For an undisclosed sum of money, Mirantis has acquired Santa Clara, California-based Shipa. This acquisition will add automated application discovery, operations, security, and observability to Mirantis’ Lens Kubernetes Platform.
Lens enables users to effortlessly manage, create, debug, monitor, and troubleshoot their workloads across numerous clusters in real-time, supporting any certified Kubernetes release, on any infrastructure, and helps remove Kubernetes complexity, driving mainstream developer adoption.
With the aid of Shipa’s technology, Lens now has application intelligence and awareness, enabling Kubernetes app owners to operate, enhance, protect, and support their apps from any location with ease. Users may easily monitor the deployment of their apps and microservices, as well as a graphical representation of network connections and maps of application dependencies. A library of certified templates for a number of use cases and security criteria is available for users to build on as they construct and distribute run books tailored to their needs.
“Our goal at Shipa, from the beginning, was to give DevOps and platform engineering teams the capability to choose their own underlying tools with a focus on automation to reduce the complexity of the technology infrastructure required by cloud-native applications,” said Bruno Andrade, co-founder and CEO of Shipa. “Our technology makes deployment and management of applications and updates much easier and faster by letting developers focus on what they do best and not infrastructure.”
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“Shipa’s technology puts ground-breaking application discovery, optimization, security, and management capabilities in the hands of Lens users,” said Adrian Ionel, co-founder and CEO of Mirantis.
For those just getting started with Kubernetes, Lens would lower the entry barrier, and for those with more expertise, Lens would significantly boost productivity. As an integrated development environment (IDE) for Kubernetes, Lens has more than 20,000 stars on GitHub and a million installed users. About 50 percent of Fortune 100 firms use Lens today, according to Mirantis.
“Shipa’s technology puts ground-breaking application discovery, optimization, security, and management capabilities in the hands of Lens users,” said Adrian Ionel, co-founder and CEO of Mirantis. “It will help cloud native software teams move even faster, freeing them to code and innovate.”
Like Lens, Shipa would minimize complexity by protecting developers from needing to understand the nuances of Kubernetes, enabling quicker delivery and management of applications while enhancing security and governance and simplifying upgrades. An interface with Lens Desktop is being developed by the technical teams at Mirantis and Shipa, with a March release date anticipated.
The integration with Lens would provide visibility into applications with security policies applied consistently from CI/CD or GitOps pipelines. Among other things, Shipa offers total visibility over application services, ownership, resource use, policy compliance, and service communication. With links to incident management tools, vulnerability scanners, as well as interfaces with Terraform, Slack, and GitHub Actions, administration of apps is carried out independently of infrastructure.
Additionally, Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (MKE), container orchestration technology for building and executing contemporary applications at scale on bare metal, public clouds, and private clouds, will be integrated with Shipa.
“We were the first investors in Shipa’s vision of application infrastructure-as-code, and now, as shareholders in Mirantis, we can’t wait to continue our journey together,” said Shipa investor Ashmeet Sidana, founder and chief engineer of Engineering Capital. “Mirantis has a terrific track record with acquisitions and we believe Shipa is complementary to Mirantis’ vision of simplifying the Kubernetes developer experience - adding the observability and management of applications. We are looking forward to watching the combined vision come to fruition.”
Shipa Team Joins Mirantis
Along with the rest of the Shipa crew, co-founders Bruno Andrade and vice president of engineering Vivek Pandey will join Mirantis. Andrade formerly served as the CEO of HTBASE and had engineering leadership positions at Juniper Networks, Oracle, and IBM.Mr. Pandey co-founded CloudBees and held a variety of positions, including those in technical leadership and software development. He possesses knowledge in a variety of fields, including user experience, cloud operations, distributed systems, software tools, and SaaS systems.
The acquisition of Shipa follows Mirantis’ acquisition of amazee.io in July 2022. amazee technology has now been included into Lens and MKE to boost developer efficiency.
In 2019, Mirantis also bought Docker Enterprise, which it swiftly incorporated into its Kubernetes platform. According to Mirantis, customer satisfaction has increased after around 100 new clients decided to use Mirantis container technology to assist their digital transformation activities.
