Empowering enterprises and organizations with a solution designed to harden your application delivery practices.
SUNNYVALE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#argocd—Akuity, provider of Kubernetes-native application delivery SaaS powered by the Argo Project and enterprise support for this popular open source tool, announced a new offer targeted at Enterprises and businesses where security and compliance are key.
The Akuity Platform is a Kubernetes application delivery platform powered by Argo CD, Akuity Co-Founders — CEO Hong Wang, CTO Jesse Suen, and Chief Architect Alexander Matyushentsev — are also the co-creators of the Argo Project. Argo CD is a part of the Argo project, a suite of open source tools purpose-built for deploying and running applications and workloads on Kubernetes that also includes Argo Rollouts, Argo Workflows, and Argo Events.
“The amount of cloud-native applications shipped daily is growing at an unprecedented pace, and businesses need solutions that can harden their security posture,” said Hong Wang, Akuity’s CEO. “Our security-hardened Argo CD offers just that – a powerful, compliant, and highly secure GitOps solution that allows businesses to thrive in the digital landscape with confidence.”
With Akuity’s new offering, businesses will benefit from:
- Hardened Distroless Argo CD Container Images: reducing the attack surface of your application containers.
- SBOM and CVE Patching for Argo CD: keeping you ahead of vulnerabilities with regular patching and real-time security scanning.
- FIPS-compliant Builds: adhering to the highest standards of security compliance.
- Extended Kubernetes Compatibility: maintaining compatibility with the last 5 Kubernetes releases.
- Enterprise Image Repositories: safeguarding your container images with a highly available OCI repository.
- Kubernetes CSP Compatibility: ensuring compatibility with your chosen Kubernetes Cloud Service Provider.
Adding this offering on top of Akuity Platform’s agent-based architecture, which strengthens Argo CD security from the start, offers businesses a streamlined pathway to FedRAMP authorization and unparalleled GitOps security.
For more information, please visit the company’s website.
About Akuity
Akuity is the enterprise company for Argo, the leading open-source suite of cloud-native application delivery software. Akuity was founded by Argo creators Hong Wang, Jesse Suen and Alexander Matyushentsev, and its mission is to empower DevOps teams with the best tools to deliver their apps simpler, safer, and faster. The Akuity Platform provides a best-in-class developer experience with enterprise readiness, and enables organizations to modernize their toolchain for the cloud-native era.
The Akuity team have recently launched another Open Source project called Kargo – aimed to provide stage-to-stage promotion using GitOps without bespoke automation and CI pipelines.
Learn more at https://akuity.io.
Contacts
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