DevOps process management company Transposit announced Monday new platform capabilities that are developer-friendly but built to empower any employees, even those with less technical skills.

Transposit’s platform capabilities are designed to bridge the gap between engineering and information technology teams to work better together by enabling them to communicate more readily and “bring calm to the chaos.” Key features of the platform include a no-code runbook builder which allows engineers to build sophisticated workflows across the DevOps toolchain without needing to write any code or learn specialized workflow tools.

There are also new triggers for those runbooks, which are routine compilations of procedures and operations, to enable flexible, event-driven automation. And finally, there’s an activity feed that allows expanded visibility into operational events.

“The new functionality we’ve added to our orchestration platform transforms the landscape for DevOps and IT Ops teams,” said Divanny Lamas, chief executive of Transposit. “Keeping applications up and running when the demand for digital is at an all-time high is a monumental task.”

With the no-code runbook builder, operations teams can throw together automated workflows based on what needs to happen in various scenarios without the need to know any particular language using a series of triggers. This allows the generation of human-in-the-loop automated workflows from within the platform that allows any user to participate and add value.

If more complex or sophisticated tooling is needed, developers can customize the workflow with common programming languages, including Python, Javascript and SQL.

The builder provides hundreds of pre-built actions that teams can use out of the box and connect to their runbooks, reducing manual drudgery and letting developers and workers get back to what really builds value for the company.

“By easing the challenges that come with continuous change, we give engineers control back over their days while helping them succeed at their jobs,” said Lamas.

With new trigger capabilities, workflows can now expand their automation usage by connecting runbooks to external events, as well as internal events. That allows them to be more flexible about their event-driven responses.

For example, that can include what branches to automate, whether an employee be informed when a central processing unit chip goes over 90% usage or a disk space falls below a certain threshold, and cleanup that needs to happen if so. Some things need human intervention, while others are mundane and can be automated by machine processes.

That allows additional ways to combine human interaction with automated actions within runbooks. In this manner, humans can be involved where humans need to be in the loop and when they’re not needed, they can keep doing things that make them the most valuable.

Finally, the new activity feed in Transposit opens up broader visibility across the entire DevOps stack, making it easier to see everything going on when events are happening without making it a chaotic flood of issues all at once.

The activity feed provides a high-level view of what services need attention by pulling out important feeds from every tool such as alerts, requests, integration and deployment as well as other high-level activity. That allows the team to see everything that’s going on but also access other granular-level information as it’s happening and see who’s taking certain actions.

It also permits a full audit trail in order to provide a proper post-mortem after an incident. Finally, there’s a customizable export panel that can do a full dump of all information related to activity related to a period of time to help perform root-cause analysis.

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