Skpr - pronounced Skipper - is a cloud hosting platform specifically designed to maximise the productivity of development teams by giving them full control right from the command line.
During our consulting engagements with large organisations, we recognised a clear trend; they were moving away from narrow, single-site hosting services and building bespoke platforms on top of Kubernetes to support their multi-site, multi-technology initiatives.
Back in 2016 we had this exact need for hosting our entire portfolio of sites. Throughout this journey we found that providing developers with a simple Command Line Interface (CLI), has led to huge improvements in our team's efficiency and the overall quality of our products.
So, today we’re announcing the public launch of our hosting platform, Skpr. The platform for teams who want a simple command line tool, backed by a range of industry-leading services and supported by our own team of experts.
Why Skpr is different
Many hosting platforms provide a web interface where deployments can be dragged-and-dropped between environments.
While these solutions are more effective for non-developers, they fall short in integration and extendability within the workflow of the developers actually doing the job. Having a Command Line Interface (CLI) means that not only do we provide the same level of control, we provide the flexibility to extend those workflows.
- Scripts - Having a CLI means that Skpr can integrate into existing automation, along with CI tools such as CircleCI.
- Documentation - Complex tasks carried out via a GUI are very difficult to document. CLIs mean you spend less time describing a user interface and more time documenting the actual process.
Control on Command
With a few commands, developers have the control to package, deploy, configure and monitor their services right from the command line.
And while we want to provide a platform that's powerful, reliable and secure, we're passionate about making it easy-to-use as well.
To find out more, visit skpr.io.
