish a boundary around the Kubernetes cluster, filtering incoming and outgoing network traffic to prevent unauthorized access and protect against external threats.
Security groups:
Define the rules and policies for network traffic within the cloud environment, ensuring that only authorized traffic is allowed and providing an additional layer of protection for the deployed services.
Admission controllers:
Validate and enforce specific policies and rules for incoming requests to the Kubernetes cluster, such as image verification, resource limitations, and security policies, ensuring that only compliant and secure workloads are deployed.
Exposing services:
Services are exposed to make them accessible to users or other services. This can be done by configuring load balancers, setting up Ingress controllers, or utilizing service meshes, enabling secure and controlled access to the deployed services.
Access Control and Identity Management:
One platform, one portal to access all the services in the Multistax platform, simplifying user management significantly, saving significant time and enhancing central security controls, governance and auditing.
Network policy:
Define and enforce rules for communication between different components of the application, ensuring that only authorized traffic is allowed and prevent unauthorized access or data leakage.
Application layer policy:
Define and enforce security measures at the application level, such as authentication, authorization, input validation, and data encryption, to protect against common application-level threats and vulnerabilities.
Observability:
Observability tools and techniques are utilized to monitor and gain insights into the behavior, performance, and health of the application. This includes logging, metrics, and tracing, enabling proactive identification and resolution of issues to ensure optimal performance and reliability.
Encryption:
Encryption mechanisms, such as SSL/TLS with Certmanager, are implemented to protect data both in transit and at rest, ensuring the confidentiality and integrity of sensitive information and preventing unauthorized access or tampering.
Auditing and compliance:
Auditing and compliance practices are followed to monitor and track activity within the runtime environment, ensuring adherence to regulatory requirements and internal security policies. This includes generating audit logs, conducting periodic reviews, and maintaining compliance with relevant standards.
Threat detection:
Threat detection mechanisms can be integrated for anomaly detection, security information and event management (SIEM) and can be employed to monitor the runtime environment for suspicious activities, detect potential threats or breaches, and enable prompt response and mitigation.
Data Protection Standardization:
Multistax ensure standardization of data protection and backup strategies, with native backup services from AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and AliYun, applications can easily be restored. Clusters and configuration will be taken care of by the Cloud provider’s backup solution. All configured automatically, so backing up data has never been easier and less time consuming.
Central Observability.
Real-Time Insights
Immediate visibility into critical metrics.
Multistax provides real-time insight into the key metrics across your platform, so you can have complete visibility on your operations, governance and security. Access to key performance metrics will support your organization to step in where necessary and optimize business outcomes in evolving your applications faster, more secure and with confidence.
Key areas of observability are:
- Infrastructure & application health
- Real time insight into cloud consumption and costs
- Platform Security
Creating dashboards is a simple and intuitive process. You can create a variety of visualizations such as line charts, bar graphs, pie charts, maps, and more. These visualizations can be combined into a single dashboard to give you a comprehensive view of your data.
Dashboards are highly customizable. You can filter data, adjust time ranges, and drill down into specific details. They can be shared, embedded in other applications, or exported as PDF or CSV files. Dashboards can be used to monitor real-time data, analyze trends over time, troubleshoot issues, or present data in a clear and understandable way to stakeholders.
Cloud logging analytics
In any cloud-native environment, logs are continuously generated by various components such as applications, infrastructure services, and security systems. These logs contain valuable information that can help identify issues, track user behavior, and understand system performance.
Logs can be searched and analyzed in real time, such as error messages that indicate a problem, sequences of events leading up to an issue, or user activity in your applications.
Infrastructure Health
Metrics such as CPU usage, memory consumption, disk I/O, network traffic, and others are captured. These metrics provide a clear picture of the performance and health of your infrastructure over time. With this data, you can create visualizations and dashboards to get a real-time view of your infrastructure health. This makes it easier to spot potential issues before they affect your applications or services.
Application Performance:
Application performance metrics can be captured to trace transactions, monitor services, and see a detailed overview of your applications’ performance. Multistax captures response times for incoming requests, database queries, calls to caches, external HTTP requests, and more. This data can be visualized to understand how your application is performing and where bottlenecks are occurring.
Kubernetes Performance:
Monitoring the performance of your Kubernetes environment is critical in a cloud-native setup. Metrics about the state of your nodes, pods, containers, and services are captured. These insights help to optimize resource usage, scale deployments effectively, and ensure the smooth running of cloud native applications.
Optimize cloud costs across your platform.
Multistax provides real-time cost reporting, alerting and insights into where your resources are being consumed and at what cost. This enables you to track consumption and spend across your entire platform; per cloud provider, deployment, service. Providing granular visibility into your cloud expenditure, cost drivers and insights, so you can make informed decisions to optimize your resource utilization and reduce costs.
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Remain cloud agnostic and portable.
Designed to migrate seamlessy
Migrate without disruption of service.
Multistax offers extensive multi-cloud support, enabling organizations to efficiently deploy and manage their applications and infrastructure across various cloud providers.
With support for major cloud platforms such as Azure, GCP and AWS, Multistax provides a unified and flexible solution that caters to diverse business needs.
Portability:
You want to remain cloud agnostic, with the freedom to move between clouds when circumstances require you to do so, whether that is due to cost, performance or other reasons. Multistax provides that flexibility, fully automated.
Multistax helps you to become Cloud Agnostic
Multistax’s focus on cloud agnostic approach provides numerous benefits to organizations looking to deploy and manage their applications and infrastructure across multiple cloud providers.
This prevents also vendor lock-ins: By offering a unified, extensible, and scalable solution that supports multi-cloud deployment, Multistax enables organizations to take advantage of the unique features and services offered by each cloud provider while maintaining a consistent and streamlined management experience.
Multistax Multi-Cloud Support
Seamless integration:
Multistax’s multi-cloud support allows organizations to manage resources across different cloud providers through a single, unified platform, simplifying operations and reducing the need for multiple management tools.
Simplified resource management:
Multistax’s Infrastructure as Code (IaC) capabilities, which include Terraform and other components, make it easy to provision, manage, and monitor resources across multiple cloud providers, streamlining operations and reducing manual intervention.
Enhanced portability:
Multistax facilitates workload migration between cloud providers, enabling organizations to leverage the best features and services from each provider or adopt a multi-cloud strategy for added resilience and flexibility.
Optimized resource utilization:
Multistax’s multi-cloud support enables organizations to distribute workloads across different cloud providers, optimizing resource utilization and ensuring high availability.
Consistent policies and governance:
Multistax ensures consistent policies and governance across multiple cloud providers, simplifying compliance and enhancing security.
Bridge your resource gap permanently.
Your bridge to the cloud
Streamlined automation with expert guidance and flexible resources.
Automation and the ability to execute, as well as on-demand access to consultancy, resources and services flexibly at your disposal.
On top of the automation and operational streamlining, Multistax customers have ad-hoc access to consultancy and (human) resources, to optimally address challenges or guidance in their cloud native journey, i.e. modernizing legacy applications, architectural design.
This gives companies the experience and scale required, completely flexible and at their disposal.
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For IT & application leaders
Accelerate digital innovation.
Ability to scale through unification and automation.
Transparent, governed and secure cloud native platform.
Optimized and predictable costs.
Ability to execute, bridging the resource & knowledge gap.
For platform teams / devops & product owners
Govern all projects in one place.
Standardize & automate DevOps.
Remove operational dependency & self-serve developers.
Remove complexity by utilizing reusable standardized building blocks, policies, and best practices.