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Every Team Builds, Releases, and Runs Software. But Who Can See the Whole Picture?
In every engineering organization, from fintech unicorns to 20,000-seat global bank, delivery happens in a loop. Code gets built. Releases get pushed. Systems run 24/7. Then it all happens again.
This cycle isn’t an opinionated lifecycle dreamed up by a consultant or vendor, it’s just the reality of software delivery today.
But here’s the problem: while Build, Release, and Run are universal, the data that proves what happened in each stage is fragmented across disconnected tools and teams. Code gets built in CI, approvals live in Jira or ServiceNow, runtime states are buried in cloud consoles — and none of it connects into a trustworthy, auditable record.
So when security, compliance, or audit ask:
- What changed in production last week?
- Is this deployment compliant?
- Where’s the approval for that hotfix?
It’s a scramble. Screenshots. Spreadsheets. CI archaeology. And delays.
That’s the pain Kosli was built to solve.
Software Delivery Is Automated — but Not Accountable
Modern delivery stacks are rich in automation but overloaded with complexity.
CI pipelines. Ticketing systems. Artifact registries. Cloud infra. Security scans.
Each tool adds value but also adds another silo.
Now layer in multiple teams, applications, environments, and regulatory controls each with their own processes, naming conventions, and priorities.
The result? Nobody sees the whole picture.
Even simple questions: “What changed?”, “Who approved this?”, “Is this compliant?” require investigation.
Governance becomes detective work.
Not because people aren’t doing their jobs—but because the evidence is scattered, siloed, and incomplete. Theres a danger of the process becoming theatre and not providing its intended value.
Kosli changes that by connecting connecting software delivery events across the Build, Release, and Run lifecycle into a single, queryable source of truth.
Kosli Records What Happened, Where, and When - Automatically
Kosli integrates into your existing pipelines, environments, and approval flows. It doesn’t replace your tools it records their outputs and verifies them with binary provenance.
- Build: Every artifact is SHA256 fingerprinted, linked to a commit, and paired with SBOMs, scan results, and test outcomes.
- Release: Every promotion, environment transition, and approval is logged with source, policy checks, and timestamps.
- Run: Every environment is continuously monitored to detect changes to running workloads, drift, and compliance status.
This evidence is immutable, versioned, and queryable — creating a live audit trail.
A Record of Software Activity, Not a Collection of Tickets
Traditional governance depends on forms and documentation. Kosli replaces that with an automated time-line of software activity:
- What was built, when, and by whom
- What policies were in effect at that time
- What artifacts were promoted, and where
- What’s running in production now, and how it got there
This isn’t observability in the logs and metrics sense. It’s observability for delivery events: immutable, policy-aware, and importantly human-readable for auditors.
The benefit? You don’t gather evidence. It’s already there.
So teams don’t have to gather spreadsheets anymore. They’re just… ready.
Runtime Is the Missing Link in Most Governance Tools
Most tools stop watching after a release is deployed. Kosli keeps monitoring what’s live and compares the two.
Why does that matter? Think about what happens when:
- Manual changes bypass your pipeline checks
- Rollbacks reintroduce vulnerable images
- Drift breaks your systems
Workloads get rolled back. Images get reused. You inherit vulnerabilities that never got scanned again.
Kosli tracks the actual state of every environment, not just what should be there. That means you can:
- Continuously evaluate production systems
- Spot unauthorized deployments
- Detect drift and non-compliance
And when governance rules change (as they always do), Kosli gives you historical clarity: what was deployed, when, and under what policy.
From Point Solutions to Cross-Lifecycle Answers
Point solutions answer narrow questions:
- What’s in this container?
- Did the tests pass?
- Did someone click ‘approve’?
Kosli answers the hard ones:
- What code is running in production, and was it approved?
- Which commits, PRs, and JIRAs are tied to this deployment?
- Was this workload compliant when it shipped—and is it still now?
You can’t answer these from Git or your CI. Kosli connects everything. That’s why it can deliver these insights with confidence.
From Gatekeeping to Guardrails: Governance by Design
Manual CABs and point-in-time audits create the illusion of control. They’re reactive, slow, and easy to game. The audit becomes theatre and it’s value diminished.
With Kosli:
- Policies are enforced in real time
- Objective evidence is captured in with zero-trust
- Approvals become traceable, not theatrical
It’s governance by design, not ceremony. You get the speed of DevOps with the safety of regulated change and the value that audits are designed to provide built in.
Build. Release. Run. Govern.
You already build, release, and run software. Kosli just helps you control it.
By connecting delivery events across all three domains, Kosli creates a single source of truth that your engineers, security leads, auditors, and execs can trust.
You don’t need new processes. You need a better way to record and prove the ones you already have.
Kosli makes software delivery observable, governable, and always audit-ready.
And that’s what happens when you sit at the center of Build, Release, and Run.
