Capital One Launches Critical Stack Enterprise Container Orchestration Platform Beta

MCLEAN, Va., Nov. 21, 2017

The use of containers and microservices is on the rise as more organizations recognize the automation, speed and cost savings benefits of modern computing infrastructure.

For large enterprises, especially those in highly regulated industries, security and compliance considerations are paramount. Critical Stack, powered by Capital One, was designed to help enterprises more fully automate compliance and security controls, as well as orchestrate streamlined deployment and configuration of apps and infrastructure in the cloud.

"With Critical Stack, our goal is to help more organizations take advantage of the benefits of containerized infrastructure without sacrificing security, compliance, and simplicity," said Liam Randall, co-founder of Critical Stack Inc, who joined Capital One through an acquisition in 2016. "At Capital One, we have standardized on microservices and containerization in the cloud and recognize the needs that large enterprises face as they modernize their computing infrastructure. We believe that Critical Stack will help other companies adopt containers at scale."

Critical Stack is a standalone container orchestration platform that is compatible with open source container management systems such as Google's Kubernetes.

"What Critical Stack means to the enterprise is that the application is the first-class citizen," said Dustin Webber, co-founder and CTO of Critical Stack. "Critical Stack is designed to empower developers to spend less time setting up and operating container infrastructure and more time solving the hard problems that really matter."