When Weaver himself was the Vice President for Product Management in UnquorkHe realized that the company needs a higher way to manage the extensive Kubernetes cluster network – which are groups of computing nodes. When UNQORK couldn’t find anything but the shelf, he gathered a team of 15 to build a Kubernetes management product. Despite the expenses price many hundreds of thousands of dollars, Weaver said that the platform was created was simply wonderful.
“I think to myself, there must be a better way to do it,” said Weaver Techcrunch. “I mean that what we built was sufficient, but it was not complete and it took us two years.”
Weaver (in the photo above on the right) sat in this concept until he met Michael Guarino, an engineer with significant work in firms, including Amazon and Twitter – back when it was still called. When Weaver explained Guarino the problem, he was surprised by his answer: Guarino thought the problem was relatively easy to solve. Guarino then built a higher system in a few weeks.
This platform has turn out to be the basis Plural. The company’s platform consolidates the Kubernetes clusters on one navigation desktop to make it easier for enterprises to improve operations, manage these clusters and implement updates from one central place.
Weaver said that the artificial intelligence of the numbers of AI may also offer suggestions for optimizing cluster performance or diagnosing scaling problems. The plural is clouds and agnostics.
Weaver said that hope is that the plural burns time for programmers, because they do not have to look for information or mistakes in their clusters Kubernetes. He added that the company may also help teams to update inside a few hours, unlike weeks.
“It reduces operating costs by about 90%, we saw our users and clients,” said Weaver. “People are very excited from this because they are actually able to do productive work.”
Weaver said that the time of this solution is appropriate. Over the past few years, enterprises have moved from managing one Kubernetes cluster to multiple – an accelerated trend by growing artificial intelligence.
“You have a lot of cattle that you can not just treat as individual clusters,” said Weaver. “Until now, people take many open source from the ecosystem. There are 2,000 projects in the Kubernetes ecosystem.”
The plural number was founded in 2021 and soon launched the original version of its platform. According to Weaver, the company now cooperates with many corporate clients on markets comparable to financial services and other regulated industries, although it refused to disclose specific names of consumers or numbers.
The startup recently also raised a spontaneous round of $ 6 million led by the essential Venture partners with the participation of Capital One One Ventures and Ventures. Weaver said that the band decided to raise $ 3 million, but doubled their round after noticing strong demand. The company wants to put money to deepen its products and finally discover areas outside of Kubernetes.
The variety of plural is not alone in solving the Kubernetes cluster stretch marks. Competitors are Loft Labs, a startup that collected $ 28.6 million in financing Venture, and Startup Rancher, which raised $ 95 million before he was taken over by Suse in 2020 for $ 600 million.
Weaver believes that its architecture is the best distinguishing feature of the plural. He mentioned specifically the incontrovertible fact that the plural works on the Gitops model, his product is self -sufficient by each client and that each Kubernetes cluster has its own agent AI, which works.
“The company has a fundamentally full control over how and where they implement it,” said Weaver. “No data is sent home. This is not the SaaS service. We are down, we focus on further adding to the Kubernetes management platform, which we have, and there is still a lot to do with which we are excited.”