Pivotal Software, Inc., a leading cloud-native platform provider, today introduced the alpha version of PAS on Kubernetes, as well as new products based on PAS features that improve the developer and operator experience when using Kubernetes.
Kubernetes
is becoming an increasingly ubiquitous part of the cloud
infrastructure. But many organizations are struggling to bring it into
production because it's so complex. Pivotal, and our partners at VMware,
have helped to solve this problem with the Pivotal Container Service (PKS),
which enables small teams of operators to manage numerous Kubernetes
clusters at scale. Pivotal is now bringing its years of expertise gained
building Cloud Foundry to make it easier for developers to deploy and run software on Kubernetes. The
alpha version of PAS on Kubernetes brings the popular "cf push"
experience to Kubernetes, making it easier for developers to focus on
code, and lets the platform stitch together the required components for
software deployment, networking, monitoring, and logging.
"Today's
announcements have been a long time in the making, and are the natural
next step in our platform's evolution. We helped start the Kubo
open-source project in 2017, and launched the Pivotal Container Service
with VMware last year, which is already being used by over 140
organizations," said Rob Mee, CEO of Pivotal. "This announcement marks
the next leap forward of our platform's capabilities, and will help
organizations achieve meaningful business outcomes on top of
Kubernetes."
Pivotal
also introduced new products for Kubernetes based on PAS features. In
May, the company introduced the first two products: general availability
of Pivotal Spring Runtime, and the alpha version of Pivotal Service Mesh. Today, Pivotal introduced the alpha version of the third product-Pivotal Build Service-and announced that the alpha version of RabbitMQ on Kubernetes will be available soon.
Products Summary:
- Build Service: It
provides automation for developers to easily create container images
while providing enterprises the audit and security controls necessary to
run with confidence at scale. It's powered by the CNCF Cloud-Native
Buildpacks project co-developed by Pivotal.
- RabbitMQ on Kubernetes: It
automates deployment and ongoing operations of RabbitMQ, with a
self-service and configurability experience available for developers.
- Service Mesh: It automates setup and configuration of Istio, enabling developers to get apps deployed to production quickly and securely.
- Spring Runtime: It offers comprehensive support for Java environments-including OpenJDK, Spring Support, and Apache Tomcat.
The
alpha version of PAS on Kubernetes, and the new products based on PAS
features will expand Pivotal's market opportunity, simplify the
company's sales process, and make it easier for organizations to get
started with Pivotal. For example, SANTALUCÍA-a leading Spanish
insurance firm established over 95 years ago-recently became a new
Pivotal customer using Spring Runtime.
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"At
Intrado, we pride ourselves on having high-velocity developer teams.
While Kubernetes is becoming increasingly prevalent in the cloud, due to
its complexity, it's challenging to maintain that speed to production
on Kubernetes," said Thomas Squeo, Chief Technology Officer at Intrado.
"I'm excited that Pivotal is now bringing its years of expertise gained
building developer-centric platform to Kubernetes, making it simpler for
my team to focus on pushing code to production."
"AirFrance-KLM
Group was an early adopter of Docker, and then Kubernetes," said
Thierry Morcq, IT program director and chief technical architect, Group
CIO Office, AirFrance-KLM Group. "With the implementation of Pivotal
Cloud Foundry, we are empowered to fully leverage the development
platform, which allows any developer at any level to benefit from
container technology. We are very delighted that Pivotal is now
integrating the Pivotal Application Service and the Pivotal Container
Service in one platform because it will help us to achieve even more
operational efficiencies with thousands of containers."
"Kubernetes
is a runaway train right now, and organizations are struggling to keep
deployments and management on track. They want to standardize processes,
tools, and people, but face a fragmented, complex, and rapidly changing
environment," said James Governor, co-founder of RedMonk. "Pivotal has a
history of standardizing and documenting cloud-native tools and
methods, and is now applying that experience to Kubernetes and
associated technology-like Istio. It is finessing the industry shift to
Kubernetes by taking management features from the Pivotal Application
Service, and re-applying them."
"Kubernetes
is a powerful platform, but it has lacked a fully managed PaaS
experience. Pivotal's development and community investments will improve
the developer experience for enterprises building applications on
Kubernetes," said Raghu Raghuram, chief operating officer, Products and
Cloud Services, VMware. "Embracing Kubernetes strengthens Pivotal's
ability to help complex organizations modernize their application
development practices."