Runtime Platform Tech Radar

tech-radar.json

[
  {
    "name": "EKS",
    "ring": "adopt",
    "quadrant": "platform services",
    "isNew": "FALSE",
    "description": "Elastic Kubernetes Service"
  },
  {
    "name": "EC2",
    "ring": "adopt",
    "quadrant": "platform services",
    "isNew": "FALSE",
    "description": "Ec2, Load Balancer, Route53, KMS, "
  },
  {
    "name": "AWS X-Ray",
    "ring": "trial",
    "quadrant": "platform services",
    "isNew": "TRUE",
    "description": "Traces"
  },
  {
    "name": "Tech Radar",
    "ring": "trial",
    "quadrant": "techniques",
    "isNew": "FALSE",
    "description": "Runtime Platform Tech Radar. Build and operate your own Tech Radar."
  },
  {
    "name": "GitOps",
    "ring": "trial",
    "quadrant": "techniques",
    "isNew": "FALSE",
    "description": "Operations by Pull Request"
  },
  {
    "name": "Service Mesh",
    "ring": "assess",
    "quadrant": "techniques",
    "isNew": "FALSE",
    "description": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "Deployer Images",
    "ring": "trial",
    "quadrant": "techniques",
    "isNew": "TRUE",
    "description": "Containerise deployment tools for deployment repeatability and portability."
  },
  {
    "name": "Self-service deployment pipelines",
    "ring": "adopt",
    "quadrant": "techniques",
    "isNew": "FALSE",
    "description": "Do it!"
  },
  {
    "name": "Imperative installs",
    "ring": "hold",
    "quadrant": "techniques",
    "isNew": "FALSE",
    "description": "Consider declarative desired state first (see GitOps)"
  },
  {
    "name": "ArgoCD",
    "ring": "trial",
    "quadrant": "tools",
    "isNew": "TRUE",
    "description": "GitOps Operator"
  },
  {
    "name": "Kyverno",
    "ring": "trial",
    "quadrant": "tools",
    "isNew": "FALSE",
    "description": "Kubernetes Native Policy as Code"
  },
  {
    "name": "Prometheus",
    "ring": "trial",
    "quadrant": "tools",
    "isNew": "FALSE",
    "description": "Monitoring system for collecting, transforming and storing metrics"
  },
  {
    "name": "Alert Manager",
    "ring": "trial",
    "quadrant": "tools",
    "isNew": "TRUE",
    "description": "Part of the prometheus framework for routing and managing alerts"
  },
  {
    "name": "AWS OpenSearch",
    "ring": "hold",
    "quadrant": "platform services",
    "isNew": "FALSE",
    "description": "For traces and logs"
  },  
  {
    "name": "Aqua Scanner",
    "ring": "adopt",
    "quadrant": "tools",
    "isNew": "FALSE",
    "description": "On prem tool for 'official' scanning of container images"
  },
  {
    "name": "SRE Project Catalog",
    "ring": "adopt",
    "quadrant": "tools",
    "isNew": "FALSE",
    "description": "Account and Cluster facts. Available in Dev and Nonprod (https://confluence.dev.aws.singtel.com/display/SRE/Project+Catalog)"
  },
  {
    "name": "Terraform",
    "ring": "hold",
    "quadrant": "tools",
    "isNew": "FALSE",
    "description": "Doesn't enable easy rollbacks or refactoring"
  },
  {
    "name": "Open Telemetry",
    "ring": "trial",
    "quadrant": "tools",
    "isNew": "TRUE",
    "description": "Using EKS Addons, then patching"
  },
  {
    "name": "Cloud Development Kit (CDK)",
    "ring": "trial",
    "quadrant": "languages & frameworks",
    "isNew": "TRUE",
    "description": "Enables rollbacks. Fully supported by AWS."
  },
  {
    "name": "AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK)",
    "ring": "trial",
    "quadrant": "languages & frameworks",
    "isNew": "TRUE",
    "description": "For kube-native management of AWS services"
  },
  {
    "name": "Springboot",
    "ring": "adopt",
    "quadrant": "languages & frameworks",
    "isNew": "FALSE",
    "description": "Supported framework for web apps"
  },
  {
    "name": "Python",
    "ring": "assess",
    "quadrant": "languages & frameworks",
    "isNew": "FALSE",
    "description": "Some recent challenges with versioning and pypi when using in prod"
  },
  {
    "name": "Golang",
    "ring": "trial",
    "quadrant": "languages & frameworks",
    "isNew": "FALSE",
    "description": ""
  },
  {
    "name": "Bash",
    "ring": "hold",
    "quadrant": "languages & frameworks",
    "isNew": "FALSE",
    "description": ""
  }
]