As the first-ever Unified DevOps platform, Opsera has always been committed to empowering developers to ship their software faster, smarter, and more safely.
Now Opsera is taking this commitment to the next level by partnering with Databricks, a collaboration that empowers development teams to more efficiently manage complex data, analytics, and machine learning projects.
The successful integration between Databricks and Opsera led to a stronger partnership in October of 2024. Opsera is now part of two Databricks' partner programs: the Built on Databricks Partner Program and Databricks’ Technology Partner Program.
Use Case
Databricks does some of its best work when it's integrated with other platforms, such as Jira or Slack. However, setting up manual configurations takes valuable time and energy, and also may result in human error, which can expose your enterprise to risk.
For example, many teams are moving to Github for source code management. Others are moving to GitHub Actions to standardize and modernize their CI/CD workflows. Neither is an easy migration; manually moving SCM and CI/CD workflows is complex, resource-intensive and time-consuming. In some cases, configuring workflows can take several months to more than a year, considerably slowing development projects.
Large migrations can pose several challenges, including lost data and metadata, potential misconfigurations, legacy workflows that aren’t able to migrate, and important access permission may be changed, accidentally pushing sensitive data into public repositories.
Opsera and Databricks automate the migration and configuration processes, reducing the manual efforts of your developers and ensuring consistency across multiple environments and tools. Opsera allows teams to customize their migrations, enabling developers to choose which items will be migrated, and set up workflows after the migration is complete.
Through Opsera’s platform, Databricks clones and makes templates of existing workflows, allowing teams to easily and automatically set up frequently-used configurations — such as security and quality checks — and integrations, such as with GitHub Jira, ServiceNow, Microsoft Teams, Slack, and others.
Opsera’s automations mean that teams are able to automatically recreate fine-grained access control policies and permissions, keeping credentials and other sensitive information from accidentally being published in unsecure locations.
Benefits
Databricks Repos allow data teams to manage code using Git version control systems such as GitHub, GitLab, or Azure Repos. The ability to track changes over time also helps in maintaining a history of modification.
New customers are able to get up and running immediately, with Databricks seamlessly integrating with the tools each customer uses most.
Ospera’s automated workflows unlock new opportunities to share data inside or outside an organization using Databricks Delta Sharing.
Powered by Databricks, Opsera supports both source code management and pipeline migrations.
Scaling complex environments can get overwhelming. Opsera allows your team to scale with granular control, as well as with built in security and compliance.
Opsera detects and resolves migration issues reducing downtime and disruptions.
Many of Databricks’ existing partners create products for data ingestion, security, governance, and similar functions. However, Databricks wasn’t working with any partners with expertise in Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD).
Opsera is a leader in this space. By adding Opsera’s CI/CD pipelines and Unified Insights to Databricks’ platform, the partnership provides a unique end result for the customer.
Specifically, Opsera’s no code, drag and drop pipelines empower Databricks customers to define the steps that will be automatically executed during each phase of code deployment, allowing them to package and deploy assets in a structured way.
Teams can implement unit tests and integration tests that run automatically whenever there are changes pushed to the repos.
Customers are now able to consistently update their machine learning models with the most recent data inputs by assessing the performance of models in production against new versions before deploying these updated models into the production environment.
Databricks Repos allow data teams to manage code using Git version control systems such as GitHub, GitLab, or Azure Repos. The ability to track changes over time also helps in maintaining a history of modification.
With automated pipelines established through Opsera, teams can deploy updates to their Databricks environments more frequently and without manual intervention, ensuring only validated code reaches production.
Opsera automates repetitive tasks associated with deployment and troubleshooting, which gives customers the time to focus on higher order tasks. CI/CD workflows also align well with agile methodologies, allowing teams to respond quickly to changing business requirements.
Benefits
A single source of truth for data improves developer productivity by providing actionable insights.
Customize data and insights for specific teams, projects, or the entire organization to find areas for improvement and optimize performance at every level.
Open new customer opportunities by demonstrating the integrated value of Databricks and Opsera solutions.
Drive increased Databricks consumption and adoption through expanded use cases
Use Case
Tracking DevOps metrics is essential for development teams. You can’t manage what you can’t measure — and without reliable metrics, teams are unable to track project success, the effectiveness of tools in their technology stacks, or the efficacy of their development workflows.
Yet many development teams struggle to capture, track and share DevOps data from their various tools and stakeholders; many teams don’t even have baseline data.
Data collection is made even more complicated by the deep technology stacks most teams are working with, and by the fact that many teams need to share some metrics with stakeholders across, and outside of, their organizations.
There’s simply no dashboard that’s able to capture the data these teams need. Custom dashboards come with their own challenges: they don’t scale well, and require internal maintenance and troubleshooting — all of which cost teams time and effort they don’t have.
Opsera Unified Insights is a single pane of glass for all an organization’s DevOps and DevSecOps tools, giving teams a single view of their data, covering everything from code commits to deployment in one dashboard. As the only platform that connects all your DevOps tools across the entire software delivery process, Opsera gathers all of your team’s key metrics, like DORA, together in one place.
Opsera uses Databricks to do this: Databricks’ powerful platform pulls information from all of the DevOps tools in your technology stack, no matter how deep that stack is. Databricks’ powerful platform ingests, transforms and contextualizes all of that data so that users can easily spot bottlenecks and other issues in their workflows. Using DataBricks’ Delta Sharing, Opsera is now able to provide this data directly to users’ Business Intelligence (BI) tools, so that your organization can see both progress and opportunities for improvement.
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