Fresh off an $8 million funding round led by Microsoft Corp.’s venture capital arm, Israeli startup Codefresh Inc. today released an enterprise version of its namesake software for managing continuous integration and development on the Kubernetes container orchestration platform.

Codefresh shortcuts the complexity of Kubernetes configuration with a preconfigured automation platform that it says helps organizations deploy Kubernetes applications in as little as 10 minutes. Containers are lightweight virtual machines that enable developers to quickly build and run distributed applications on any supported platform. Kubernetes provides a management layer for coordinating multiple containerized applications.

The company said it’s targeting the inherent complexity of Kubernetes, which is lauded for its rich feature set but which comes at the expense of a steep learning curve. Codefresh comes with a boilerplate Kubernetes configuration that it says works out-of-the-box with most applications. Developers can also customize the environment for manual deployment.

Codefresh is specifically targeting applications behind the firewall with the enterprise release. Its software can securely work with on-premises systems and cloud platforms based upon Windows, Linux operating systems as well as the ARM processors that dominate the mobile market. Codefresh Enterprise provides a lightweight deployment approach that eliminates the need to install the full software stack. Instead, users can deploy an agent within their Kubernetes cluster to test applications securely on demand.

“Codefresh’s hybrid model provides a [software-as-a-service]-like experience while keeping builds and code on the user’s infrastructure,” Chief Evangelist Dan Garfield said in a prepared statement.

Founded in 2014, Codefresh emerged from stealth last year with initial plans to deploy on Google LLC’s Cloud Platform. It has since widened its scope to include all of the most popular Kubernetes environments while preserving some platform-specific features. For example, Windows developers can build full .NET containers, while native ARM integration eliminates the need for emulation, yielding up to six-fold speed improvements in mobile development.

Single sign-on authentication via popular directory services, combined with role-based access control, enables administrators to assign permissions at the resource, pipeline and asset level. “An application engineer may be able to make commits that build and deploy staging instances for testing while an approver can handle the continuous delivery to production,” Garfield said in a blog post announcing the release.

The company offers a free test version with three pricing tiers, beginning at $69 per month. The enterprise edition offers unlimited builds and both SaaS and on-premise deployment options. Enterprise pricing is custom-quoted.

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