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Vela for Platform Engineers

Deliver golden‑path workflows for developers while keeping control over cost, security, and performance.

For a deeper perspective, read Why platform engineering should own the database experience.

Enterprise guardrails

Quotas, RBAC, audit, IAM, and policy controls built‑in.

Developer self‑service

Provision databases and clones via API/Studio with least‑privilege access.

Observability

Grafana/Prometheus dashboards and query insights for capacity planning.

Ephemeral environments

Instant branches per pipeline with automatic cleanup.

BYOC

Run in your cloud accounts with predictable $/vCPU and zero egress inside VPC.

Architecture overview

  • Control plane issues clone requests and policies.
  • Data plane runs Postgres pools, autoscaling, and live migrations.
  • Per‑tenant isolation with network policies and KMS‑encrypted volumes.

Operations

  1. Define org/project quotas and RBAC roles.
  2. Configure masking templates and snapshot cadence.
  3. Expose API/CLI to developers via internal portal.
  4. Pipe metrics to Grafana/Prometheus; set SLO alerts.
  5. Enable auto‑cleanup and TTL policies to control cost.