Heptio was a Seattle-based cloud-native software company founded in 2016 by Craig McLuckie and Joe Beda, two of the original co-creators of Kubernetes, to help enterprises adopt and operate Kubernetes. It built a suite of widely used open-source Kubernetes tools including Ark (later renamed Velero) for backup and restore, Sonobuoy for conformance testing, Contour as an Envoy-based ingress controller, ksonnet, and Gimbal. Heptio was acquired by VMware in November 2018 and folded into the VMware Tanzu portfolio; the company brand was retired and most of its open-source projects were migrated from the github.com/heptio organization to github.com/vmware-tanzu. This profile is preserved as a historical/defunct-company record in the API Evangelist network.
Heptio is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Open-Source, Kubernetes, Cloud-Native, and Containers.
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callable_host: false
label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
confidence: low
source:
- none
generated: '2026-08-28'
method: derived
accessModel:
pricing: unknown
onboarding: unknown
trial: false
try_now: false
public: false
label: Unknown
confidence: low
source: []
generated: '2026-07-22'
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image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/heptio.png
name: Heptio
description: Heptio was a Seattle-based cloud-native software company founded in 2016 by Craig McLuckie and Joe Beda, two
of the original co-creators of Kubernetes, to help enterprises adopt and operate Kubernetes. It built a suite of widely
used open-source Kubernetes tools including Ark (later renamed Velero) for backup and restore, Sonobuoy for conformance
testing, Contour as an Envoy-based ingress controller, ksonnet, and Gimbal. Heptio was acquired by VMware in November 2018
and folded into the VMware Tanzu portfolio; the company brand was retired and most of its open-source projects were migrated
from the github.com/heptio organization to github.com/vmware-tanzu. This profile is preserved as a historical/defunct-company
record in the API Evangelist network.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/heptio/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
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x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- accel
- lightspeed-venture-partners
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: defunct
x-acquired-by: vmware
x-acquired-date: 2018-11
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-08-21'
tags:
- Company
- Open-Source
- Kubernetes
- Cloud-Native
- Containers
- DevOps
- Infrastructure
- Defunct
- Acquired
tags_raw:
- Company
- Open Source
- Kubernetes
- Cloud Native
- Containers
- DevOps
- Infrastructure
- Defunct
- Acquired
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
email: info@apis.io
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url: https://apis.io/providers/vmware/
name: VMware
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x-generated-by: broadcom-family:2026-08-21
x-acquired: 2018
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/heptio-domain-security.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
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- type: Website
url: http://www.heptio.com
x-enrichment:
date: '2026-07-19'
status: backfilled
pass: local-v1
note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence
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