The open-source Kubernetes management software startup Devtron Inc. is going “agentic” with one of the biggest refreshes of its platform thus far.

Announced at the annual KubeCon North America conference today, Devtron 2.0 unleashes an autonomous site reliability engineer within the platform to handle much of the grunt work that goes into managing Kubernetes deployments.

Devtron’s namesake open-source platform is a popular tool used by more than 21,000 organizations globally to simplify the management of Kubernetes-based applications. The platform integrates multiple tools and features that aim to streamline DevOps processes, so teams can deploy, manage and observe applications hosted in cloud environments more easily.

Central to Devtron’s platform is its Kubernetes dashboard, which provides a single pane of glass for managing multiple Kubernetes clusters. It also provides a comprehensive resource browser that lets teams visualize each cluster and the resources it’s consuming, while role-based access controls and single-sign on capabilities are there to enhance security. In addition, the platform has tight integration with various third-party tools to support the continuous integration and continuous deployment of applications, including ArgoCD and FluxCD.

With today’s release, Devtron is getting a major revamp with its “Agentic SRE,” which is an artificial intelligence agent that’s designed to automate the work that’s traditionally done by human site reliability engineers.

Devtron claims that the average user of its platform typically has to juggle 15 or more disconnected tools to manage things such as their application code, infrastructure resources and costs. With Devtron 2.0, teams can consolidate all of these into a single platform that will operate them autonomously, thanks to its newly gained agentic capabilities.

According to Devtron Chief Executive Ranjan Parthasarathy, though the company’s platform does simplify Kubernetes management immensely, there’s still much more that can be automated. “Kubernetes made applications and infrastructure inseparable. Every pod defines resources and every deployment affects costs,” he explained. “Yet platform teams still use separate tools for monitoring apps, managing infrastructure, and tracking costs.”

Devtron 2.0 changes that, providing truly unified visibility for Kubernetes deployments. With its new Agentic SRE, teams will be immediately alerted to an overloaded node the moment it starts slowing down, and when their compute costs suddenly spike, it’ll tell them exactly what’s causing it. Then, with a single click, they can have Agentic SRE automatically fix whatever the problem is, optimizing their nodes and resources to ensure maximum performance at predictable cost.

The Agentic SRE is said to enable continuous autonomous operations and optimization 24 hours a day, seven days a week, leveraging the customer’s Kubernetes data for logic and third-party tool integrations such as KubeVirt to manage each virtual machine and software container individually.

Meanwhile, its automated cost controls include hibernation and right-sizing features, enabling teams to specify their performance and budget requirements and let it run. Should performance issues arise or cost overruns occur, the Agentic SRE will immediately intervene, the company said.

Devtron said early adapters of Devtron 2.0 have seen encouraging results thus far. For instance, the Indian fintech company BharatPe Pvt. Ltd. said it was able to achieve 12 times faster release velocity for new application updates, while 73 Strings SAS was able to automate 70% of the manual processes in its most complex, air-gapped application environments.

The company is showcasing its platform at KubeCon this week and offering freemium access to new customers that want to take it for a spin themselves.

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