Development & Testing

Test environments that share a network with production, or wait on new hardware, slow every release. On KASTERVO, you build dev and test environments from compute instances inside a KVPC, isolate them with VLANs and firewall rules, and remove them when the work is done.

Common Bottlenecks in Development and Testing

Waiting for Test Capacity

When a new test environment depends on buying or freeing up servers, every round of testing waits for hardware, and the release waits with it.

Test Systems Next to Production

A test server with relaxed access controls and a copy of production data is an easy way in. If it sits on the same network as production, an attacker who gets in is one hop from your live systems.

Environments That Drift Apart

When dev, test and production are built by hand on different hardware, they drift apart, and bugs surface only after release.

What Slow Test Environments Cost

A week spent waiting for a test environment pushes back the release behind it, and testing on the production network to save that week moves the risk onto live systems. On KASTERVO, a test instance is priced per unit like any other compute instance. Isolating it takes a VLAN and firewall rules in your KVPC, with no add-on to buy.

How to Set Up Dev and Test on KASTERVO

Pay-As-You-Go for Short-Lived Environments

Environments you only need for a few weeks or months fit Pay-As-You-Go, which has no one- or three-year term. Its rates are higher and it carries a one-off setup fee per instance, so long-running environments cost less on a Savings Plan.

Isolation From Production

Put dev and test in their own VLANs or in a separate KVPC, and write the firewall rules that decide what can reach production. You choose the VLAN IDs and subnets, so test can mirror production's layout.

Backups Only Where You Need Them

Backups are a paid addition. Add KASTERVO Elastic Backup Service (KEBS), built on Veeam, for the dev systems you can't rebuild from code.

Building Blocks

KVPC for Dev Networks

KASTERVO Virtual Private Cloud (KVPC) gives each environment a private network with an edge firewall, VLANs and subnets you configure, so you can keep test traffic off your production network.
KCI for Test Workloads

KASTERVO Compute Instances (KCI) run inside your KVPC, each sized by RAM, CPU cores and flash storage to the test it runs.
VPN Access for Developers

Developers connect over VPN connections you manage, using IKEv2, OpenVPN, IPsec or WireGuard, and an office can join over a site-to-site VPN.
Estimate Before You Build

The public pricing calculator shows the order of magnitude up front. It isn't binding and excludes software licenses; your proposal has the final figure.
Same Data Center as Production

Test environments run in the same Digital Realty Tier 3 data center as any production workloads you host with us, and their data stays in the EU under GDPR.