On the second day of #VMworld, #VMware is announcing it's partnering with #Pivotal and #Google on a new service that enables enterprise customers to quickly deploy enterprise-grade #Kubernetes on premise with #vSphere. The new service, called #PivotalContainerService ( #PKS ), allows for simple network and security provisioning with VMware #NSX. It also offers constant compatibility with #GoogleContainerEngine ( #GKE ).
PKS is a commercial release of the open source Project Kubo, a collaborative, joint engineering effort between Google and Pivotal that delivers a BOSH-managed Kubernetes environment. With PKS, customers get all of the software-defined infrastructure as code from VMware and the automation and orchestration from Pivotal's BOSH, with Kubernetes layered on top.
Typically, enterprise development teams could spend weeks or months attempting to deploy containers, with the work of provisioning network IP addresses and firewall rules impeding agility, said Chris Wolf, CTO of global field and industry at VMware.
"PKS gives developers full automation to do all of these things very quickly," Wolf said. "We give you that turnkey Kubernetes deployment, but also give developers the native API and native command line experience" of Kubernetes that they're looking for, he said.
With the constant compatibility guarantee, PKS should offer the same frequent updates available from GKE. The Kubernetes project has had releases every three months over the last year, and "users have really appreciated the velocity and innovation out of that," said Aparna Sinha, Google's product management lead for Kubernetes and Container Engine.
PKS also features a jointly developed version of Open Services Broker API. "It allows all different cloud abstractions to have shared data services and a shared service catalog between them," said James Watters, VP and GM of the Pivotal Cloud Platform
http://www.zdnet.com/article/vmware-teams-up-with-pivotal-google-cloud-on-new-container-service/
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