Leading the Future of Platform Engineering

Consistently recognized by Gartner® for two consecutive years in Self-Service Environment Management and Infrastructure Platform Engineering categories

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20252024
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Architecture
by:
Lucas Albuquerque

Referenced in Gartner's Reference Architecture Brief for Infrastructure Platform Engineering.

Hype Cycle
by:
Cary Pillers, Manjunath Bhat and Bill Blosen

Included as a Sample Vendor for Self-Service Environment Management category.

Hype Cycle
by:
Hassan Ennaciri, Chris Saunderson, Daniel Betts and Uzair Amin

Acknowledged in Self-Service Environment Management category.

Market Guide
by:
Chris Saunderson, Daniel Betts and Hassan Ennaciri

Listed as a representative vendor providing infrastructure automation and orchestration capabilities.

Hype Cycle
by:
Manjunath Bhat and Cary Pillers

Mentioned in the Self-Service Environment Management category as a Sample Vendor.

Hype Cycle
by:
Hassan Ennaciri, Daniel Betts and Chris Saunderson

Facets is mentioned in the context of platform engineering and infrastructure automation capabilities.

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CATEGORY

Defining the Categories

Our perspective on the transformative categories that are reshaping how enterprises build and operate software

Self-Service Environment Management

The paradigm shift from ticket-based operations to developer autonomy

  • Declarative; Not TicketOps
  • Launch a new environment in 15 mins
  • Zero Configuration Drifts
  • Environment Lifecycle Automation
Environment-as-a-commodity
" We manage 15+ global deployments with 20+ services each. Facets made this complex setup surprisingly efficient."
Pruthvi Narapareddy
Pruthvi Narapareddy
Director of Engineering
Vymo
Features

Platform Capabilities at a Glance

Features designed for Platform Teams, Developers and streamlining releases

For Platform Teams

Features for platform teams to standardize and govern infrastructure

Module Registry

Build Central registry of approved, reusable modules with version control and security compliance

Developer Abstraction

Build Developer abstraction in the Terraform Modules for giving developer friendly abstractions

Project Types

Pre-configure templates for Kubernetes, data pipelines, microservices, and ML platform architectures

Contract Validation

Build-time validation with security policy enforcement, cost controls, and dependency checking

For Developers

Self-service, that empower development teams to move fast

Visual Blueprint Canvas

Drag-and-drop interface with real-time validation. Connect resources to create your achitecture

Environment Lifecycle

Create, clone, scale environments from blueprints in minutes with instant rollback capability

Hyperconverged Configurations

Single blueprint manages infrastructure and applications configuration creating a unified declarative view to manage

Single Pane of Glass

Unified view of all releases, resource states and configuration drifts across environments and cloud

Release & Orchestration

Core engine that powers reliable, scalable infrastructure automation

Unified Release Pipeline

Single pipeline for infrastructure, configuration, and applications with atomic releases

Smart Promotion

Intelligent change promotion with dependency resolution and approval workflows

Environment Management

Hibernate environments when not-in-use, schedule releasess and configure safe release windows

Zero-Drift Enforcement

100% IaC-driven operations preventing manual changes with real-time drift detection and alerts

The Road Ahead

Innovations that will transform platform engineering in 2025 and beyond

AI-Generated Environment Blueprints

Our AI Module Writer will automatically create environment templates based on application needs, eliminating manual blueprint creation.

Self-Optimizing Environments

AI-powered environments will automatically optimize for cost, performance, and security without developer intervention.

Intelligent Resource Management

AI will predict and right-size environment resources automatically, ensuring optimal performance while minimizing waste.

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Explore Further

Deep dives, case studies, and insights from our platform engineering journey

Blog Post

OCI...The Next Standard for AI Infrastructure?

Explore why OCI is emerging as the winning standard for AI/ML artifacts and how standardization is bringing order to the fragmented MLOps landscape with Görkem Ercan, CTO at Jozu

Rohit RaveendranRohit Raveendran
Podcast

AI meets MLOps - Making sense of the mess

In this episode of AI x DevOps, Rohit sits down with Görkem Ercan, CTO at Jozu, a company building a DevOps platform for AI agents and models. Görkem, a veteran with over two decades of software experience (including contributions to the Eclipse Foundation), explains why MLOps is fundamentally different from traditional, deterministic DevOps—leading to extreme pipeline fragmentation. ### Standardization is Key Discover why OCI is the recognized standard for packaging AI/ML artifacts, and how the Model Packs project (with ByteDance, Red Hat, and Docker) is defining the artifact structure. Learn how standardization is bringing order to the fragmented MLOps landscape. ### Open Source Challenges Understand the critical challenges maintainers face when receiving large amounts of untested, verbose, AI-generated code. Görkem shares insights on the impact of AI-generated Pull Requests on open-source projects. ### LLM Economics and Strategy Explore why running small, fine-tuned LLMs in-house can be cheaper and provide more predictable, consistent results than generic large providers. Get practical insights on when to build versus buy. ### KitOps Solution Learn how KitOps creates an abstraction that allows data scientists to focus on training while leveraging existing DevOps platforms for deployment. Discover how ModelKits are simplifying the AI/ML deployment pipeline. Essential listening for platform engineers, DevOps practitioners, MLOps engineers, and anyone working at the intersection of AI and infrastructure. Tune in to understand the standardization movement reshaping the future of AI development.

Görkem ErcanGörkem Ercan
Blog Post

Infrastructure Platform Engineering: Facets Mentioned in Gartner's Reference Architecture Brief

Gartner’s Reference Architecture Brief: Infrastructure Platform Engineering named Facets Cloud in its Catalog access section.

Pravanjan ChoudhuryPravanjan Choudhury
Office hours

Kubernetes Agent for Natural Language Debugging

Discover how Facets' new Kubernetes Agent revolutionizes cluster management by enabling natural language debugging and secure troubleshooting. This episode showcases our AI-powered orchestrator that maintains proper guardrails and permissions while making Kubernetes operations conversational and intuitive. ### Live Demonstrations & Key Features Watch real-time troubleshooting as we diagnose a pod restart issue caused by missing sidecar files, identify and fix Redis deployment memory configuration problems, and demonstrate CPU usage analysis with Prometheus integration. See how the agent maintains security through user-scoped access controls while providing powerful debugging capabilities. ### Technical Deep Dive Explore the architecture behind Facets' Kubernetes Agent and how it orchestrates AI agents with secure infrastructure access. Learn about multi-tool integration supporting kubectl, Helm, and pod exec operations, plus natural language debugging that works with your existing permissions and kubeconfig setup. ### Audience Q&A Highlights Get answers to key questions about historical log analysis capabilities, chat history persistence and session management, integration possibilities with tools like Cursor and MCP, and comparisons with existing tools like ChatGPT and K9s. Plus, discover future plans for custom tool integration and blueprint generation. ### Perfect For DevOps Engineers looking to streamline Kubernetes troubleshooting workflows, Platform Engineers interested in AI-powered infrastructure management, Site Reliability Engineers seeking efficient debugging solutions, and Development Teams wanting to reduce time spent on cluster-related issues.

Anuj HydrabadiAnuj Hydrabadi
Webinar

Why Speed is the Only Moat: Acceldata’s Approach to Developer Velocity

Join Acceldata's engineering leadership as they reveal how speed became their ultimate competitive advantage. This isn't just another productivity talk — it's a deep dive into the systematic approach that transformed their development organization into a velocity powerhouse. In enterprise software delivery, speed has long been treated as a tradeoff, something to be sacrificed in favor of reliability, security, and stability. Acceldata, serving data observability needs for global enterprises, takes the opposite view: sustained speed is the only durable competitive moat. Key insights you'll gain: - **Friction assessment:** A practical method to find where developers lose time (local setup, environment drift, CI/CD bottlenecks) - **Platform blueprint:** How an internal platform standardizes the happy path for development - **Service templates:** Consistent starting points for new projects - **Golden pipelines:** Battle-tested CI/CD with sensible defaults - **Ephemeral environments:** On‑demand environments for realistic validation - **Progressive delivery:** Safe rollout patterns that reduce shipping anxiety - **Automated rollbacks:** Safety nets that make it cheap to change direction Measurement strategy: - **Core metrics:** Cycle time, change failure rate, lead time, deployment frequency - **Keep it practical:** Focus on a few signals that reflect real work, not hundreds of vanity metrics Cultural transformation: - **Autonomy with alignment:** Empower teams while keeping standards - **Lifecycle automation:** Automate the unglamorous but critical parts - **Paved‑road workflows:** Standardized paths with room to experiment - **Development observability:** Visibility across the entire delivery flow - **Feedback loops:** Continuous, high‑quality feedback to drive improvement Real‑world results: - **Shipping velocity:** 30 major releases in six months - **Service creation:** New services in minutes, not days - **Onboarding:** Hours instead of weeks - **Deployments:** Higher frequency with greater reliability - **Process visibility:** Clear insight into bottlenecks and waste This session provides a complete roadmap—from friction mapping to platform capabilities to the metrics that prove impact. It’s designed for engineering leaders, platform engineers, DevOps teams, and team leads looking to scale velocity without sacrificing reliability.

Ashwin RajeevaAshwin Rajeeva
Case Study

First Environment Live in 1 Week with AI-Powered GCP Migration

How ZeonAI Labs leveraged Facets' AI agents to achieve the first environment migration in 1 week and establish self-service operations with 3 daily releases for their agentic platform

Biswa SinghBiswa Singh

Experience Our Infrastructure Platform

See why Gartner® has recognized Facets for self-service environment management & Infrastructure Platform Engineering