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The Open-Source Trojan Horse: How ARMO Turned 11,000 GitHub Stars Into a Cloud-Security Business
ARMO gave away a Kubernetes scanner, watched 40,000 companies download it, then built a runtime-security business on top. This is the story of the open-source Trojan horse - and the eBPF sensor that made it work.
Akuity
Akuity is the enterprise company founded by the creators of the open-source Argo project. It offers a fully managed, GitOps-based continuous delivery platform for Kubernetes, built around managed Argo CD, the Kargo promotion engine, KubeVision real-time visibility, and AI agents that troubleshoot and remediate deployments. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Akuity helps enterprises adopt Kubernetes with less operational complexity and stronger security.
Traefik Labs
Traefik Labs builds the cloud-native networking layer that sits between your users and your services. Its flagship open-source Traefik Proxy - downloaded more than 3 billion times - auto-discovers containers and routes traffic without hand-written config, and its commercial Traefik Hub extends that into a unified 'Triple Gate' platform covering API, AI, and MCP traffic. Founded in France in 2016 and now headquartered in San Francisco, the company's stated goal is to make networking boring: reliable enough that developers stop thinking about it.