What is VistaOps®?
VistaOps® is our cloud-native DevSecOps platform for building, deploying, and managing federal applications. It brings pre-integrated continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, infrastructure as code, security tools, and monitoring into a common environment so teams can start delivery without assembling every component from scratch.
Who is VistaOps designed for?
VistaOps is designed for federal agencies and application teams that need a repeatable way to set up development environments, deploy software, and manage security across applications. It can support a new system or the modernization of an existing one, with the implementation tailored to the team’s cloud environment and delivery needs.
How does VistaOps help teams start delivering software faster?
VistaOps provides a ready-to-deploy environment with integrated CI/CD, infrastructure as code, security, and monitoring. Automating environment setup and deployment reduces the manual work involved in onboarding an application. The time to launch depends on the application’s architecture, security requirements, existing tools, and agency approvals.
What DevSecOps tools and practices are included in VistaOps?
Our fact sheet identifies GitHub Actions for CI/CD, Terraform for infrastructure as code, Amazon EKS for Kubernetes, Argo CD for GitOps deployment, and AWS services for systems and traffic management as elements of the core architecture. We scope the actual components and integrations for each deployment.
How does VistaOps automate infrastructure and deployments?
VistaOps uses infrastructure as code to provision and configure environments consistently and GitOps practices to manage deployments. These approaches can reduce repetitive setup, configuration drift, and manual handoffs as teams move changes through their delivery process.
How does VistaOps incorporate security and compliance?
VistaOps embeds security tools and monitoring in the development and deployment workflow so teams can identify issues earlier and maintain visibility into changes. We configure controls and evidence around the agency’s policies and authorization requirements. Using VistaOps does not, by itself, authorize an application or guarantee compliance.
Which cloud environments can VistaOps support?
VistaOps is designed for multi-cloud use, with our fact sheet identifying AWS GovCloud and Azure as supported environments. Its Kubernetes-native architecture and configurable components can be adapted to the agency’s target environment. We confirm specific cloud services, connectivity, and security requirements during solution design.
Can VistaOps support many applications, microservices, and pipelines?
Yes. VistaOps is designed to scale across multiple environments and application teams. The product page describes support for hundreds of microservices and CI/CD pipelines. Capacity, performance, and operating responsibilities should be validated for the agency’s workload and deployment architecture.
Does VistaOps replace an agency’s existing DevSecOps tools?
VistaOps brings commonly needed tools into an integrated starting environment. We work with each agency to identify which existing tools and processes should be retained, connected, or replaced. The answer depends on its application portfolio, standards, licenses, and security requirements.
What experience informed the development of VistaOps?
We developed VistaOps using our experience supporting the USCIS Electronic Immigration System (ELIS). In that work, our teams managed more than 225 production updates a year across more than 15 cloud environments and supported over 100 CI/CD pipelines and 100 microservices. These figures describe our ELIS delivery experience; they are not measured results from a VistaOps customer deployment.
How can an agency evaluate VistaOps for its environment?
We can demonstrate the platform and review your applications, current delivery tools, cloud environment, security requirements, and onboarding process. That discussion helps define the implementation scope, integrations, responsibilities, and a realistic deployment schedule. Contact us to schedule a demo.
What is the Technology Readiness Level (TRL) of VistaOps?
VistaOps is currently assessed at Technology Readiness Level 5 (TRL 5). This means the platform’s core components and integrated DevSecOps capabilities have been validated in a relevant environment, demonstrating the feasibility of the solution beyond an early prototype. VistaOps combines CI/CD automation, Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes, GitOps, security tooling, and observability into a working platform architecture.
How is VistaOps different from assembling open-source and commercial DevSecOps tools ourselves?
VistaOps is more than a collection of DevSecOps tools. It provides a pre-integrated, reusable delivery foundation that brings together infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, GitOps deployment, security controls, observability, and cloud configuration into a consistent operating model. Rather than requiring each application team to independently select, integrate, secure, configure, and maintain these components, VistaOps provides reusable patterns, automation, and baseline configurations that can be adapted to the agency’s environment.
