VMware, Inc., the global leader in virtualization and
cloud infrastructure, today announced technology integrations with
Docker, Kubernetes, the open-source container orchestration project
initiated and managed by Google, Mesosphere and Pivotal Cloud Foundry
to further simplify enterprise container deployment and management.
The integrations offer enterprises turnkey deployment of Docker
containers on VMware Fusion, VMware vCloud Air and VMware
vSphere as well as simplified deployment of leading resource
scheduling and cluster management solutions for containers on their
VMware infrastructure, empowering them to develop and run
applications rapidly and securely across private, public and hybrid
clouds.
Today, VMware also announced that it is collaborating with Mesosphere
to provide enterprises with broader choice for the deployment and
scheduling of containers, containerized applications, and related
applications data center services such as Hadoop, Spark, and
Cassandra. Mesosphere organizes physical servers, virtual machines,
and cloud instances and lets applications draw from a single pool of
intelligently- and dynamically-allocated resources, increasing
efficiency and reducing operational complexity.
Delivering a Common Platform to Meet Developer Needs
By enabling
enterprises to quickly deploy containers, virtual machines or
containers within virtual machines along with associated management
solutions on a common platform, VMware helps DevOps teams to build,
deploy and scale their applications with confidence. VMware today
released technology integrations that enable:
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One-click deployment of Docker containers from the desktop to the cloud through integration between VMware Fusion, VMware vCloud Air and VMware vSphere with Docker Machine.
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Rapid installation and deployment of Kubernetes via VMware vSphere for container cluster deployment, management and orchestration.
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Simple and fast installation and deployment of Mesosphere via VMware vSphere to run and manage data center applications and services at scale.
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Rapid deployment and management of Linux container application instances via simple virtual machine installer of the Pivotal Cloud Foundry platform on VMware vSphere.
Today's integrations follow on the heels of VMware's collaboration with
Docker, Google and Pivotal -- previously announced in August 2014 --
to help enterprises run and manage their containerized applications
on VMware infrastructure or VMware vCloud Air. By offering
enterprises a common platform for running virtual machines and
containers, developers gain needed agility and speed while providing
IT teams with the control they require. Additionally, VMware will
bring to bear its compute, management, storage, networking and
security capabilities to container environments.
"Our focus is to provide enterprises with the
common platform for building, operating and managing applications at
scale," said Kit Colbert, vice president and CTO, Cloud-Native Apps,
VMware. "In conjunction with our broad partner ecosystem, we are
empowering enterprises to minimize the integration costs, time and
effort to securely run and manage containerized applications wherever
they choose -- whether on-premises on VMware vSphere or in the cloud
on VMware vCloud Air."
"Enterprise customers are excited about VMware's integration with
Mesosphere. The integration of Mesosphere and VMware vSphere will
make it easy for them to write, deploy and manage containerized
applications at scale," said Matt Trifiro, vice president of
Marketing, Mesosphere. "Containers are a great format for packaging
tasks, but you need to pair them with Mesosphere's technology if you
want to run and operate them at scale."
"Pivotal Cloud Foundry, together with VMware vSphere and VMware
vCloud Air infrastructure, automates software delivery in the data
center or the cloud," said James Watters, vice president, Product,
Marketing and Ecosystems for Cloud Foundry at Pivotal. "With
application metrics and four layers of high availability built into
the platform, Pivotal Cloud Foundry is the enterprise choice for
automating Linux container deployments."