Omnistrate Platform Update (February 2025)
🚀 Exciting New Features in Omnistrate
We’re thrilled to introduce several powerful updates that enhance the Omnistrate platform!
Licensing Protection System
We are thrilled to introduce the Omnistrate Licensing Protection System—a robust solution that ensures only authorized, subscribed customers can deploy and use your software while preventing abuse. This is especially crucial for BYOA, BYOC, and on-premises environments. By enforcing subscription compliance, the system prevents unauthorized deployments by ensuring your software does not start without a valid license. See a demo on how the system works and explore our examples.
Scheduled Upgrades
Additionally, we’ve released a new feature that allows you to schedule software upgrades and automate customer notifications and progress tracking. This enhancement streamlines the upgrade process by letting you set the timing for upgrades and automatically informing customers of the status and progress. With real-time updates and seamless communication, you can ensure a smooth and efficient upgrade experience for both your team and customers, saving time and enhancing satisfaction.
Cost Control & Insights
Also, we are thrilled to introduce our new Cost Control and Insights, designed to give you complete visibility and control over your infrastructure and tenant costs. With this powerful tool, you can explore and analyze cost breakdowns, identify optimization opportunities, and take actionable steps to reduce expenses. Leverage savings from strategies like spot-instances and more to maximize cost efficiency. Gain valuable insights to help you optimize and manage your costs, ensuring you stay in control and make the most out of your resources.
Additional Improvements
Custom sidecar support allows you to enhance your SaaS product's functionality without changing its core service. Think of them as add-on containers that run alongside your main application. You can add new features or capabilities by attaching sidecar containers, use existing open-source implementations as sidecars, deploy your own custom implementations as sidecars, and run multiple sidecars with each resource instance.
Learn more about how custom sidecars can enhance your SaaS product by exploring our blog.
Omnistrate's Debug Mode enhances the development experience with Terraform by allowing real-time interaction with ongoing deployments, enabling quick troubleshooting and fixes without needing to restart or upgrade the entire deployment. This feature is ideal for testing Terraform scripts or applying urgent fixes while maintaining deployment continuity, improving efficiency and reducing downtime. See debug mode in action in a demo and learn more by exploring our documentation.
Improved visibility into Omnistrate cost, providing real time visibility into Omnistrate usage.
Improved support for Terraform on GCP, making it easier to set up custom policies to execute Terraform stacks.
Enhanced Terraform developer experience with better error reporting and improved usability.
Reminder: As announced in the previous newsletter, Cloud Shell is now the only supported way to onboard GCP Cloud Accounts into Omnistrate
Other UX improvements:
Improved the consistency of health status, ensuring more reliable and accurate reporting across all systems for better monitoring and management.
Deployments created using Helm, Operators and Kustomize now display endpoints and health status to end customers.
Easily configurable custom Cookie Policy for your SaaS Portal, to easily comply with data privacy regulations.
Explore these new features today and elevate your SaaS experience with Omnistrate!
Revamped Homepage: New Look, Same Mission!
We’re excited to unveil our brand-new homepage, designed to better highlight how Omnistrate empowers SaaS builders to deploy, scale, and streamline cloud operations with ease.
Whether you need BYOA/BYOC solutions, automated upgrades, or other day-2 operations, our new site provides a clearer, more intuitive way to explore what we offer.
👉 Check it out now: omnistrate.com.
Let us know what you think! 🚀
Building Open-Core SaaS
At Omnistrate, we are committed to empowering developers, and our latest updates on our Open Source projects reflect our continued investment in simplifying building SaaS.
🚀 New Releases & Enhancements:
- omnistrate-sdk-go: New release incorporates all the new features, making it easier to integrate Omnistrate's capabilities into your Go applications.
- omnistrate-licensing-sdk-java & omnistrate-licensing-sdk-go: New packages to implement licensing validation in your software.
📌 Practical Examples to Get Started:
To help developers integrate licensing into their applications, we’ve provided working examples:
These examples showcase best practices and real-world usage, making it easy to implement licensing in SaaS products.
We are excited to continue expanding our open-source ecosystem and look forward to community contributions and feedback! 🚀
SaaS Mondays Updates!
We just wrapped up our first-ever SaaS Mondays livestream, diving deep into how AI is transforming SaaS development—from automation and adaptive pricing to AI-native architectures.
SaaS Monday Live Stream: How will AI impact SaaS Builders
🔥 Key Takeaways:
🔹 AI is reshaping SaaS business models, driving smarter feature adoption and personalization.
🔹 Multi-cloud AI deployments are becoming essential for scalability and compliance.
🔹 AI-powered control planes will revolutionize how SaaS builders automate and operate at scale.
If you missed it, don’t worry—you can read the transcript here, or watch the full session recording:
▶️ Watch the full session here
📅 SaaS Mondays Livestream is a biweekly series, featuring top industry experts sharing insights on SaaS innovation. See you in two weeks!
👉 Join here: SaaS Mondays LinkedIn Group
Join the conversation, connect with like-minded professionals, and help shape the future of SaaS!
About Omnistrate
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