# Landing Zones-as-a-Service Provide developers, QA, cloud operations, and all cloud users with self-service access to landing zones using proven templates with guardrails included. .webp) ## Why Landing Zones-as-a-Service? Every modern application needs a landing zone to run, so why is the process of provisioning landing zones so complicated? Enterprises that streamline the process of setting up landing zones by providing self-service for developer and cloud operation teams gain significant benefits. ### Increase Developer Productivity EaaS empowers developers to deploy the environments they need, when they need them. ### Reduce Overhead Reusable environment templates reduce the need for platform and cloud teams to provision environments repeatedly. ### Simplify Maintenance Platform teams now update and maintain configurations via a set of reusable templates. ### Operational Efficiency Automate setup, reducing the time and manual effort required to create landing zones. ### Enhanced Security Pre-configured security policies ensure that all cloud resources are secure from day one. ## Unique Rafay Capabilities for Landing Zones-as-a-Service Dozens of enterprise platform teams leverage these unique features to rapidly build landing zones-as-a-service automation with Rafay and delight their developers. ### Environment Lifecycle Management #### Hybrid and Multi-cloud Support Support for running environments across any cloud platforms the organization uses, including on-premise/private clouds. #### Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Support for Terraform or GitOps first approaches, including private Git repos and Crossplane. #### Automated Environment Upgrades Centrally orchestrate environment updates en-masse or in a phased manner (staged roll out), or safely delegate to the downstream teams. #### Centralized Environment Visibility Use centralized dashboards across accounts and clouds to track environment use, minimizing waste (Q1 2024 ROADMAP). #### Integration with IaC Tooling (TFC/TFE) Turnkey integration with existing customer tools (Terraform Cloud, Terraform Enterprise) for secure storage of state files, agents, etc. #### Centralized Audit Logging and Export Log “who did what?” (across platform teams and downstream users), and export audits to an external system to track compliance. #### Out of the Box Governance Use native/first-class guardrails (access, policy enforcement, add-on management, cluster lifecycle management, etc.). #### Seamless Onboarding Experience Automate the E2E provisioning workflow for a new team, including creating an account, credentials, VPC, security groups, and more. #### Configurable Pre and Post Hooks Automate actions to run either before or after environment provisioning or updates, such as TF code scans or cost estimation. ### Governance #### Optimization of Cloud Costs Enforce policies such as scheduled environment creation, or automatic deprovisioning after TTL expiration (Q1 2024 ROADMAP). #### Drift Detection and Health Assessment Ability to scan and proactively flag environments that have drifted from the specified TF configuration (Q1 2024 ROADMAP). #### Visualization of Namespace Resources Ability to destroy/deprovision unused environments to reduce cloud sprawl and spend. ### Developer Self-Service #### Flexible Interface Support Ability to consume the platform through the preferred interface: UI, Backstage, GitOps or CMDBs (e.g., ServiceNow). #### Simple Process to Request Environments No time-consuming ticket-driven process where the Platform team has to manually provision clusters. #### Visualization of Resources Ability for end users to quickly look at resources in the environments and perform operations via the UI. This is especially useful for non-savvy users. #### Visibility into Environment Updates Which environments are running? Which environments have been shut down because of a configured policy (e.g., TTL, Schedule, etc.). #### Streamlined App Deployment “Substitution variables” leverage output parameters of an environment resource to be used as input variables to the application being deployed. ### Multi-Tenancy #### Central Platform Supporting Multiple Teams Central platform that can deliver “cluster as a service” to multiple teams, with access to resources controlled by user identity. #### Version Controlled Artifacts Ensure that only blessed versions of templates can be used and older versions are retired, allowing demonstration of compliance. #### Curated List of Templates Centrally define templates, and share them selectively with downstream users (Developers, SREs) in a consistent manner. #### Support for Template “Overrides” Permit end users to override environment template configurations selectively, as deemed permissible by the platform team. ### Deployment Options #### SaaS and Self-hosted Self-hosted air-gapped option may be necessary for highly regulated industries. ## Templates Coming Soon Downloadable templates are coming soon. So, to get started providing self-service access to cloud environments in your enterprise, talk to us about one of the templates below. ### Stateless, Springboot (Java) Application Env Environment Kubernetes Template for stateless, SpringBoot (Java) apps with Postgres-RDS [Download Template](https://mailto:Info@rafay.co/solutions/landing-zones-as-a-service#) ### Multi-tenant ArgoCD Template for ArgoCD pipelines across multiple teams and clusters [Download Template](https://mailto:Info@rafay.co/solutions/landing-zones-as-a-service#) ### Stateless, Springboot (Java) Application Env Environment Kubernetes AI Workbench with KubeFlow on AWS [Download Template](https://mailto:Info@rafay.co/solutions/landing-zones-as-a-service#) ### Stateless, Django (Python) Application Env Environment Kubernetes Template for stateless, Django (Python) apps with Postgres-RDS [Download Template](https://mailto:Info@rafay.co/solutions/landing-zones-as-a-service#) ### Stateless, NodeJS Application Env Environment Kubernetes Template for stateless, Node (JavaScript) apps with Postgres-RDS [Download Template](https://mailto:Info@rafay.co/solutions/landing-zones-as-a-service#) ### Stateless, GoLang Application Env Environment Kubernetes Template for stateless, GoLang apps with Postgres-RDS [Download Template](https://mailto:Info@rafay.co/solutions/landing-zones-as-a-service#) ## Whitepaper ### Hybrid Cloud Meets Kubernetes Learn how to Streamline Kubernetes Ops in Hybrid Clouds with AWS & Rafay [DOWNLOAD](https://mailto:Info@rafay.co/resources/white-papers/hybrid-cloud-meets-kubernetes-how-to-reduce-complexity-with-amazon-eks-eks-d-and-rafay-systems) ## Start a conversation with Rafay Talk with Rafay experts to assess your infrastructure, explore your use cases, and see how teams like yours operationalize AI/ML and cloud-native initiatives with self-service and governance built in. 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