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Identity protection provider Venafi this week announced that it has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Jetstack, a company specializing in open source machine identity protection software for Kubernetes.
Jetstack, a Kubernetes professional services company and a contributor to the open-source community, was founded in 2015 in London.
The company builds cloud-native infrastructure using Kubernetes and educates and supports organizations embracing the cloud.
According to the company, a flurry of new machines are being created using Kubernetes clusters, cloud instances, service mesh, and microservice APIs, each of them requiring a unique identity to operate securely.
Venafi and Jetstack claim they are uniquely positioned to take advantage of this opportunity, as they can protect machine identities and support enterprises using Kubernetes in mission-critical infrastructure.