Despite being founded in 2018, TriggerMesh Inc. is making waves in the cloud industry with a Kubernetes-based platform that integrates cloud applications to be deployed as code and managed at a single source.

Recently, Cisco Systems Inc. led a funding round of over $5 million for the software platform, which TriggerMesh plans to use to expand its sales and marketing team.

The pandemic realized a need for more remote services, with TriggerMesh taking the reigns to assist large infrastructure organizations with digital transitioning, with the public sector and financial services as their earliest adopters.

“We decided that financial services is where we were going to start with first because they have a lot of legacy architecture,” said Mark Hinkle (pictured), co-founder and chief executive officer of TriggerMesh. “They have a lot of need to move to the cloud to have better digital experiences. We wanted to enable them to keep their mainframes online while they were still doing cutting-edge mobile applications.”

Hinkle spoke with Lisa Martin and David Nicholson, co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, during the recent KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA event. They discussed how the pandemic changed the trajectory of the company, the global adoption of Kubernetes, the company going open source and more. (* Disclosure below.)

Containerizing infrastructure

Although TriggerMesh doesn’t require expertise in Kubernetes, heavy Kubernetes users are one of their biggest markets, according to Hinkle.

“They have a security and an integration concern before they go live, so they want to be able to make sure that they don’t increase their attack face,” Hinkle said. “They also want to make sure that this newly deployed containerized infrastructure is as well integrated as the previous server infrastructure that they had before.”

TriggerMesh announced earlier this month that is was open-sourcing its entire platform under the Apache Software License 3.0.

“Our project wasn’t open yet because we had to get to the point where it could be open and people could be productive in the use and contribution,” Hinkle said. “Now we are letting our code out into the wild. And I think it’ll be interesting to see what comes back.”

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA. (* Disclosure: This is an unsponsored editorial segment. However, theCUBE is a paid media partner for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2021. Red Hat, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and other sponsors of theCUBE’s event coverage have no editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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