Thursday, April 14, 2022

Komodor tries to address the Kubernetes deployment complexity at scale

Komodor, a young Israeli software company developing a platform to manage Kubernetes, was a good surprise of the recent IT Press Tour in Tel-Aviv. We met the management team at their HQ in Israel and learn the mission of the company around the difficulty to optimize and troubleshoot Kubernetes at scale.

The microservices and container approaches have marked a fundamental shift in IT infrastructure but also introduce some challenges and complex management and control tasks for enterprise especially when the environment operates thousands of services. Kubernetes, invented at Google as Borg and released in 2014, is the orchestrator of such distributed computing environments, but mastering it is not a panacea. It is very adopted, in 2021 we count 5.6M developers on the project and several large corporations use Kubernetes in production as they already adopted container such Docker or others. K8s is the new IT and data center operating system with a fast growing ecosystem.

Komodor, expert in Kubernetes, has identified the Kubernetes pain at scale and develops a troubleshooting model and solution for developers. Collecting all changes, info... Komodor exposes a single source of truth to point to the root cause, easy to use for developers to go faster in the environment mastering. As K8s is distributed by nature, this model creates inherently some difficulties with tons of events created and sent by various tools with very limited skilled people. Tools change everyday and many solutions are created very frequently adding some complexity.

Komodor is connected to all components and collects all events, merging them, correlate them, digest them... to offer a map that facilitate trouble resolution. The solution relies as essentially 2 components: Komodor Brain and Komodor UI. The Brain is composed by 3 engines: collector, automation and correlation, K8s insights, plus alerts. The result is exposed via a very intuitive GUI that facilitates developers, admins or users to fix issues.

We'll monitor carefully Komodor during the next quarters as the trajectory is already very compelling and the team has shared that a big news is coming in the coming weeks.

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