Delivering on the promise of “Kubernetes Your Way”, Nirmata releases a whole new set of features in Release 2.6 of its enterprise Kubernetes management solution. The new features are available in both the Cloud Edition (SaaS) as well as the Private Edition (on-prem). With Release 2.6, Nirmata delivers features aimed at simplifying the developer experience for cloud-native tools, and at the same time providing more control and visibility for enterprise IT Ops teams across any infrastructure.
New Features & Enhancements
Kubernetes Certifications
For Release 2.6, Nirmata has successfully completed the official Service Provider certification for Kubernetes version 1.13.
Continuous Deployments
To allow DevOps teams to choose the CI/CD model that works best for them, Nirmata now supports four different ways of deploying and updating Kubernetes workloads:
The Nirmata REST API
The Nirmata Jenkins plugin (Push model)
Integration with additional CI/CD tools like CircleCI.
Now you can backup up your applications and clusters to any clouds of your choice. User can configure cluster & workload backups using the popular Velero add-on. Backups can be performed on-demand or can be scheduled. Backups can be stored in the cloud (AWS, Azure, or GCP). Users can choose to back up all the Namespaces and workloads in their clusters, or they can select individual namespaces that they want to back up.
Synchronization of Existing Namespaces
One of the key requirements from our customers was the ability to provide visibility and manageability of services and workloads on existing clusters. With Nirmata, they can sync-up application manifests and cluster services and manage them right from Nirmata UI. They can then clone those applications or build a single central repository of applications manifests in the Nirmata Catalog. Nirmata users can select un-managed Namespaces (i.e Namespaces that are not deployed through Nirmata), to make them part of their environments. Users can then start managing these Namespaces as any regular application deployed through Nirmata.
Jira Integration
Customers want to track application changes as they happen in their environment. With the Jira integration, any application changes will automatically open tickets and log all the necessary changes introduced in the cluster. Users can associate a specific environment to a Jira project. When a user accepts changes for a running workload, a Jira ticket is opened to track the details of the changes. Details include the identity of the user who accepted the change, the date and the YAML describing the change. This integration is applicable to changes coming from any upstream: Application catalog, Jenkins, or Git repository.
Registry Password Changes
When a Nirmata user changes the credentials of an Image Registry, the credentials are updated in all the pull image secrets referencing this registry. Existing workloads are not impacted. The change takes effect upon pod restart or pod creation.
User Interface Improvements
Network Policy Re-Design
Kubernetes Network Policies are powerful but they are also complex constructs. We have re-designed the User Interface to provide an intuitive way of defining your Network Policies. Users don’t have to be Kubernetes experts to be able to express precisely the Network Policies applicable to their workloads. You can watch the following webinar to see this feature in action: Enterprise Wide Kubernetes: Network Policies
Catalog Inline Editor An inline YAML editor has been added to the application catalog. Power users can now directly edit the YAML of their workload definitions. Non-expert users can continue to use guided workflows to help then define their workloads.
Cluster Creation Progress The deployment of a cluster is a lengthy and complex operation. A progress panel has been added to provides detailed feedback to all of the operations performed by Nirmata to deploy the cluster. The tasks are divided into 4 main categories: pre-deployment checks, deployment, cluster verification.
Application Level Audit Trail An audit trail panel has been added to each catalog application and to each running application. Users can quickly see the activity related to a particular application.
Alarm Panel Refactoring Alarms are now grouped under 3 categories: Application, Cluster and Kubernetes Insights
Cluster Panel Re-factoring
The cluster panel has been refactored to provide faster access to the information. The cluster information is now organized into three tabs: Overview, resources, and add-ons.
Nirmata Admin CLI (nadm)
For Nirmata Private Edition, nadm provides a single command install for single node or high-availability cluster configurations for Nirmata PE. This includes the base cluster creation, certificate management, and the necessary Nirmata application configuration.
Test drive Nirmata
Trying Nirmata is easy and free! Just sign up online at https://nirmata.io. We would love to hear your thoughts on the new features and your enterprise Kubernetes needs.
Radhesh is Managing Partner of Arka Venture Labs. Arka Venture Labs is an Accelerator fund which assists Indian B2B Startups to foray into US by providing a combination of Funding, Mentoring and access to Silicon Valley Ecosystem. Arka Venture Labs was formed in August 2018 and has made 9 investments so far. Prior to starting Arka, Radhesh was Venture Advisor to Blume Ventures, focusing on early stage B2B Startups investments. Before this he was leading the Global Entrepreneur Program, for IBM India and South Asia. He exhibited strong leadership in steering the Startup initiative of IBM from scratch to one of the companies to be reckoned by the Startup ecosystem in India and generating strong revenues for IBM India Cloud business. He has helped many B2B startups scale in their journey by mentoring them, facilitating access to funds and customers.
He has core competency in evaluating startups leveraging technology and advising them on areas of improvement from business and technology standpoint. He conceptualized IBM India`s Startup challenge called IBM India Smartcamp and successfully executed the same. Radhesh has personally curated the startups for the finals, many of whom got funding either for the first time or for their subsequent rounds.He also worked with large enterprises in assisting them in identifying the next generation innovations through joint hackathons and startup challenges.
Prior to this role at IBM he was working as a Software Architect where he was designing Software solutions for Enterprise Clients, ISVs and System Integrators. He created many First of its kind solutions and led several key Sales wins for IBM. Radhesh has strong skills in building strategic relationships with Partner organizations.
Anubhav is VP of Business Development and Customer Success. He has 20+ years of experience in building and growing businesses across service provider, enterprise and commercial sectors. He has led functions in business development, product management, marketing, delivery and operations through his career, and most recently served as GM for the $250M Web-scale Services business at Cisco.
Anubhav is passionate about building new solutions and teams, and growing new market segments. At Cisco, he grew business 30-40% annually for many years while also building new offers, a world class team and a global delivery model.
Throughout his career, Anubhav has straddled technical, operational and business domains to bring new solutions around real-time analytics, operational assessments and network lifecycle management. Most recently, he was involved in bringing in new offers around recently launched Business Critical Services, a $2.5B business for Cisco. Before leaving Cisco, Anubhav signed off with a $350M multi-year deal built entirely around new solutions and engagement model with an innovative commercial structure.
Anubhav brings to Nirmata’s product development and organization an extensive experience developing both custom and standard subscription services, which was significantly formed by his time spent building analytics solutions at Cisco. This perspective on building bleeding edge solutions is evident in his business outlook, which recognizes that best solutions are built with the customers, by listening to them and partnering in risk taking when breaking new ground.
Anubhav holds bachelor’s degrees in both physics and electronics and telecommunications from Mumbai University and an MBA from San Jose State University.
Ritesh Patel, Founder & VP of Products
Ritesh Patel is co-founder of Nirmata and has 20+ years experience building and delivering enterprise software solutions and has led highly successful software and business development teams. Ritesh began his career in engineering for high tech firms, and has since migrated to the business side of the operation. In his founding of Nirmata, Ritesh sought to bring his broad spectrum of experience to a single previously unaddressed industry problem through the creation of a new business. To Nirmata’s leadership, Ritesh brings a rare skill set incorporating experience with the entire chain of software development activities. This background has contributed to Nirmata’s commitment to empowering all employees to do the hard work required to deliver tools that solve tough problems.
Prior to Nirmata, Ritesh led business development at Brocade, where he was responsible for defining the firm’s cloud strategy, and oversaw developments that advanced the entire cloud “as-a-service” market. Through cloud and security-related initiatives, Ritesh and his team at Brocade were able to package Brocade’s plethora of IT infrastructure products into enterprise-ready solutions including OpenStack and CloudStack that pioneered widespread cloud computing implementation. In addition to these technical achievements, Ritesh succeeded in creating an extensive partner ecosystem to efficiently match these solutions with urgent customer needs.
Ritesh has also held key technical positions at Trapeze Networks (where he created industry award-winning products), Nortel, and Motorola. Ritesh holds an MBA from UC Berkeley and a master’s degree in computer engineering from Michigan State University.
Damien Toledo, Founder & VP of Engineering
Damien Toledo is Co-Founder and Vice President of Engineering, overseeing research and development, operations, maintenance, and delivery of Nirmata products. Damien brings over 20 years experience leading global engineering teams and delivering Enterprise grade solutions.
Since 1998 when he arrived in Silicon Valley from France to pursue the possibilities of US startup culture, Damien has held a number of engineering positions at high tech firms, each of which playing a role in the concept development for Nirmata. Building on lessons learned in management transformation at Jetstream Communications in the early 2000s, Damien built the Meru Networks Network Management team and Network Management solution from the ground up as one of the firm’s original members. Meru Networks went public in 2010 (NASDAQ:MERU).
Subsequent to his work at Meru, Damien led the transformation of the engineering team at Netscout to build an agile organization. At Netscout, he championed the adoption of Continuous Integration best practices across a team of 200+ engineers and 7 development sites, which resulted in reducing the software release cycles by 300%. While at Netscout and together with Nirmata co-founder Jim Bugwadia, Damien oversaw the adoption of microservices while searching for solutions to operating quickly in the cloud, and developed the foundations for what would become Nirmata.
Damien holds a master’s degree in computer science from University of Technology of Compiègne.
Jim Bugwadia, Founder & CEO
Jim Bugwadia has 20+ years experience building and leading effective teams and has created software that powers communications systems around the world.
Jim was among the original architects and business leaders within Cisco’s cloud automation practice, where he helped grow revenues to over $250M. During Jim’s tenure, IDC recognized the practice as #1 in global cloud services.
Prior to his work at Cisco, Jim led engineering teams at startups including Pano Logic, a desktop virtualization startup recognized for its innovative design by Wired magazine; Trapeze Networks, a wireless pioneer; and Jetstream Communications, a telecom equipment manufacturer. Jim started his career developing C++ software at Motorola for cellular network infrastructure where his team launched the world’s first cellular telephony that used code division multiplexing to optimize radio frequency usage.
Jim’s passion is to simplify the use of complex systems by providing well designed products that drive mass adoption of new technologies. As software has become mission critical to all businesses, Jim and his co-founders started Nirmata to help enterprises automate the delivery and management of applications. Jim currently develops software in Java, Golang, and Javascript, and is a Certified Kubernetes Administrator who actively participates in Nirmata’s full product lifecycle.
Over the course of his career, Jim has logged over $1.3B in revenue, 6 patent filings, 8 major product launches, and 29 years experience coding.
Jim holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Chicago State University and a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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