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As Kubernetes is being deployed for ever more mission decisive workloads , keeping clusters up and run has become more and more important for DevOps teams . Chkk , an early - stagecoach startup , launched out of stealth today with a resolution that looks for vulnerabilities that could take down a clump and warns administrators before it pass .
It ’s not only launching , and making the platform generally useable , it also herald a prior $ 5.2 million seed investment led by Sequoia Capital .
The three founders — CEO Awais Nemat , CTO Fawad Khaliq and CPO Ali Khayam — know a little about Kubernetes , having worked together at AWS , helping keep Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service , the company ’s Kubernetes offering , up and run .
They decided to put that knowledge to exercise to work up a inauguration that help mere mortal companies do the same with their Kubernetes clump .
“ Our first mathematical product is designed for enterprises who are running foreign mission critical software on Kubernetes infrastructure . We facilitate them reduce availability risks , and forestall incidents and downtime from occur and help them run safely and efficiently , ” CEO Nemat order TechCrunch .
They do this by monitoring the clump and send warning signal when there is a potential job that could add a clustering down , so the team can deal with it before there is a crisis situation . CTO Khaliq suppose that one of the things he learned at AWS was that the same set of issues afflicted customers repeatedly , but they did n’t rig up a system to detect and prevent those issues .
“ We come up with a very simple idea , simple to its core , that if there ’s any error , incident or kerfuffle that has happened anywhere in the world , we will learn about it , ” he said . “ Then we commute it to an handiness danger key signature , just like a computer virus key signature , and we stream it to all of our customers where it will be scan in their environments . ”
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He said in this way Chkk customers can proactively find , name and remediate availableness risks before they cause outages .
The company launched last year , and has been working with other customers to refine the approximation before plunge this week . “ Quite a few customers signed up and we ’ve work with a handful of caller very tight over this last eight months and they are running in their product environments with tens of bunch within each client , ” Nemat said .
The company currently has 15 employees , but they project to be careful with lease until they see how the ware does in the grocery store after this week ’s general liberation . Nemat says as the caller produce , the founding squad is place to building a various companionship .
“ We believe in diversity , and we believe it ’s not only good for us , it ’s salutary for our customers . Taking diverse opinions helps us empathize with a all-inclusive range of customers and build dependable products merely by take into account what [ people from different backgrounds ] think and strike problems that you otherwise can not find on your own , ” Nemat say .
The company bootstrapped for the first year or so before close up the $ 5.2 million in support from Sequoia in May . The startup name comes from the DOS check disk dictation , which was chkdsk , but rather of find out the status of the disc , the supernumerary k is for discipline the position of Kubernetes , a geeky inside joke .
