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Mirantis acquires Shipa

By TechTaffy Desk

Mirantis has acquired Santa Clara, California-based cloud-native application-as-code platform provider company Shipa. Shipa will be integrated with Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (MKE), according to the company.

Shipa co-founders Bruno Andrade and vice president of engineering Vivek Pandey will join Mirantis along with the rest of the Shipa team.

Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

[Image courtesy: Shipa]

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