What is configure8?

Profile

The primary benefits of configure8 include:

• Accelerating productivity via Self-Serve Actions
• Achieving high standards programmatically via Scorecards
• Organizing everything in a Universal Catalog
• Flexibility to customize your portal to fit the unique contours of your enterprise
• Rapid time-to-value and limited maintenance
• Consultative success and support

Focus

configure8 supports mid- and large enterprises around the world with hundreds to many thousands of engineers.

Background

configure8 began building its solution in 2022. It is venture-backed, and built by a team of engineers and seasoned leaders with backgrounds at Google, Microsoft, AWS, AOL, and NASA.

configure8 main features

configure8 offers three primary features:

Self-Serve Actions by configure8 liberate developers from bottlenecks and cognitive load while improving standardization and reuse. configure8’s no-code UI (and API) makes it easy for developers to create something new as well perform day-2 and delete operations the right way by abstracting away the complexity of discovering and using predefined actions. The unique depth of information and relationship linkages in configure8 as well as the ability to externally fetch data enables developers to accomplish actions with minimal cognitive load and context switching. configure8 couples with customers’ existing tool chains and approval, validation, and execution processes.

Scorecards by configure8 enable enterprises to achieve high standards for compliance with security, reliability, and architecture standards with programmatic ease. Leverage configure8’s industry-leading library of pre-built checks as well as create custom checks to define standards that fit your enterprise’s needs. Motivate teams with weekly progress reports, leaderboards, next best action identification, and more. Even block deployments that fail selected standards.

Universal Catalog: A complete and accurate catalog forms the foundation of any portal. configure8’s Universal Catalog enables teams to rapidly build a living sociotechnical knowledge map of their team and software – applications, their services, data pipelines and ML jobs, environments, and resources – and key information about each item like metrics, costs, dependencies, tooling, and more. Tool, cloud and teams information is easily ingested via credential-based plugins and/or via API, and changes are automatically reflected. configure8 is easily customized: ingest and schematize any data, apply custom calculations, and present it via customizable widgets, tabs and tables. Tailor the catalog hierarchy, create custom views, even apply your branding and color palette. configure8’s universal catalog also enables Collaborative Cost Management, so developers can see the costs of the services and environments they own, understand what drives those costs, and safely make changes where appropriate.