(Exit) Snyk agrees to acquire CloudSkiff, creators of driftctl

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December 29, 2021
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We’re very happy to announce that our portfolio company Cloudskiff is joining forces with Snyk.

We recognize the team powering driftctl as the ultimate experts in the widely acknowledged issues associated with infrastructure drift,” said Peter McKay, CEO, Snyk. “We’re excited that millions of developers worldwide will now have access to an IaC product that combines these increased infrastructure drift capabilities with the power of the comprehensive Snyk platform. We’re particularly thrilled to welcome the active driftctl community into the Snyk family, and will continue to actively develop driftctl as an open source tool.”“CloudSkiff’s employees are thrilled to become Snykers, and we’re confident that our founding mission – helping the world’s developers gain control over their cloud deployments  – remains in tact, growing exponentially with the size of this new opportunity,”  said Stephane Jourdan, CTO & Founder, CloudSkiff. “We admire all that the Snyk team has accomplished to date, and look forward to playing an important role in this next phase of the company’s journey. Together, we’ll empower millions more of the world’s developers to build securely.

The acquisition of CloudSkiff will be Snyk’s fourth since October 2020, following the successful purchases of FossID, Manifold and DeepCode.Read their journey from the creation of an OSS tool to joining forces with Snyk: //driftctl.com/joining-forces-with-snyk/What a ride ! Congrats to the Cloudskiff team!by Eric Burdier