INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
By now we know that Kubernetes is a wildly popular container management platform, but if you want to use it, you pretty much have to
choose between having someone manage it for you or building it yourself
Spectro Cloud emerged from stealth today with a $7.5 million investment to give you a third choice that falls somewhere in the middle.
The
funding was led by Sierra Ventures with participation from Boldstart Ventures.
Ed Sim, founder at Boldstart, says he liked the team and
&Spectro Cloud is solving a massive pain that every large enterprise is struggling with: how to roll your own Kubernetes service on a
managed platform without being beholden to any large vendor,& Sim told TechCrunch.
Spectro co-founder and CEO Tenry Fu says an enterprise
should not have to compromise between control and ease of use
&We want to be the first company that brings an easy-to-use managed Kubernetes experience to the enterprise, but also gives them the
flexibility to define their own Kubernetes infrastructure stacks at scale,& Fu explained.
Fu says that the stack, in this instance, consists
of the base operating system to the Kubernetes version to the storage, networking and other layers like security, logging, monitoring, load
balancing or anything that infrastructure related around Kubernetes.
Within an organization in the enterprise you can serve the needs of
your various groups, down to pretty granular level with respect to what in your infrastructure stack, and then you don''t have to worry
about lifecycle management,& he explained
That because Spectro Cloud handles that for you, while still giving you that control.
That gives enterprise developers greater deployment
flexibility and the ability to move between cloud infrastructure providers more easily, something that is top of mind today as companies
don''t want to be locked into a single vendor.
There an infrastructure control continuum that forces enterprises into trade-offs against
At one extreme, the managed offerings offer a kind of nirvana around ease of use, but it at the expense of control over things like the
cloud that you&re on or when you adopt new ecosystem options like updated versions of Kubernetes.
Fu and his co-founders have a deep
background in this, having previously been part of CliQr, a company that helped customers manage applications across hybrid cloud
They sold that company to Cisco in 2016 and began developing Spectro Cloud last spring.
It early days, but the company has been working with
