Shipa, Corp., delivering a cloud native
application management framework built to manage the full application
lifecycle, today announced that it is open sourcing
Ketch, Shipa's deployment engine, under
Apache License Version 2.0. This open source release follows the general
availability launch of Shipa's full application management framework in
October. Shipa is funded by
Engineering
Capital and
Jump Capital; advisors
include Google's Kelsey Hightower, Mastercard's Ken Owens, and Lyft's Matt
Klein.
Developers and DevOps teams interested in learning more about Ketch can
get started here. Using Ketch,
application developers can manage the entire deployment process at the
application level. Developers can stay focused on writing code and do not need
any Kubernetes expertise to successfully deploy applications running on
Kubernetes. As a result, teams can accelerate the time needed to adopt
Kubernetes, while simultaneously increasing their pipeline's resilience and
reducing the compounding risk with each new deployment.
"By open sourcing Ketch, the cloud native community can easily try and leverage
this powerful cloud native application deployment engine," said Bruno Andrade,
Founder and CEO of Shipa. "Enterprises continue to struggle with the app
deployment process on Kubernetes. Ketch is the perfect way to keep developers'
focus on code - not the infrastructure - as they scale with Kubernetes. Shipa's
vision is to manage the full application lifecycle, from code to
post-deployment. With Ketch now available as a fully open source technology,
there's no faster and easier way for the community to get started."
Ketch significantly reduces the number of Kubernetes objects that developers
must learn and maintain in order to leverage Kubernetes best practices for
managing applications. The deployment engine does this by generating all
Kubernetes-related objects that are required to run applications on Kubernetes
- automatically and directly from their application code. Ketch also enables
developers to generate Helm charts directly from the application code, allowing
them to fully customize ingress, services, security, resources and more before
deployment. Developers can also use their existing container images, in which
case Ketch creates and deploys all necessary objects for the application to
run. Ketch offers connections into existing clusters (beginning with Kubernetes
1.14+) and dramatically improves the developer experience and application
delivery speed by seamlessly fitting into developers' existing stack.
"Shipa is committed to open standards, application deployment and management,
and the communities that support them," said Henrik Rosendahl, COO, Shipa. "The
future of application deployment is open. That's why we are taking our
significant investment toward improving and simplifying application deployment
and offering it to the open source community - and committing engineers to
support it."
Shipa is a Silver member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and a General
member within the Continuous Delivery Foundation.
"Companies like CD Foundation member Shipa are a great example of important
products and services that help expand the CI/CD ecosystem and contribute to
the vibrant ecosystem for both customers and community members to get involved
in," said Tracy Miranda, Continuous Delivery Foundation Executive Director.
"CI/CD continues to expand outward beyond the software development industry,
and open sourcing is an excellent path to broadening adoption and providing
transparency and accessibility."