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Vela for Platform Engineers

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

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.