Release AI
Infrastructure
devops assistant
SHOW HN2023
How HN took it
11 positive, 33 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 12 critical, out of 56 comments about the project. Thread score -0.02.
Idea: 7 for, 5 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 2 againstExecution: 1 for, 1 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful for AWS billing questions and natural-language CloudWatch alerts
From 1 comment
Congratulations on the launch. I own and run a DevOps consulting company and being able to ask AWS billing questions or create CloudWatch notifications in human language is gonna…
nodesocket on HN
Talk-to-Kubernetes demo seen as useful
From 1 comment
I like the “talk to kubernetes” demo I can see that being useful and perhaps a new normal for command line interactions with tools. I wonder if it can help with security…
quickthrower2 on HN
Objections
Hallucinations make answers unreliable, such as wrong cluster health claims
From 1 comment
Release engineer here. That's an excellent question, and we worry about it all the time. The AI "seems" authoritative, but it can't even add 1+1 sometimes :crying-emoji:. We've…
regiswilson on HN
Read-only access to infrastructure is a privacy and security concern
From 2 comments
"Hello database, why are you slow?" /s Serious feedback: * Support Digital Ocean (currently only AWS supported) * Even read-only access is scary... it's not clear if that means…
welder on HN... You seriously just tell people to deploy a stack with your IAM role that "has the least permissions possible" good luck lol. Another thin wrapper around open-ai that doesn't…
bfeynman on HN
Only supports AWS and Kubernetes, not other clouds
From 1 comment
"Hello database, why are you slow?" /s Serious feedback: * Support Digital Ocean (currently only AWS supported) * Even read-only access is scary... it's not clear if that means…
welder on HN
Requests
Support DigitalOcean and other cloud providers
From 1 comment
"Hello database, why are you slow?" /s Serious feedback: * Support Digital Ocean (currently only AWS supported) * Even read-only access is scary... it's not clear if that means…
welder on HN
Import existing infrastructure state and manage it from the dashboard
From 1 comment
You're basically coming for my job as an SRE/Platarch but great documentation you've covered a lot of scenarios and in a pretty thorough manner. You should figure out a way to…
swozey on HN
Scheduled reports and alerts such as daily spend reports
From 1 comment
Love it. Funny, while I was reading the site, I was wondering if you could build crons on it - and that was the last example :-) Some cool things I'd like to try would be:…
samstave on HN
Questions
How is customer data used, retained, or used for training?
From 1 comment
Looks cool! A bit hesitant to try it out, though. Can you talk a bit about your privacy and security practices? Do you (or do you plan to) use customer data (or prompts/results)…
temp9988109 on HN
How are hallucinations handled?
From 1 comment
I like the idea, but how do you handle hallucinations? E.g. when the user asks about their AWS bill, how can they be sure the numbers they get are accurate?
Michelangelo11 on HN
Is it a standalone product or tied to environments as a service?
From 1 comment
I like the concept, but would love to hear if it's a feature or some long-term product vision. It looks like the main business is Environment as a Service. Do you see ReleaseAI…
jakozaur on HN
Alternatives named
CloudMapper, CloudCraft, Hava, Lucid and other AWS diagram tools
From 1 comment
There's this: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/solutions/latest/workload-discovery-on-aws/architecture-overview.html And also CloudMapper, CloudCraft, Hava, Lucid, Hyperglance,…
tolidano on HN
Splunk-style log analytics tools
From 1 comment
For the first one, maybe an Intrusion Detection "Alert me anytime someon attempts to login to [SENSITIVE SYSTEM] - Can this do SPLUNK like log analytics? "Give me a table of all…
samstave on HN