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Nobody loves managing configuration files for their applications and as systems get ever more complex and distributed, errors \u2014 and the potential security issues that come with that \u2014 can easily multiply. Infrastructure-as-code has gone mainstream over the course of the last few years and now, Tel Aviv-based open-source startup<\/a> Configu<\/a> wants to bring configuration-as-code for application management to more developers as well.<\/p>\n

The company this week announced a $3 million pre-seed funding round, led by Cardumen Capital. A number of angel investors, including Ariel Mislos, Marc Epstein, Haim Kopans and Omer Schneider, also participated in this round.<\/p>\n

The company was co-founded by Peleg Porat (CEO) and Ran Cohen (CTO). Porat previously worked at the likes of McAffee and F5 Networks, while Cohen was previously an engineer at startups like Backand and Testim.io.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMost of the current trends in the code and software domain increase the number of configurations and their complexity because many technologies \u2014 and many niche technologies \u2014 are around configuration,\u201d Porat explained. \u201cIt\u2019s so complex and so fragmented across secret managers and feature flags, tons of files across git repositories. It\u2019s crazy and leads to misconfiguration after misconfiguration, leading to downtime in production and lots of other issues.\u201d<\/p>\n

He noted that a few years ago, this wasn\u2019t really an issue, so nobody created the tooling for application configuration management. As their systems became more complex, enterprises that now ran into these issues started to build their own DIY solutions, including the Configu founders.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe environment became more complex \u2014 it\u2019s much more distributed, we\u2019ve got Kubernetes, we\u2019ve got all highly distributed microservices and all that \u2014 and then it went from something that was sort of manageable manually a few years ago to something that was just not manageable anymore,\u201d Cohen added.<\/p>\n

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Configu brings all of these application configuration settings under a single umbrella. The open-source version of Configu\u2019s configuration-as-code for application configurations allows developers to store and orchestrate their configuration data across environments and systems. Developers can connect it to their existing configuration settings \u2014 whether that\u2019s in a text file, database, feature flag solution or elsewhere and manage it similar to how they would handle their infrastructure-as-code solutions. And because it is now code, they can integrate it with their test frameworks and automate their configuration workflows, too.<\/p>\n

Like most open-source companies, Configu is monetizing its service with a managed cloud version that adds a number of enterprise features like premium service, single-sign support, role-based access and SOC2 compliance on top of the open-source version. The company also offers a free community version for small teams that don\u2019t need these features.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe keep Configu very, very lean,\u201d Porat said. \u201cWe believe in community. We have a team in Israel and in the Bay Area and we\u2019re getting support from the community who help us and contribute code to the open source. We see a lot of success with this model.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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