The cloud-native market has seen the introduction of a variety of open source DevOps tools – tools that combine software development and IT operations – built to address very specific use cases. As a result, DevOps teams today have too many narrow choices that don’t work together seamlessly or integrate into a single platform.
At least, that’s the opinion of Prashant Guildyal, one of the co-founders of Devtron, a startup that provides a platform for what he believes are the core challenges facing the DevOps space. A container management system, Devtron provides a low-code delivery platform optimized for Kubernetes. (“Containers” are software packages that contain the elements necessary to operate in any environment.) The platform handles application management, security, and more, providing an interface that abstracts away the underlying infrastructure.
Across Guildial, there is evidence to suggest that there is a gap between DevOps adoption and success. In a 2019 Harvard Business Review survey, 10% of developers said their company was successful in building and deploying software quickly, while less than half (48%) said their company always relied on DevOps methods. A separate, more recent poll by infrastructure automation company Puppet found that companies are hitting several DevOps hurdles in the race to become cloud native, including skills shortages, legacy architecture issues, resistance to organizational change and limited or lack of automation. .
Investors are keen on Devtron, as the company today closed a $12 million funding round led by Insight Partners. “By integrating DevTron with products across the microservices lifecycle, and specifically with Kubernetes, users can quickly run their CIA/CD pipelines without having to worry about Kubernetes,” Josh Zelman, principal at Insight Partners, told TechCrunch in an email.
Guildial said he and Devtron’s co-founders Nishant Kumar and Rajesh Razdan had previously faced the challenges of demonstrating DevOps themselves in their roles as chief technology and software architects at various startups. Their experience reflects DevTron’s design, which Guildial describes as “DevOps in a box,” with audit logs and metrics that show an organization’s DevOps maturity status.
Devtron provides access controls and policy management as well as environment orchestration, software delivery workflow and costing tools. “This saves a lot of time and resources to build and deploy a product,” Zelman added.
Guildial sees Devtron, which is estimated to be worth $4 billion by 2020, competing against formidable incumbents such as GitLab and Harness. (Not to mention startups like Render, which raised $20 million last November after winning our Disruptive SF 2019 Startup Battlefield.) Guildial, when asked about customers, says Devtron has “several” unicorns and growth-stage companies as commercial customers, but declined to divulge names. – or Devtron’s income.
Guildial, the India-based principal of Devtron, focuses on post-funding resources and cost optimization to “enable DevOps automation and efficiency at scale.
