INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Armory, a startup that has built a CI/CD platform on top the open source Spinnaker project, announced a $10 million Series A today led by
Other investors included Bain Capital Ventures, Javelin Venture Partners, YCombinator and Robin Vasan.Software development certainly has
changed over the last several years, going from long cycles between updates to a continuous delivery model
The concept is actually called CI/CD or continuous integration/continuous delivery
Armory product is designed to eliminate some of the complexity associated with deploying this kind of solution.When they started the
company, the founders made a decision to hitch their wagon to Spinnaker, a project that had the backing of industry heavyweights like Google
&Spinnaker would become an emerging standard for enabling truly multi-cloud deployments at scale
Instead of re-creating the wheel and building another in-house continuous delivery platform, we made a big bet on having Spinnaker at the
core of Armory Platform,& company CEO and co-founder Daniel R
Odio wrote in a blog post announcing the funding.The bet apparently paid off and the company version of Spinnaker is widely deployed
enterprise solution (at least according to them)
The startup ultimate goal is to help Fortune 2000 companies deploy software much faster — and accessing and understanding CI/CD is a big
part of that.As every company out there becomes a software company, they find themselves outside their comfort zones
While Google and Netflix and other hyper-scale organizations have learned to deploy software at startling speed using state of the art
methodologies, it not so easy for most companies with much smaller engineering teams to pull off.That where a company like Armory could come
It takes this open source project and it packages it in such a way that it simplifies (to an extent) the complex world that these larger
companies operate in on a regular basis, putting Spinnaker and CI/CD concepts in reach of organizations whose core competency might not
involve sophisticated software deployment.All of this relates to multi-cloud and cloud-native approaches to software development, which lets
you manage your applications and infrastructure wherever they live across any cloud vendor or even on-prem in consistent way
Being able to manage continuous deployment is part of that.Armory launched in 2016 and is based in the Bay area
It has raised a total of $14 million with a $4 million seed round coming last year.They were also a member of the Y Combinator Winter 2017
classand count Y Combinator as an investor in this round.
