VMware has unveiled VMware vSphere Integrated Containers and VMware Photon Platform, two new technology previews that enable enterprise IT operations teams to deliver containers in production on-premises and on VMware’s public cloud, VMware vCloud Air.
VMware vSphere Integrated Containers will allow IT teams to support any application, including containerized applications, on a common infrastructure. VMware indicates that the technology has the ability to accelerate container initiatives by giving IT teams the ability to leverage their existing investments in VMware infrastructure, people, processes and management tools. In addition, the new solution will give developers the flexibility, portability and speed containers deliver as well as the ability to easily integrate with other container ecosystem solutions such as CoreOS Tectonic, Docker, Kubernetes, Mesosphere’s Data Center Operating System and Cloud Foundry.
Using VMware vSphere, VMware claims that their new offering will help IT operations team meet the following enterprise requirements for containers:
VMware will also showcase and demonstrate the VMware Photon Platform at this week’s VMworld, a purpose-built solution designed to meet this emerging need and features in order to run cloud-native applications at scale. Designated as a technology preview, the VMware Photon Platform is ideal for DevOps teams looking to build out large pools of commodity computing capacity that solely run cloud-native applications. With it, DevOps teams will have the option of open container orchestration frameworks such as Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, Mesos and Cloud Foundry to run on the platform. WMware also indicates that this technology will support dynamic continuous integration environments, platform as a service (PaaS) or SaaS deployments, and sizable data analytics clusters running Hadoop or Spark.
The VMware Photon Platform features the following technologies:
Also announced is VMware and Pivotal’s collaboration to offer solutions for cloud-native applications for IT operations and application development teams, respectively. The partnership will bring joint solutions to market, including a joint, turnkey offering that combines VMware Photon Platform and Pivotal Cloud Foundry solution to further accelerate the deployment, integration and management of a cloud-native application development and production stack.
Pricing and Availability
Both Project Lightwave and Project Photon OS are now available as an open source project on GitHub.
VMware Photon Controller is slated for a private beta release sometime in Q4 2015.
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