I had the opportunity to work with Keboola as code on an internal project. Despite the fact that this tool is in early access, I was excited! Because I love automation and this tool seems to be successful.
Which of you have also tried KaC? What are your feelings about it? :)
Hi Vaclav,
I looked at Keboola as Code. I don't understand for whom and what it is intended for. I think it's the second extreme compared to the current web UI (for business users).
@Radek Hajek For me personally, it's all about the ability to version a project in a git repository. If you are only making changes to the project via KaC, you can set up a review over pull request so that no changes are made to the project until they are approved.
Yes @Radek Hajek , it has a bit different audience.
The majority of users do interact with the platform via rich UI. The second audience is a direct programatic connection via API, for instance controlling orchestrator by own scheduler, automating project deployments, etc.
We are now attracting the third audience, which are companies with strong concept of "infrastructure as a code fully controlled via CI/CD pipelines". Secondly, agencies and partners who want to speed up a deployment and code version control across their deployments, such as marketing agencies, product teams, etc.
There are though indisputable benefits of such for every team (not only hard-core geek teams...). For instance, controlling the version of the pipeline definition via code, extracted in the repository and archived that way means that companies can establish a practice of controlled deployments of changes for mission-critical pipelines.
General criticism of such approach though is that the knowledge for repository handling, CI/CD pipelines and git-versioning is not for everyone, it is definitely off business users and it's an overhead that might not be necessary. Our platform has built in versioning, dev branches and other ways to safely work within teams already.
TLDR: another way to interact with the platform for a specific audience :)