Q Advisors' Cloud Native/DevOps Private Vendors Matrix By Dmitry Netis & Jordan Rupar / 4.7.2020 Q Advisors assembled over 100 startups in the cloud native Kubernetes ecosystems, peddling various software offerings across the following six distinct cloud native / Kubernetes market sub-segments: Continuous Integration / Development Tools Testing & Monitoring Continuous Delivery (“Dev”) (“Mon”) (“CI/CD”) Product Deployment, Service Mesh Security Management & Orchestration (“Run”) (“Sec”) (“Ops”) Sector Company Description Buildkite is a platform for running fast, secure, and scalable continuous integration pipelines. Buildkite is a CI and build CI/CD automation tool that combines build infrastructure with the convenience of a managed, centralized web UI. CircleCI provides online automated testing and continuous CI/CD integration tools for developers worldwide. CloudBees developed Jenkins, a tool for continuous delivery both on-premises and in the cloud. In 2018, CloudBees acquired CI/CD Codeship, a provider of CI/CD as a cloud-based service, a move that broadened its portfolio for organizations of all sizes. Codefresh provides powerful, fast, and simple CI/CD pipelines. Each CI/CD step in a Codefresh CI/CD pipeline is its own container, enabling speed, modularity, and flexibility. GitLab is a continuous integration and deployment tool for the entire DevOps lifecycle. The company also offers Git repository and CI/CD GitLab Serverless that enables enterprises to run serverless workloads on any cloud using Google’s Knative. Harness uses machine learning to simplify the process of delivering code from artifact into production. Its platform includes various CI/CD features, such as pipeline builder, workflow wizard, continuous verification, automated rollback, secrets management, audit trails, real-time delivery analytics, and GitOps. 1 Q Advisors Cloud Native Vendor Matrix Sector Company Description Puppet is an infrastructure automation and delivery platform that CI/CD spans across hybrid environments to automate infrastructure and application workflows and ongoing management. Travis CI is a continuous integration platform that helps developers CI/CD build, test and deploy open source and private projects. Agile Stacks is a DevOps automation platform for cloud infrastructure and machine learning. The Agile Stacks Machine Dev Learning Stack allows teams to automate the entire data science workflow, from data ingestion and preparation to deployment and ongoing operations. Canonical offers Ubuntu, a standard secure enterprise Linux for servers, desktops, cloud and developers. Ubuntu is the reference Dev platform for Kubernetes on all major public clouds, including Google’s GKE, Microsoft’s AKS and Amazon’s EKS CAAS offerings. Cloud 66 offers a full DevOps toolchain for containerized apps in production, automates much of the heavy-lifting for Devs through Dev specialized Ops tools. The end-to-end infrastructure management platform currently runs 4,000 customer workloads on Kubernetes and manages 2,500 lines of configuration. A hybrid and multicloud database built by Apache Cassandra Dev experts, Datastax offers distributed data management products and cloud services. 2 Q Advisors Cloud Native Vendor Matrix Sector Company Description Frog offers DevOps automation, providing universal artifact Dev management for DevOps acceleration. Kong, previously known as Kong Community (CE), is an API platform Dev for microservices. Replex is a governance and management platform designed for working in Kubernetes environments. The tool solves the challenges Dev surrounding Kubernetes’ dynamic nature by unifying cost and governance management for deployments in the cloud. Sonatype is an integrated open source governance platform that Dev helps more than 1,000 organizations and 10 million software developers accelerate innovation and improve application security. XeviaLabs’ XL Platform offers automation products for deployment, environment provisioning, test management, and enterprise release Dev management. XebiaLabs’ DevOps Platform is an end-to-end DevOps toolchain orchestration and reporting platform. xMatters offers an operational visibility and IT alerting platform providing toolchain integrations with hundreds of IT management, Dev security, and DevOps apps. The xMatters platform allows organizations to automate key processes and streamline workflows. Chronosphere provides an open source metric data platform called M3, created by the founders of Chronosphere while at Uber. The Mon data platform, proven at petabyte scale in production, stores over tens of billions of metric time series and ingests and serves billions of data points per second. 3 Q Advisors Cloud Native Vendor Matrix Sector Company Description Cribl, a log data and metrics tool, gives full access to the data in Mon motion to lookup, enrich, redact, encrypt, transform, or sample data before indexing. Datatron is a machine learning / AI tool that provides automation of Mon standardized deployment, monitoring, governance, and validation of models to be developed in any environment. Built for security and IT operations teams, Devo’s data analytics Mon platform addresses both the explosion in volume of machine data and the new demands of algorithms and automation. The ELK stack comprises Fluentd, Elasticsearch, and Kibana. These Mon tools fully integrate and represent a reliable solution used for Kubernetes monitoring and log aggregation. Epsagon offers automated tracing for cloud microservice, whether containers and serverless, or in cloud-based environments. It's the Mon only agentless solution that provides distributed, automated tracing of every request in a transaction including payload visibility. Grafana is an open source analytics and monitoring solution for Mon databases, enabling users to take control of their unified monitoring and avoid vendor lock in and the spiraling costs of closed solutions. Graphite is an enterprise-ready monitoring tool that runs equally well on cheap hardware or cloud infrastructure. Graphite tracks the Mon performance of websites, applications, business services, and networked servers. 4 Q Advisors Cloud Native Vendor Matrix Sector Company Description Humio provides log management with streaming observability through a purpose-built platform to enable fast, scalable and Mon efficient log data management. Humio is an alternative solution to Splunk, Elasticsearch, Sumo Logic, and Datadog. LogicMonitor is a SaaS-based performance monitoring platform that empowers DevOps teams and web-commerce companies to Mon monitor the availability and performance of their critical IT infrastructure. Nagios provides monitoring of all mission-critical infrastructure Mon components, including applications, services, operating systems, network protocols, systems metrics, and network infrastructure. Scalyr is a log management and operational visibility platform for Mon high-speed log management and server monitoring. ScienceLogic is an AIOps platform that sees everything across cloud and distributed architectures, contextualizes data through Mon relationship mapping, and acts on this insight through integration and automation. Sensu is a full-stack monitoring platform for dynamic operating environments. It offers Telemetry and service health checking Mon solutions for multi-cloud monitoring at scale, enabling deep visibility into servers, containers, services, applications, functions, and connected devices across public or private cloud. Sumo Logic develops and provides cloud log management and metrics monitoring solutions including visibility into nodes within Mon Kubernetes clusters, as well as application logs. Solutions include monitoring and troubleshooting container health, replication, load balancing, pod state and hardware resource allocation. 5 Q Advisors Cloud Native Vendor Matrix Sector Company Description Sysdig offers container production by solving complex issues of monitoring and managing the performance of cloud-based Mon application delivery infrastructures. It offers cloud monitoring at scale, with full Prometheus compatibility. Weaveworks offers weave scope, a zero-configuration monitoring Mon tool that generates a map of processes, containers, and hosts in a Kubernetes cluster to help monitor Docker containers in real time. Zenoss develops intelligent application and service monitoring software and builds comprehensive real-time models of hybrid IT Mon environments, providing unparalleled holistic health and performance insights. Alluxio offers data orchestration for analytics and machine learning in the cloud. Alluxio moves data closer to big data and machine Ops learning compute frameworks in any cloud across clusters, regions, clouds and countries, providing memory-speed data access to files and objects. Arrikto provides decentralized storage for the cloud native world. It allows containers to run over super-fast local storage, while Ops providing instant clones and snapshots, readily available to any other node, which can be shared over a decentralized network. Banzai Cloud is an operating system for containers and cloud that Ops allows enterprises to develop, deploy and scale container-based applications. Chef offers teams that ability to secure, configure and deploy Ops containers with applications in a cloud-native or bare metal environment. 6 Q Advisors Cloud Native Vendor Matrix Sector Company Description Cockroach Labs is a distributed SQL for cloud native environments that enables developers to build applications that survive Ops datacenter-scale