Company Research Report: Akuity Inc.

Company Overview

• Name: Akuity Inc.

• Mission: Akuity’s mission is to modernize the cloud-native application delivery landscape and provide a delightful end-to-end developer experience that just works.

• Founded: Akuity was founded by Argo co-creators Hong Wang, Jesse Suen, and Alexander Matyushentsev.

• Key People:

• Hong Wang - CEO

• Jesse Suen - CTO

• Alexander Matyushentsev - Chief Architect

• Headquarters: Akuity Inc., 440 N. Wolfe Road, Sunnyvale, CA 94085-3869, US

• Number of Employees, Revenue: No information is available.

• Notable For: Known for the Argo project, which is widely used in Kubernetes environments for continuous delivery and GitOps.

Products

Akuity Platform

• Description: An end-to-end GitOps platform for Kubernetes that allows deployment, promotion, and monitoring with innovative features.

• Key Features:

• Argo CD: Deployment solution for Kubernetes.

• Kargo: Continuous promotion using GitOps principles.

• KubeVision: Real-time visibility into Kubernetes clusters.

• Security, scalability, and enhanced visibility features.

Akuity Enterprise

• Description and Features: Offers enterprise support for Argo with enhanced security, GitOps best practices, and additional operational features.

Security-Hardened Argo CD

• Description and Features: No detailed information available.

Kargo

• Description: Continuous promotion tool leveraging GitOps principles without bespoke automation.

• Key Features:

• PromotionTasks for reusability.

• Soak Time for validation.

• Integration with Azure DevOps.

KubeVision

• Description: Enhanced visibility into Kubernetes clusters supporting real-time monitoring and detailed insights.

• Key Features:

• Real-time dashboards for various metrics.

• Timeline view for error tracking.

• Tree view for resource relationships.

Recent Developments

New Products and Features

• Kargo v1.2

• Adds PromotionTasks and ClusterPromotionTasks.

• Introduces Soak Time for upstream validation.

• New json-update and delete steps for promotion.

• Azure DevOps Integration with enhanced options.

• KubeVision

• Launched with dashboards for Explorer, Deprecated APIs, and others providing detailed resource insights.

• Timeline view and Tree view to enhance visibility and resource management.

New Partnerships

• No specific partnerships are detailed.

Conclusion

The report focuses on Akuity Inc.'s strengths in Kubernetes-centered offerings, like Argo CD, Kargo, and KubeVision. The company drives innovation in continuous deployment and infrastructure visibility with a suite of product features catering to enterprise-level demands. Although revenue and employee details are not disclosed, the firm's core mission and recent product developments highlight its influence and commitment to advancing cloud-native solutions for more efficient DevOps practices.