Buoyant the company behind the popular open source Linkerd project and creator of the new service mesh category of cloud infrastructure software today announced the close of $10 5 million in Series A funding The round was led by Benchmark Capital with additional participation from Angels a female-led investment group of current and former Twitter executives Also joining the round were previous investors A Capital Data Collective Fuel Capital SV Angel and the Webb Investment Network The round brings Buoyant’s total funding to date to 14 million and adds Peter Fenton to the Buoyant board of directors just weeks after stepping down from the Twitter board
As the entire software industry moves to cloud computing the way that applications are built and operated is changing dramatically said Peter Fenton General Partner at Benchmark Capital and member of the board of Docker New Relic and Yelp Buoyant’s introduction of the service mesh has the potential to be as fundamental a component of microservices and cloud native software as TCP/IP was to network programming and Linkerd’s dramatic open source adoption over the past year is evidence of just how immediate of a need that is for companies ”
The open source Linkerd service mesh provides reliability and safety to cloud applications by managing the communication between the services in an application In applications designed for the cloud this internal service-to-service communication forms a critical part of runtime behavior but is often hidden and unmanaged leading to unpredictable and potentially catastrophic cascading failures By managing runtime communication and decoupling it from the application Linkerd not only increases end-to-end system reliability it allows companies to migrate their application between infrastructure implementations data centers and cloud providers dramatically reducing risk of adoption and of provider lock-in
A service mesh like Linkerd can be one of the easiest ways for organizations to incrementally introduce something like Kubernetes into their existing tech stack said Joe Beda Kubernetes co-creator and co-founder of Heptio By abstracting service identity and discovery Linkerd decouples application code from the infrastructure it runs on allowing companies to migrate business logic from legacy systems to Kubernetes incrementally and to have a uniform layer of visibility and control across their entire stack regardless of the underlying infrastructure ”
Since its launch in , Linkerd has seen widespread adoption across industries and verticals ranging from startups like RocketLawyer Zooz and Monzo Bank to established enterprises like PayPal Oath and Credit Karma Earlier this year Linkerd became the fifth hosted project with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation CNCF the open source group that also hosts the Kubernetes container orchestration project This May the service mesh category received further validation with the launch of Istio a service mesh collaboration between Google IBM and Lyft Buoyant’s recent announcement of Linkerd and Istio integration ties these projects together allowing Linkerd and Istio to be used together as a unified service mesh For more on our Istio integration please read our blog here
The service mesh is essential to making cloud native software operationally viable said William Morgan Linkerd co-creator and CEO of Buoyant It brings one of the most critical part of your cloud application’s behavior — the runtime communication between services — out of the realm of the invisible implied infrastructure and into the role of a first-class member of the ecosystem where it can be monitored managed and controlled ”
Linkerd’s user base which currently numbers in the thousands of engineers and billions of production requests per day is comprised of DevOps practitioners Site Reliability Engineers SREs platform engineers and anyone responsible for reliability of web-scale operations across distributed systems
ABOUT BUOYANT
Buoyant buoyant io builds open source software for cloud-native applications Founded in 2015 by senior Twitter infrastructure engineers William Morgan and Oliver Gould Buoyant’s mission is to make cloud-native software faster more scalable more reliable and more secure Buoyant is based in San Francisco and is backed by some of Silicon Valley’s top investors including A Capital Benchmark Capital Data Collective Fuel Capital SV Angel Angels and Webb Investment Network
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