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The trio of the Cloud industry leaders has launched a new company with the configuration data management mission.
Today, it appeared with $ 4 million from the secret, Lifeless It is the handicrafts of CEO Alexis Richardson, Cloud-native founder Container control platform touches; Cto Brian GrantFormer Google Software Engineering and Kernnetes’s original lead architect; and the shpo Jesper JoergensenLeading various product roles in Salesforce (including) Herbo) To lead the voice, video and platform teams before joining Twilio.
Richardson spoke to TechCrunch, their new company “CONS CONS CONSEN OFF CONSEN OFF.”
If it just confused you, “Ha?” Let’s explain. A crowd was given in July last year a one configuration update Falcon Sensor causes security program Widespread havoc and More than $ 5 billion Fortune 500 Deals for the company. Delta Airlines said that Lost $ 500 million As a result of flight breaches, by kicking what will happen A long legal battle to undo the losses.
This event was held in combination with an internet of interactive components combined by APIS to create strong systems and applications of the program, now demonstrated that there is a critical infrastructure. However, any part of that website is deliberately or elsewhere, only the whole house, but can also lower the whole city.
This brings to configuration information that ensures that all these outsiders play beautifully with each other and ensure this program and how the system behaves. However, this configuration documents may be an unsuitable confusion and ContitGhub only corresponds to this address.
“The problem is that the configuration information is a scattering of the information – it has become a common slip,” Richardson said.
To make up the paths
Many things have been placed and managed in the last 30 years of the program. Days of the consciousness, the enterprise program was placed mainly through CD-ROMs on localized hardware and found several text plates to the configuration system or the work system or applied work system or applied work system or the work system.
Today is not so simple. The program is often required in a dynamic, large-scale environment, with thousands of code code, gargantuan configuration documents.
Joergensen said he took a valuable lesson in Heroku (Salesforce-owned Platform-as-a-service): The code and configuration data are not the same and requires many different approaches. Configuration data identifies system settings and behavior that cannot be debuged in the same way as the software code can do. However, understanding this information – with tools such as terlaform or kubertnetes – important to avoid expensive mistakes that can cause risingness or delays.
“We’ve made great progress on joint collaboration practices developing with tools like GitHub,” said Joergensen. “However, the configuration of the live infrastructure needs a different approach. This is not just a bunch of file. Our goal is to bring the experience of elegant application developer, all kinds of live production operations developed by Heroku.”
Thus, Contigigub promises to “combine configuration management with modern, automated development workflows and compatibility.” Instead of hunt for a configuration to a certain mistake, everything in ContigHub will be held in a database, it is easy to find, the system is actually corrected with a live appearance.
“Thus, if your client cannot access the system, you need to see what they see and live and practice.” “The configuration information in our system will be the expression of a live production system that allows you to change the commander, not only to identify data, but to change the problem of the team to change the problem.”
The product to be served through a Saas model will first be directed to KubertNetes Devops Helm, Argument, Spit, Horror and open source fork Opinentofu. Richardson says Contitghub, even if they do not reveal names, some “medium” enterprise work already works with design partners.
The product is still a few months since it is officially launched, so today’s announcement provides more than ContigHub and announces $ 4 million in investment. Funding, some prominent VC and angel investors, including crane ventue partners, encoded enterprises, pears VC and Pool’s edge CEO Jason Warner.
AI factor
The Crowdstrike episode was not any stretching event, albeit one of the most expensive configuration mounts recently.
“Configuration changes have been recognized as a long time, the cause of the failures of the cloud system,” said Grant Techcrunch.
Last year, for example, the Australian Super Accounting Fund Unisuper was hit by an intersection After a Google left a million million members without access to their accounts erroneousness Unisuper’s Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE) caused a special cloud to be deleted.
Back in January a configuration error In Github’s cloud, all GIT operations were unavailable until two hours.
The problem is going to deteriorate – AI will be united at a time in which the companies competed to install the AI into the piece of software.
“AI writes that the whole world is completely written and works only and works, just writing the code,” he said. “The next few years, about small changes to Greenfield code bases. The businesses need a mature solution of difficult problems. Configub is a missing piece to allow this again.”
Companies can, of course, can solve their solutions from the combination of tools such as Terraorm, Khaernnetes, Prometheus and others. However, they can be extremely complex to build and manage.
There are great employees like Servicenow and Atlassian, who offer services to solve configuration issues. However, such companies are built in more than 20 years ago, before cloud computing is really taken. Moreover, such companies have long expanded the worlds of many companies, HR, CRMS, team cooperation and project management.
“This type of tools are not good for the modern stack of dynamic, cloud-native, AI-power, container,” Richardson added. “A simple misconcussion will not see the information of AI companies and broadcast on the Internet, you can’t try to pull AI aside.”
A cloud for
Richardson before Contighub, set up an enterprise-oriented cloud messaging company RabbitgqThose obtained by VMware Thilian Scrinsource In 2010. Then in 2014 Weaving weaving worksAccel, Amazon Web Services and Google Enterprises, including Google, continued to raise more than $ 60 million to finance investors. Richardson also developed at Weaveworks Gipps Now widely used frame in the cloud-native and kubertnetes environment to manage infrastructure and application placement.
Weaving formally Shop Shop on last FebruaryThe result of the sale of “Lumpy” and the lack of fresh capital, Richardson write Then. Thus, in mid-2024, he united with Grant and Joergensen and united starting to Contigigub.
GRANT AND RICHARDSON, Welcoming the work of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Sayan Kubertnetes As a boot project After donating in 2015, Google began to give a lot of leadership roles around the KubertNetes project, and over time, he prepared an opinion for a new job that does not match the priorities of Google. This crush As a result, match the touchscreen with touching throughout last year.
From one of the largest technology companies from the planet seems to be a great transition from one to the starting world of jumping. However, the grant worked in two beginners before Google – for one, he was a chief architect at a small start called Peakstream Google was obtained in 2007.
“I was a third engineer there – when we started, we did not have a name, there was no office, we did not have a business plan,” he said. “So I have started very early before.”
While Google continues to grow as exponentially in the company’s 17 years, the participation of the grant with Kevertnetes Google Open was welded in 2014It was a bit of a little Ain to work at a start.
“Kernnets started only four engineers and product managers; We did not have a common manager, we all told different people,” he said. “It was like a start to his right.”
Meanwhile, Richardson met with Joergensen in VMWare, which is more than 10 years ago. After serving various high roles in the world’s largest technological companies, Joergensen was already elected to step into the world.
“Now you can get more than before – we skip the AI towards the rip and probably don’t want to be another place right now,” Joergensen said. “In the beginning, we get to really see what can be done.”
