One of the benefits of using Kubernetes to handle container orchestration is that containers are ephemeral, lasting as long as needed and then disappearing. This was supposed to help solve the resource allocation problem, since containers only need to run long enough to process jobs. However, as Kubernetes environments become increasingly complex, another problem arises as engineering teams must manually modify Kubernetes configurations to accommodate changing needs.
Additionally, workloads are often over-allocated to ensure they continue to run regardless of usage spikes, which can result in unnecessarily high cloud charges. scale ops, an early-stage startup, wants to solve this problem. Rather than guessing and constantly adjusting static allocations, we built a system that dynamically sets configurations based on your requirements at any time. Today, the company announced a $21.5 million Series A.
Yodar Shafrir, co-founder and CEO of ScaleOps, said he often saw this overallocation problem when working at his previous company. As a result, a lot of engineering time was spent configuring resources, often resulting in high cloud charges.
“The companies we work with today are seeing 70% to 80% wasted on over-provisioned containers,” Shafrir told TechCrunch. “So we realized that the only way to free our engineers from this repetitive configuration and free them to focus on what really matters is to fully automate the resource allocation process.”
The company has created a dashboard that shows businesses what workloads are currently available and how much they can save by letting ScaleOps autoconfigure them. He said customers typically start small with a single workload to see how it works. Then, once you see your results, toggle automation to save even more.
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He sees an opportunity for growth as companies look to save on cloud fees. The company was founded in 2022 and has dozens of paying customers since launching its product earlier this year, managing thousands of his Kubernetes clusters using its ScaleOps product. Customers include Wiz, Coralogix, and Outbrain. ScaleOps currently has 30 employees, and he plans to double that number by the end of next year.
The company’s $21.5 million Series A was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, NFX, and Glilot Capital Partners.
Source: techcrunch.com
