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By Ron Miller
October 25, 2023
As Kubernetes is being deployed for ever more mission critical workloads, keeping clusters up and running has become increasingly important for DevOps teams. Chkk, an early stage startup, launched out of stealth today with a solution that looks for vulnerabilities that could take down a cluster and warns administrators before it happens. It’s not only […]
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Edera is building a better Kubernetes and AI security solution from the ground up
Edera, a startup looking to simplify and improve how Kubernetes containers and AI workloads are secured by offering a new hypervisor, today announced that it has raised a $5 million seed funding round led by 645 Ventures and Eniac Ventures. Kubernetes is now 10 years old, but Edera founders Ariadne Conill (distinguished engineer), Emily Long (CEO), and Alex Zenla (CTO) argue that securing multi-tenancy workloads remains an unsolved problem. Long was previously the COO at Chainguard and Anchore
Sep 18, 2024
Kubernetes and sigstore founders raise $17.5M to launch software supply chain startup Stacklok
After being instrumental in launching the Kubernetes open source project, Kubernetes co-founders Craig McLuckie and Joe Beda left Google to launch Heptio in 2016. They then sold the company to VMware in 2018. Both left VMware in 2022 and McLuckie went on to found a stealth startup after a short stint as an entrepreneur in […]
May 17, 2023
Keep’s AIOps platform helps ops teams reduce alert fatigue
Alert management for developers and ops teams may seem like a solved problem. Notifying an on-call engineer isn’t exactly difficult anymore, after all. But the real question has become when to alert the right person and how to help them when a service goes down, for example. Many are turning to AI to solve some of those issues, including Keep. The company offers an open source version that uses a rule-based system, but what’s more interesting is its paid enterprise offering, which also uses AI
Oct 15, 2024
KSOC says it’s tackling cloud-native security in a way that is Kubernetes-first
The take-up of Kubernetes, a tool for managing containerized workloads, is only expected to increase as demand for cloud-native architectures and containerization continues. In terms of security, this can mean a boon or a major blind spot for them, according to Kubernetes Security Operation Center (KSOC), a Bay Area startup — a boon, in that […]
Sep 28, 2023