Cloud Operations

Welcome to Cloud Operations (CloudOps) by Playground, your modern gateway to simplified and powerful cloud infrastructure management. At Playground, we approach cloud management with a forward-thinking Platform Engineering methodology—transforming the complexity of cloud-native environments into intuitive, self-service experiences for developers.

Cloud-native technologies promise speed, scalability, and innovation, but often bring significant complexity that can hamper productivity and delay feature delivery. Traditional IT operations typically fall short, as they focus primarily on maintaining infrastructure rather than enabling innovation. This is where our CloudOps service excels.

Drawing inspiration from best practices in Platform Engineering, our CloudOps service encapsulates infrastructure complexity behind powerful abstraction layers, automation, and standardized processes. This allows your teams to refocus their energy entirely on delivering business value rather than navigating infrastructure challenges.

Taking advantage of collective innovation and continuous improvement, each enhancement or capability developed for one customer automatically enriches the platform experience for all. This collective approach accelerates your organization's journey toward a highly optimized infrastructure environment.

Why CloudOps?

Our service leverages collective innovation and continuous improvement. Every enhancement or new capability developed for any of our customers automatically enriches the platform experience for all—accelerating your journey towards a highly optimized and developer-friendly environment.

Benefits at a Glance

• Enhanced Developer Experience: Abstract away infrastructure complexities, letting your development teams innovate faster.

• Built-In Governance: Embed compliance, security, and best practices directly into your workflows.

• Increased Productivity: Automate low-value infrastructure tasks, dramatically accelerating your time-to-market.

• Collective Innovation: Access continuous platform improvements driven by our vibrant customer community.

• Operational Scalability: Easily scale operations with standardized, repeatable, and efficient infrastructure.

• Reduced Risk: Ensure compliance and mitigate risks with automated security and governance guardrails.

• Talent Retention: Tap into our deep pool of cloud expertise, reducing the challenge and cost associated with maintaining specialized infrastructure talent.

Platform Capabilities:

• Infrastructure Standardization: Centralized and standardized management of resources using vetted templates.

• Continuous Delivery: Optimized deployment processes powered by ArgoCD, with built-in governance and best practices.

• Security & Compliance Automation: Automated security scanning, centralized secrets management, and proactive drift detection.

• Golden Path Templates: Pre-approved deployment patterns to streamline application delivery.

• Observability: Comprehensive monitoring and proactive alerting for a stable operations

• 24/7 Incident Response: Always available support for incident management and resolution.

Getting Started

We begin with comprehensive discovery workshops to understand your current workflows and pain points, shaping an initial platform tailored to your needs. From there, our implementation process smoothly transitions existing workloads to our optimized platform, with extensive developer onboarding and continuous collaboration.

Welcome to CloudOps by Playground—empowering your teams, simplifying your infrastructure, and accelerating your innovation.