Romanian startup Bunnyshell, which offers an environment-as-a-service (EaaS) platform, today announced it has raised $4 million in funding to simplify development challenges for enterprises.
Developers who build cloud-native applications have struggled for years with staging and testing roadblocks. They must spend hours creating environments that mimic complex production settings and then devote more time to keeping those environments updated and in sync to avoid potential defects. There may be instances of production drift due to slight variations in the replicas. This could impact the development cycle.
Bunnyshell automatically spins replicas of production items
Bunnyshell, which was founded in 2018, solves this problem by automatically creating new, always-updated, temporary environments for development and testing, demo, and deployment of applications to customers clouds. This can be any type of website, including static sites, to complex applications built with microservices that have many cloud-native dependencies.
Bunnyshell automatically sets up an environment with every pull request. Everything is parameterized so developers can pointers to the environment and run manual or automated tests. The environment is then automatically deleted when it is no longer needed. Venturebeat also learns that the environment is automatically updated whenever there’s a change. Alin Dobra, cofounder, and CEO of Bunnyshell said that this saves the developer the effort.
The company claims that production replicas can be created regardless of the complexity of the architecture or the services used. Developers only need to connect to their cloud provider and their repository to automatically discover the services. It creates development and staging areas as needed. It tracks changes to source code and triggers at the project level, enabling it to automatically update existing environments or create new ephemeral ones for each pull request.
We use multiple cloud providers, including AWS, Azure and GCP, and integrate with multiple cloud service providers for both production and staging environments. Dobra explained that we use multiple CI/CD vendors to manage our Terraform modules, Helm charts and Kubernetes deployments.
This allows developers to test and develop their code as close as possible to production, and delivers higher quality code faster with fewer rollbacks.
Growth
Bunnyshell claims that it has grown 700% in the past year, with dozens of new customers from all over the world.
Environments-as-a-service is a new category so most of our customers were not even looking for a platform to help them release faster but were considering building internal tools that consume a lot of resources and time. It can take several DevOps engineers months and even months to accomplish what Bunnyshell can do in days, the CEO said.
Although many people are not directly against the company’s development, many are trying to accelerate update and development cycles for enterprises. Altogic, which focuses on backend development, and Zipy that focuses on improving debugging strategies, both raised seed funds. Last9, a California-based platform for software reliability, has raised $11 Million in series A funding.
Bunnyshell’s latest round of funding was led by Early Game Ventures RocaX Ventures. The round will be used to expand its U.S. market presence, scale its marketing teams, and make critical product improvements.
We consider security a top priority and are currently working towards SOC2 certification. Dobra stated that we also plan to allow users to define roles for their teams and integrate their Kubernetes clusters into Bunnyshell, while still complying with their security certifications.