About

This is the blog of the RAD platform team. RAD is built by Tech Equity Cloud Services Ltd, a UK company and a Google Cloud Partner. The platform is in beta.

What RAD does

There is a stretch of work between choosing Google Cloud and having something governed actually running on it — writing the Terraform, wiring the service accounts, setting the org policy, connecting one application to the next. Almost every team does it privately, from scratch.

RAD provisions that work into a Google Cloud project you own, under your organisation's policies, as plain Terraform. If you have no Google Cloud account, it provisions into a governed project RAD creates and manages for you — the same catalogue and engine serve both. The catalogue lives at radmodules.dev.

Three decisions that shape the rest

Google Cloud, and nothing else. Supporting several clouds shallowly would mean org policy, IAM and networking we could only describe in the abstract. If your estate lives elsewhere, RAD is not for you.

Every module is Terraform. What you hold is ordinary infrastructure code any engineer who knows the tool can read, review and change — not a proprietary abstraction that has to be explained to a security reviewer.

A deploy accelerator, not a hosting company. RAD is not in the request path of what it creates. One exception worth stating plainly: the Terraform state is not yours. It sits in RAD's own Cloud Storage bucket, with no download today.

Live sessions

We run live sessions on Google Cloud in two tracks. Deploy takes one module end to end. Build works a Google Cloud certification as a live lab. Sixty minutes each, free to attend — see what is open.

What you will not find here

No user counts, no deployment counts, no growth or retention figures, no revenue, no logos, and no quotes from people we have worked with. Every quantity we publish is something we counted; where we only have a spread, we publish the spread rather than a flattering average. Where a mechanism is designed but has not yet run, we say so.