A Gold Sponsor of DockerCon 2016, VMware is demonstrating its support for Docker containers across its software-defined data center solutions to help IT deploy containerized applications into production.

• VMware announced the availability of Photon OS 1.0, a component of VMware vSphere Integrated Containers and VMware Photon Platform. Photon OS is a container and Linux runtime optimized for VMware vSphere and is available as open source software.

• Solving the challenges of networking and security is a key enabler for production deployments of Docker containers. To that end, VMware will demonstrate an integration with Libnetwork in its booth (G3).

• VMware also announced the beta release of the Docker Volume Driver for vSphere, a plugin is integrated with Docker Volume plugin framework. Using the Docker Volume Driver for vSphere, customers can create and manage Docker persistent volumes on vSphere storage technologies spanning Virtual SAN, VMFS and NFS.

• VMware introduced Project Bellevue, a technology preview that will enable VMware vRealize Automation to support containers. Project Bellevue capabilities such as modeling containerized applications in vRealize Automation unified service blueprints, provisioning container hosts from the vRealize Automation service catalog and managing container hosts will be demonstrated in VMware's booth.