Way to Go -- WAYPOINT - REVIEW - 2022
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Waypoint by Hashicorp makes the experience of the developers smooth and easy by integrating with various platforms like Elastic Kubernetes service (EKS) and Kubernetes and lot of other platforms . In our organisation we are using Waypoint to for building, creating and releasing the code in various Environments like Test, UAT and production .
Pros
- The infrastructure as a code concept is simple and easy to learn in waypoint
- You can integrate waypoint with various code repositories like Github, Gitlab etc
- The waypoint UI provides a interactive interface to view the status of your builds
Cons
- Need more controlling environment which is missing in waypoint
- The UI lags sometimes which can be problematic at times
- It uses HCL language which is outdated , can be moved to YAML which is used by most of the tools
- Need to copy the endpoint everytime from waypoint to my browser
- It forces me to install a server
Most Important Features
- The compatibility of waypoint with almost any cloud provider like GCP, AWS and Azure
- Easy to setup
- The GUI interface is easy to understand and work with
Return on Investment
- ROI was good as team was able to adapt to it in very less time
- We were able to setup our hybrid cloud environment within 2 months smoothly
- we created lot of POCs with waypoint which helped us procure a lot of customers
Alternatives Considered
kvCORE and BoomTown!
Other Software Used
Terraform, by HashiCorp, Google Authenticator, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
