Flant

About Flant

Flant operates as a specialized DevOps-as-a-Service provider, focusing on the construction and 24/7 support of reliable infrastructure for business-critical applications since its inception in 2008. The company's core business revolves around managing production environments for clients, with a particular emphasis on highly-loaded web applications. Its service model is designed to assist development teams by implementing continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, containerizing applications, and deploying them on modern Kubernetes-based infrastructures. Flant generates revenue through its service offerings, which include DevOps outsourcing and solutions based on its proprietary software.

Headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia, Flant has operated as a remote-first company since 2016, with a distributed team of over 150 employees. A significant milestone was achieved in January 2019, when Flant became the first Russian company to be a Kubernetes Certified Service Provider (KCSP) and a Silver Member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). In a strategic expansion of its service capabilities, Flant acquired the Okmeter monitoring system in May 2021. This acquisition followed a multi-year partnership and allowed Flant to offer Okmeter as both a SaaS and on-premise monitoring solution, integrating it into its toolset. Further expanding its market presence, Flant merged with Express 42 in June 2023, another company in the DevOps space.

The company's technical foundation is heavily rooted in open-source principles, which it has adhered to since its founding. Flant has developed and maintains several open-source projects. Its flagship product is the Deckhouse Kubernetes Platform, a CNCF-certified solution that automates the management of Kubernetes clusters across various infrastructures, including on-premise servers, public clouds (like AWS, GCP, and Azure), and hybrid environments. Another key open-source tool is werf, a CLI utility accepted as a CNCF Sandbox project, designed to streamline CI/CD processes for Kubernetes by integrating with tools like Git, Helm, and Buildah. These products form the core of the Deckhouse ecosystem, which provides a comprehensive suite of tools for the entire application lifecycle, targeting clients in industries that require high-availability and scalable infrastructure.