Recently we had the privilege of being named a Gartner Cool Vendor in the Monitoring and Observability category. The funny thing is, while this is definitely the closest Gartner category for our solution, we aren’t really used to thinking about Komodor as a monitoring and observability tool.

I am excited to share that we’ve just launched our first open source project called ValidKube. The idea behind Validkube is to fuse together the capabilities of three other popular open-source projects (kubeval, kubectl-neat and trivy by Aqua) and present them in a single view, providing users with a way to ensure YAML code hygiene and security, all at the same time and with just a few clicks of the button.

This article is based on a true story. The names of the company and people involved were changed to protect the innocent 🙂 . A few weeks ago, we were contacted by a pretty big e-commerce company. We can’t really share their name but, for the purpose of this story, let’s call them “KubeCorp Inc”. They reached out to us following an edge-case incident they had, which resulted in severe downtime.