In the cloud-native market, a variety of open source DevOps tools — tools that combine software development and IT operations — designed to address very specific use cases have been introduced.
As a result, DevOps teams today have too many limited options that don’t work well together or can’t be integrated into a single platform.
Prashant Ghildiyal, one of the co-founders of Devtron, a startup offering a platform to address what he believes are the top challenges facing the DevOps space, believes as much.
Devtron is a container management system that provides a low-code delivery platform optimized for Kubernetes. (“Containers” are software packages that include all of the components needed to run in any environment.)
The platform handles app management, security, and other functions while providing an interface that hides the underlying infrastructure.
To Ghildiyal’s point, there is evidence that there is a disconnect between DevOps adoption and success.
Only 10% of developers said their companies were successful at building and deploying software quickly in a 2019 Harvard Business Review survey, with less than half (48%) saying their organization always relied on DevOps methodologies.
A separate, more recent poll conducted by infrastructure automation company Puppet discovered that companies were encountering a number of DevOps roadblocks in their quest to become cloud native, including a skills shortage, issues with legacy architecture, organizational resistance to change, and limited or no automation.
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Investors are interested in Devtron, as evidenced by the company’s announcement today of a $12 million funding round led by Insight Partners.
“Devtron integrates with products across the microservices lifecycle, particularly Kubernetes, allowing its users to deploy faster and automate their CI/CD pipelines without worrying about Kubernetes knowhow,” Insight Partners principal Josh Zelman told TechCrunch in an email.
Ghildiyal and Devtron’s other co-founders, Nishant Kumar and Rajesh Razdan, claim to have firsthand experience with the challenges of scaling DevOps in their previous roles as heads of technology and software architects at various startups.
Their experiences influenced the design of Devtron, which Ghildiyal describes as “DevOps in a box,” with tools that provide audit logs and metrics indicating an organization’s DevOps maturity.
Devtron also offers access control and policy management tools, as well as environment orchestration, software delivery workflow, and cost management. “This saves significant time and resources in terms of development and deployment in production,” Zelman added.
Ghildiyal sees Devtron competing against formidable incumbent vendors such as GitLab and Harness in a DevOps market estimated to be worth $4 billion in 2020 by Global Market Insights.
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(Not to mention startups like Render, which raised $20 million after winning our Disrupt SF 2019 Startup Battlefield last November.)
When asked about clients, Ghildiyal said Devtron has “several” unicorns and growth-stage companies as commercial customers, but he wouldn’t name them or reveal Devtron’s revenue.
