Life before Facets
Purplle took steps to break free from this problem :
First, they implemented a checklist manifesto. However, it didn't scale beyond a point.
They searched for vendors- who promised enhancements, but only fractional and non-scalable.
The obvious next step was infrastructure automation on which Purplle started its journey. Suyash reached out to peer companies with past infrastructure automation experience. His observation was as follows.
"What I see is a bunch of scripts written in Ansible or Terraform. But how to use those scripts was still tribal knowledge." - Suyash.
In one such conversation, one of the CTO community members recommended Facets. During the evaluation period, Facets showed how Purplle's Dev and Ops teams can manage their infrastructure better, created a solid collaborative ecosystem between multiple teams, and aligned with Purplle's tools and security requirements.
How Facets helped Purplle scale DevOps
Post the evaluation period, Purplle migrated their complete storefront within a month to Facets - from development to sandbox and production environments. In subsequent weeks, additional features like out-of-the-box Alerts, Dashboards, and RBAC were adopted organically within the teams.