Containous builds cloud-native networking solutions that simplify networking of cloud applications, microservices, and APIs. The company operates several open-source projects, including Traefik (a cloud-native edge router), TraefikEE (a production-grade distributed version of Traefik) and Maesh (a service mesh). Its offerings target enterprises and are deployed at customers such as eBay, Condé Nast, and Nutanix. Led by CEO and co-founder Emile Vauge, Containous provides both community and enterprise-grade products. The company plans to expand its unified and centralized management platform and grow its engineering and product teams to accelerate product development. The article reports that Containous raised $10M in a Series A round. Containous is a Lyon, France-based developer of open-source datacenter infrastructure software. The company builds Traefik, a reverse-proxy and load-balancer designed to deploy microservices and automatically manage configuration across backends such as Docker, Swarm, Kubernetes, Marathon, Mesos, Consul, Etcd, Zookeeper, BoltDB and REST APIs. Led by founder Emile Vauge, Containous positions Traefik as a dynamic routing layer for microservice architectures. Traefik had more than 6,500 stars on GitHub and over 3 million downloads in 2016. Containous intends to use the new funding to continue developing the platform. The company focuses on open-source tooling for datacenter infrastructure and dynamic microservice environments.

Total raised

$11M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series A

Latest activity

Jan 2020