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Getting Started

To get started with Omnistrate is really simple and just need to follow 3-easy self-onboarding steps:

  • Signup: Go here and follow the instructions
  • Grant permissions: To configure your own account, you can grant us a security role through different mechanisms to provision infrastructure on your behalf. If you wish to host on our account, you can skip this step.
    • For AWS, we have a 1-click integration to create your Cloudformation stack. For step-by-step instructions, here is a link to the video
    • Alternatively, you can follow our terraform-setup guide to create a security role. For step-by-step instructions, here is a link to the video
  • Configure your SaaS:
    • Go to the dashboard here
    • Choose "build from composes spec" option
    • Paste your compose spec and hit "Build Service"

Note

If you encounter any error due to already created AWSLoadBalancerControllerIAMPolicy policy, please review your current policy and merge it against our policy as mentioned here

For more information on how to build with your compose spec, please see this

For any questions or help, please reach out to us at support@omnistrate.com and we will be happy to help.

Getting started video

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SaaS Lifecycle

At Omnistrate we have divided SaaS lifecycle into 3 phases: build phase where you build your SaaS, access phase for when your customers access your service and lastly the operate phase, for you to effectively manage and monitor it.

  • Build: First, you can use Omnistrate to build your SaaS by bringing your application and configuring your SaaS.
  • Access: Once built and released, you can distribute and allow your customers to access your SaaS.
  • Operate: As you scale and onboard many customers, this phase will allow your platform teams to operate your SaaS.

For more details, please see this

Hello world example using PostgreSQL

One of the easiest ways to get going is to leverage compose templates. You can existing templates or create your own. Here is a sample compose spec to create single writer Postgres SaaS:

version: '3.9'
services:
  postgres:
    image: postgres
    ports:
      - '5432:5432'
    environment:
      - SECURITY_CONTEXT_USER_ID=999
      - SECURITY_CONTEXT_GROUP_ID=999
      - POSTGRES_USER=username
      - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=password
      - PGDATA=/var/lib/postgresql/data/dbdata
    volumes:
      - ./data:/var/lib/postgresql/data

In the above case:

  • We are using only 1 service component (postgres) with the standard image (postgres) and infra (port: 5432)
  • Given no account config is specified, the infrastructure for your SaaS is provisioned in the Omnistrate account
  • There are a few static environment variables that will be injected into the runtime process like POSTGRES_USER

In general, the compose config allows you to specify:

  • Service components and relationship across them
  • Image(s)
  • Environment
  • Infrastructure
  • Capabilities
  • Account config information
  • Enable/Disable Integrations
  • SaaS experience (input/output params with constraints)

For detailed setup instructions, please visit this page

Here is the generated Postgres SaaS from the above spec looks like:

Basic Postgres SaaS Basic Postgres SaaS tablestakes

In addition, Omnistrate fully automates scaling, monitoring, billing, observability, patching and much more.

As next steps:

  • To learn more on what we do, visit this page
  • To learn more about how to build your SaaS using Omnistrate, visit this page