Application onboarding
Developers request a new Application through a standardized workflow instead of opening multiple platform tickets.
GCP-native platform accelerator
Internal Developer Platform for Google Cloud
Standardize Application onboarding, Google Cloud infrastructure, secure delivery, and GKE governance through one repeatable platform workflow.
Vertro helps growing engineering teams launch Applications faster, reduce platform tickets, and embed security into delivery—without spending months building an Internal Developer Platform from scratch.
The problem
Application onboarding on Google Cloud should not be manual.
As engineering teams grow, every new Application requires Google Cloud infrastructure, identity, repositories, delivery workflows, Kubernetes configuration, security controls, and governance. When that work is handled manually, delivery slows, standards drift, and platform teams become support queues.
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01. Slow onboarding
New Applications take days or weeks to reach an approved delivery path.
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02. Inconsistent setup
Infrastructure, identity, Environments, and deployment standards drift across teams.
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03. Repeated manual work
Platform teams repeatedly create access, infrastructure, repositories, pipelines, and Kubernetes configuration.
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04. Platform bottlenecks
Every new Application depends on the same small group of platform and security specialists.
Velocity. Trust. Control.
Everything a new Application needs
Give developers a faster path while platform and security teams retain control through standardized infrastructure, identity, delivery, and governance.
Google Cloud infrastructure
Approved Google Cloud projects, IAM, databases, storage, secrets, and supporting resources are provisioned consistently.
Golden Path repositories
Application and infrastructure repositories are generated from approved templates with standard configuration and delivery workflows.
Environments & namespaces
Development, non-production, production, and optional ephemeral Environments follow consistent namespace, quota, and policy standards.
Identity & access
GKE Workload Identity Federation, GitHub OIDC federation, and least-privilege IAM are built into the delivery path.
Secure delivery
CI/CD, security scanning, artifact controls, GitOps deployment, and platform guardrails are standardized from day one.
Opinionated by design
A GCP-native platform foundation built around proven standards.
Vertro is an implementation-ready Internal Developer Platform accelerator for Google Cloud and GKE. It standardizes Application onboarding, infrastructure provisioning, identity, secure delivery, and governance through reusable workflows implemented inside the customer’s environment.
It works with proven platform patterns such as Terraform or Terragrunt, GitHub Actions, GKE Workload Identity Federation, Helm, Argo CD, Config Sync, and least-privilege IAM. Developers receive a faster self-service path while platform and security teams retain control over standards, approvals, and exceptions.
- Implementation-ready — without spending months assembling a platform from scratch
- Built from proven Google Cloud and GKE delivery patterns
- Customer-owned and purpose-built for Google Cloud — not a generic multi-cloud portal
From Request to Governed Delivery
See how Vertro standardizes Application onboarding on Google Cloud.
Watch the workflow play automatically, or select any step to see how infrastructure, identity, secure delivery, and governance are applied.
Step 01
Request
A developer requests a new Application through a standardized workflow.
What's actually happening
- Capture the Application name, owning team, Workload Type, and target Environment.
- Validate the request against approved platform standards and required metadata.
- Replace disconnected tickets and onboarding forms with one traceable request.
- Developers do not need deep infrastructure or Kubernetes expertise to begin.
Step 02
Provision
Approved Google Cloud infrastructure and platform configuration are generated through controlled workflows.
What's actually happening
- Google Cloud projects, IAM, Cloud SQL, Secret Manager, Cloud Storage, Artifact Registry, and required labels are provisioned from approved patterns.
- Application and infrastructure repositories are generated from Golden Path templates.
- GKE namespaces, quotas, labels, and baseline policies are configured consistently.
- Runtime access is established through GKE Workload Identity Federation without long-lived Google Cloud keys.
Step 03
Wire CI/CD
A secure GitHub Actions delivery workflow is generated from approved platform templates.
What's actually happening
- GitHub Actions authenticates to Google Cloud through external Workload Identity Federation.
- Private ARC runners execute workflows inside the Platform GKE environment.
- Build, test, secret scanning, SAST, dependency scanning, IaC scanning, and container image scanning follow the standard delivery path.
- Artifacts are pushed to Artifact Registry and identified by immutable image digest.
Step 04
Deploy
Applications are promoted to GKE through an approved GitOps delivery path.
What's actually happening
- Helm packages the Application using the approved Workload Type and runtime configuration.
- Argo CD reconciles the desired Application state into the target GKE Environment.
- The same immutable artifact is promoted between Environments instead of being rebuilt.
- Approvals and promotion controls can be applied before higher-risk Environment changes.
Step 05
Govern
Platform standards remain enforced after onboarding and deployment.
What's actually happening
- Config Sync reconciles namespaces, quotas, labels, and platform configuration from Git.
- Policy Controller enforces admission policies and blocks non-compliant changes where required.
- Binary Authorization and artifact controls restrict deployment to approved images.
- Requests, pull requests, workflow results, approvals, policy decisions, and deployments create an auditable delivery trail.
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What changes with Vertro
A faster path for developers. More control for platform teams.
Vertro turns repeated Application onboarding work into a standardized, secure, and governed platform workflow.
Faster onboarding
New Applications reach an approved delivery path in hours instead of waiting through multiple platform tickets.
Less repeated work
Infrastructure, repositories, identity, namespaces, and delivery workflows are generated from reusable standards.
Security built in
Workload Identity Federation, least-privilege IAM, security scanning, and platform policies are part of the default path.
Consistent delivery
Applications and Environments follow the same approved infrastructure, CI/CD, GitOps, and deployment patterns.
Customer-owned platform
The platform runs inside your Google Cloud and GitHub environment, where your team can operate, govern, and extend it.
Hours, not three sprints. The same standards, every time.
Built from experience
Built by a Principal Google Cloud Architect.
Vertro is designed and implemented by Amit Malhotra, a Principal Google Cloud Architect with more than 20 years in technology and over a decade building Google Cloud, Kubernetes, DevOps, security, and platform engineering solutions.
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Vertro helps Google Cloud and GKE teams standardize Application onboarding, infrastructure provisioning, identity, secure delivery, and governance through a focused, customer-owned platform implementation.
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