As container adoption continues to soar in the enterprise, so is the amount of venture capital being showered on the startups trying to monetize the trend. The funding tally increased once again this morning after Weaveworks Inc. announced that it’s raised $15 million from Alphabet Inc.’s GV (formerly Google Ventures) and growth equity powerhouse Accel Partners.

The capital will be used to develop new functionality for its network automation toolkit, Weave, which promises to ease traffic management in large-scale container environments. Its primary component is a virtual switch called Net that takes just a few commands to install and can be used to quickly link up the instances in a Docker implementation. WeaveWorks claims that the software is able to seamlessly carry out the task even if the deployment in which it’s installed is spread out across multiple data centers and cloud platforms.

Once connectivity is established, administrators can take advantage of Net’s built-in network optimization mechanisms to ensure that packets always take the fastest possible path to their destination. Net also provides a number of other staple features such as encryption and fault tolerance that are extended by Flux, the routing component of Weave. The engine handles the task of distributing inbound traffic among the containers that make up a service and ensuring everything keeps working smoothly when a node is added or removed. The process is handled almost completely automatically, which can save a lot of work in larger environments with upwards of thousands of Docker instances.

Rounding out the package is  Scope, a monitoring tool that enables administrators to track the behavior of their container networks in real-time. It also doubles as a management console that provides the ability to quickly implement configuration changes without having to open a new window. In the wake of today’s funding announcement, users can expect many more features to be added over the coming months.

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