// THE CENTROS AI CLOUD STACK

A TECH STACK FOR MODERN, INDEPENDENT AI SYSTEMS

The Centros AI Cloud Stack has everything that business technologists need to deliver AI innovation at the speed of light — but without being forced into any vendor lock-ins or bad compromises over on where data is stored and processed.

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What is centros?

The Centros AI Cloud Stack is a collection of “source available” software components and processes for building and operating decentralised, dynamic and scalable business applications with embedded artificial intelligence (AI).

 

The framework is build upon the CNAB specification and effectively consists of a tailored combination of (3rd party and self-developed) cloud-native software & infrastructure components, as well as a collection of DevOps and MLOps tools and processes, all engineered and configured with love and precision to be working hand in hand for a seamless user experience of unseen end-to-end automation.

 

To express the fact that centros uses Kubernetes as the underlying container orchestration, and to express our affinity with the Kubernetes and CNCF community, we have decided to use c5s as it‘s official nickname (although, people tell us that ‚centros‘ is more fun to pronounce).

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Why choose centros?

centros helps modern technology teams who innovate around distributed and containerized AI software systems to do their work faster, with less pain and more fun.


As a team of Data Scientists, Machine Learning Engineers, Software Engineers and Cloud Engineers, we got tired of doing the same things over and over again when developing custom AI-centric business software: spinning up Cloud infrastructure, managing Kubernetes, building and maintaining custom DevOps toolchains and processes, configuring and maintaining a microservice backbone with proper monitoring and observability, as well as looking after a myriad of other things.


The list is endless.
It’s boring, frustrating, error-prone and slow.

We wanted these pains to go away, so that the team can focus on the actual AI innovation and collaborate better, faster and with more fun.


That‘s why we‘ve built centros!

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Features

Unified and extensible Application Management framework
Kubernetes native
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Full Audit trail
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Routing and Observability
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Works with all major Cloud providers
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GitOps Workflows for ML components
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Multi Cluster and Cloud Deployment
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We have built centros for those who...

We understand that pain. We’ve had it ourselves, a while ago. This is why we have packaged everything together that innovation teams need to get kick-started on AI-centric software systems development. Instead of spending weeks and months of upfront investments into building environments and toolchains, you can spin up centros within a few minutes only. We can make that statement with full confidence because we are using centros ourselves, in our daily business operations. And love it more and more with every day.

We find that teams spend roughly a third if not more of their time on managing the burdens of container orchestration, event-driven communiation and keeping everyhing else in good shape. We believe that such complexitites should be abstracted away, so that innovation teams can spend a maximum amount of time on what they’re really passionate about: write cool code, training new AI models and all the other fany stuff.

It’s this typical situation: the developers have finished coding and want to release it into production, but the DevOps toolchain or the Kubernetes cluster is broken and needs to be fixed first. We believe that the speed of innovation should only be limited by the brightness of people who invent it, not the boring technical problems that modern Cloud infrastructures and DevOps processes somethimes come with.

We know it from our own experience, building and maintaining infrastructure and DevOps tools and processes is expensive. But what’s even worse is keeping everything in good shape, i.e. the ongoing maintenance. Through its carefully crafted integrations, centros minimizes such efforts in a sustainable way.

Time is money. That’s even more relevant for companies who are in direct competition. Time-to-innovation has become a fundamental success criteria for successful companies to outperform. We want to contribute to that situation, by giving you an integrated environment that allows you to deploy at the speed of light, as easy as a walk in the park and as reliable as Fort Knox.

centros not only offers the development and deployment environments, but also spins up production environments at the blink of an eye. As a result, productive AI- and Non-AI workloads can be deployed productive from zero to hero, with the ability to tear everything down after completion. This is a highly cost effective way of modern computing in any Multi- or Hybrid-Cloud environments.

We see it every day: many companies get cut off from software-related innovation because they are unable to attract the scarce talent. With centros, you don’t need to hire an army of Cloud and DevOps engineers, as the main complexities have already been taken care of in the background. Even if that’s not enough, we offer Professional Services and train your existing staff, removing the talent-related bottlenecks for you to get started with AI-centric software innovation.

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Designed for you

c5s offers a lightning fast and efficient but safe and reliable way of managing AI-centric Business Software, all the way from composition, deployment down to lifecycle operations.

No matter what business or maturity level you’re in, centros offers a compelling range of features and benefits for establishing successful software-centric business applications that will become the core of future digital business.

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