Rafay, a Kubernetes operations management platform, raises $25M

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Rafay Systems, a platform for computer software container management, has raised $25 million in series B funding round led by ForgePoint Capital, with participation from Ridge Ventures, Costanoa Ventures, and Moment Ventures. The funds will be used to employ engineers and expand Rafay’s sales and marketing and advertising teams, as nicely as expanding its buyer achievement operations, the enterprise stated in a press release.

As enterprises adopt containers that package code so apps run across computing environments, Kubernetes remains amongst the most common container orchestration systems. Its widespread deployment has spawned the discipline of Kubernetes operations, or “KOps,” a framework used to set up Kubernetes clusters effortlessly and swiftly.

Haseeb Budhani and Hemanth Kavuluru launched Rafay in 2017 to meet the expanding demand for Kubernetes operations options. The cofounders sought to build a platform that unifies lifecycle management for Kubernetes infrastructure and apps, bringing collectively capabilities for automation, safety, visibility, and governance for buyers in the economic, well being care, telecom, and technologies sectors.

“With Rafay, developers, DevOps, operations and security teams can work together to deploy modern applications … faster while reducing downtime … and eliminating security and compliance risks,” CEO Budhani told VentureBeat through e mail. “Application modernization initiatives deserve a modern approach to Kubernetes operations … By leveraging [our] Kubernetes operations platform, developers and DevOps teams can triage infrastructure and application issues faster than ever before, significantly reducing mean time to resolution.”

Operationalizing Kubernetes

Gartner predicts that by 2022 more than 75% of organizations will be operating containerized apps in production, up from fewer than 30% in 2020. But the operational expense, complexity, and sources necessary to handle the lifecycle of Kubernetes infrastructure and these new modern day applications operating on it are nonetheless expanding.

Rafay aims to address this by providing visibility, management, and automation across disparate Kubernetes processes and systems. Using its platform, buyers can deploy containerized apps across numerous computing environments, no matter if they’re operating in datacenters, public clouds, or on-premises hardware.

Rafay ships with a cluster management service that enables blueprinting assistance, logs and metrics collection, and storage and secrets management for managed Kubernetes services, which includes Amazon EKS and Microsoft Azure AKS. The platform’s GitOps capabilities assistance infrastructure orchestration and app deployment by means of pipelines, even though its zero-trust access service permits developers and automation systems controlled, audited access to Kubernetes infrastructure. Beyond this, Rafay presents cluster policy management through an open framework focused on safety and governance. And it features a backup and restore service that offers disaster recovery and migration of the Kubernetes handle plane and app information with committed dashboards for visibility and monitoring.

“Kubernetes has become the de facto choice for containerization and application modernization, but organizations’ Kubernetes journeys have been bottlenecked because of the complexity involved in enterprise-grade deployments, making a comprehensive management platform a necessity,” ForgePoint Capital venture companion Leo Casusol stated in a press release. “The Rafay team has built a highly innovative and differentiated platform that solves gating problems for organizations adopting and scaling Kubernetes deployments.”

Rafay, whose more than 40 buyers involve Verizon, SonicWall, and Appzen, has raised $33 million in capital to date. Annual recurring income grew 800% last year, and the enterprise plans to develop its 60-individual workforce to one hundred by 2022.

Originally appeared on: TheSpuzz