CloudMunch Launches a Full-Stack DevOps Platform

CloudMunch Inc last month officially announced the launch of its freemium full-stack DevOps platform - a dashboard of pre-integrated tools for version control, build management, validation, automated testing, deployment and cloud connectors. The software is hosted and managed as a service (SaaS) eliminating the need for developers to setup their own set of tools.

Starting at $100 a month for private and free for open source projects, the product includes a wide range of features covering DevOps and Continuous Delivery from development to production. CloudMunch claims its platform significantly simplifies deployment of applications and infrastructure. The ambitious feature set includes:

GitHub integration with intuitive project import into CloudMunch
Java, JavaScript, php, .NET, Ruby projects are supported
Simplified Jenkins for Continuous Integration
Developer tools integration such as most version control systems, Jira, Bugzilla
IaaS and PaaS connectors for seamless provisioning and deployment
Chef for deploy-anywhere continuous delivery
Continuous application and infrastructure integration & deployment
Cross-team social collaboration integrated into the dashboard
In-context, real-time analytics for build metrics
Automated testing and code quality frameworks such as Selenium
Monitoring of launched servers with AWS CloudWatch and Nagios

CloudMunch integrates these disparate tools into a project-oriented dashboard, one of its main differentiators. The project metaphor allows for an intuitive workflow. CTO and cofounder Prasanna Raghavendra explained in the company blog:

What we have done is to wrap Jenkins with project constructs so that it is easier to connect to the ALM world. Now one can link this to a release in a requirement management tool, and a project in defect tracking tool or a project management tool [...] Projects in the CloudMunch construct contain a branch, multiple jobs, multiple environments, multiple servers, a build progression workflow. All this wrapped in one entity helps evaluate software progress against its intended value, in a much better way.

With this feature set delivered as a service, Pradeep Prabhu, cofounder and CEO, claims its product offering is "democratizing continuous delivery." CloudMunch is available in an Express and a Pro edition.