No-code DevOps is a simplified way to manage and deploy software on different cloud platforms without needing technical skills.

OpShala uses standard DevOps practices, like running continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines; or using Ansible for managing Linux servers. However, the OpShala desktop application does not expose these technical details to the user. Instead it is a simple GUI through which a business user can specify the software they need and simply access them through a web browser. OpShala manages deployment using existing cloud platforms. The business owner has to sign up to the cloud services.

The OpShala desktop application guides a business user in creating accounts with various cloud service providers (GitHub or GitLab, Digital Ocean, etc.). OpShala creates and uses a Git repository to record the software needs of the business. Cloud services are controlled using Terraform and Ansible (stored in the Git repostiory). All the deployment is run from either GitHub Actions or GitLab Pipelines. The desktop application is like an IT admin for the business.

Our system does not expect you to know any technical details, making the entire experience user-friendly and efficient.

At present, we are working on supporting Wordpress. Other softwares in consideration for the future are Plasmic, ERPNext, Drupal, Magento and many more.

If there are any useful business web applications you would like OpShala to support, we would love to hear from you. You can email us on team@opshala.com.

For the near future OpShala will focus on existing open source software, their plugins, themes and other dependencies. We want to add support for applications written in frameworks like Django, Laravel, Ruby on Rails, etc. as well in the future.

In the near future, we do plan to introduce support for you to be able to deploy your own applications, written in any language, as well as being able to integrate with your existing deployments.

We are currently developing support for Digital Ocean and Linode. We will soon add support for Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

Introducing more cloud providers will definitely be our consideration once the support for existing ones is seamless and stable.

The OpShala desktop app is designed for users with no technical expertise. It is a GUI application where users can select the software they want, register for the cloud services they want to use and OpShala does the rest.

OpShala caters to a diverse range of industries, empowering businesses that rely on cloud-based applications. Specifically, industries such as IT services, e-commerce, media and various businesses seeking to deploy and manage cloud software instances—like WordPress, Magento, ERPNext, among others—can significantly benefit from our simplified deployment solutions.

Moreover, any industry seeking efficient, user-friendly cloud application management without extensive technical expertise can find value in using OpShala.

OpShala takes security during deployments seriously. We implement industry-standard security practices to protect your applications and data.

OpShala uses existing pracitces to harden the Linux servers that it manages. We initally plan to support Debian Linux and add support for Rocky Linux very soon. OpShala uses Ansible to manage the servers. All CI/CD runs on Git hosting platforms like GitHub or GitLab. OpShala uses secrets storage solutions like that available with GitHub Actions or Hashicorp Vault (for GitLab Pipelines).

Currently, our platform primarily focuses on facilitating single server deployments, which can be scaled by upgrading the server resources. We want to support running multiple softwares on a single server, including the core business software, databases, etc. If a business wants to scale their platform, then OpShala will allow them to do so using larger instances.

In the future we want to support more complex deployments, with multiple servers, separate database servers, etc. Individual servers could be of different sizes depending on the scale needed.

Our desktop software, OpShala, is free to use. However, you will need to pay for the cloud resources you use. Those need to be paid directly to the cloud service providers.

OpShala will help you choose the right cloud resources for your business, thereby reducing your costs.