Codefresh, a continuous integration and delivery platform built for the Kubernetes container ecosystem, today announced that it has raised an $8 million Series B round led by M12, Microsoft venture fund.Viola Ventures, Hillsven and CEIF also participated in this round, which brings the company total funding to $15.1 million.In a market where there are seemingly more CI/CD platforms every day, Codefresh sets itself apart thanks to its focus on Kubernetes, which is now essentially the de facto standard for container orchestration services and which is seeing a rapid growth in adoption.
The service promises that it can help developers to automate their application deployments to Kubernetes and that teams will see &up to 24X faster development times.& That number seems a bit optimistic, but the whole point of adoption Kubernetes and CI/CD is obviously to speed up the development and deployment process.&The meteoric rise of Kubernetes is happening so fast that most toolchains haven&t kept up, and M12 knows it,& said Raziel Tabib, Codefresh co-founder and CEO.
&With this latest round of funding we&re going to aggressively accelerate our roadmap and expand our customer base.&The Codefresh platform hit general availability in 2017 and the company currently claims about 20,000 users, including the likes Giphy.