Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) specialist, Pivotal Software has released the commercial version of its Concourse, an open-source automated software delivery tool that enhances enterprise application security.
The San Francisco-based company is an offshoot of software development consulting firm Pivotal Labs, which was previously acquired by EMC.
Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) customers can increase the power of their platform automation with the availability of Concourse for Pivotal Cloud Foundry , the system for setting up and running continuous integration and delivery pipelines in and for Pivotal Cloud Foundry.
Pivotal claims that the company patches critical vulnerabilities anywhere in the platform—embedded operating system, middleware, Cloud Foundry component—typically within 48 hours of a fix becoming available. With Concourse for PCF, customers can set up pipelines that detect and deploy that patch to their PCF installations automatically, often with zero downtime.
Rigorous automated testing and continuously updated platforms improve a company's security posture while also freeing up operators to focus on delivering new features to application developers—allowing IT organizations to focus on creating value-added software for their customers.
Pivotal Cloud Foundry users can repair vulnerable operating systems and application stacks consistently within hours of patch availability. In addition to leveraging Concourse to update the platform itself, Concourse users can continuously deploy their own applications.
Ultimately, PCF customers can load, test, and apply security patches to their entire cloud platform with complete automation, said the company.
Josh Stone, Senior DevOps Platform Engineer, Verizon
Before Concourse, we had trouble keeping all of our environments consistent, and that led to a poor developer experience. If an app pushed in one environment but failed to stage in another because the Java buildpack was different, that’s a poor developer experience and that’s something that would slip through the cracks before we brought in Concourse.
