VisualOps is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that aims to simplify operations tasks like deploying code, configuring infrastructure, scaling, and handling failures. It provides an IDE interface for visually designing infrastructure as code using reusable components. The designs are rendered into recipes that agents on instances use to automate configuration via SaltStack. VisualOps handles dependencies and ensures environments always match their designs. It improves on other PaaS options by allowing more customization of architectures, integration of resources, and deploying associated environments together.