Cloud-Native Apps

VMware Pivotal Container Service Hands-on Lab Is Now Live

Cloud-Native Apps posted March 20, 2018

By Michael West, Technical Product Manager, VMware The Cloud-Native Apps Business Unit at VMware is pleased to announce that the VMware Pivotal Container Service Hands-on Lab, a new lab focused on Kubernetes and PKS, is now live. What Are VMware Hands-on Labs (HOL)? HOL comprises more than 80 independent labs covering the entire breadth of Read more...

Running Selenium Grid on vSphere with vSphere Integrated Containers

Cloud-Native Apps posted March 7, 2018

By Tom Schwaller, Senior Technical Product Manager, Michael Roy, Product Line Marketing Manager, and Simone Morellato, Director Technical Product Management One thing that makes containers great is their ability to rapidly spin up a browser-compatibility testing environment. There are plenty of great tools that can then be used to automate this testing, and Selenium is Read more...

Enterprise Management Associates Awards VMware PKS EMA Top 3 Container Management Products of 2018

Cloud-Native Apps posted March 1, 2018

By Ning Ge, Senior Product Marketing Manager VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS) was awarded EMA Top 3 products of 2018 by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) in its report published on March 1 — Ten Priorities for Container Management and DevOps in Production and at Scale in 2018. Based on primary research data obtained from 300 Read more...

Getting Started with Kubernetes-as-a-Service

Cloud-Native Apps posted February 27, 2018

By Michael West, Technical Product Manager, VMware As digital transformation moves from a talking point to an IT mandate, infrastructure teams are being asked to step up to expanded roles. An understanding of containers and container orchestration technologies, combined with deep expertise in storage, networking and compute virtualization, are the minimum requirements for platform engineering Read more...

Connect with VMware at ContainerWorld

Cloud-Native Apps posted February 22, 2018

The third-annual ContainerWorld, Feb. 26-28, is all about helping organizations drive business and technical agility with containers. Bringing the promise of cloud-native to the enterprise is the mission statement driving this year’s ContainerWorld. Around 750 software engineers, DevOps professionals and architects from financial services, insurance, e-commerce, telecommunications and media and entertainment are expected to converge Read more...

A Look Into the Kubernetes Master Components

Cloud-Native Apps posted February 20, 2018

By Tom Schwaller, Sr. Technical Product Manager, VMware CNABU This blog post looks at the most important control plane components of a single Kubernetes master node — etcd, the API server, the scheduler and the controller manager — and explains how they work together. Although other components, such as DNS and the dashboard, come into play Read more...

Announcing Pivotal Container Service General Availability

Cloud-Native Apps posted February 12, 2018

By Narayan Mandaleeka, Senior Product Line Manager Today, VMware and Pivotal are excited to announce the general availability of Pivotal Container Service (PKS). PKS is a Kubernetes-based container service designed to meet the needs of operators and developers by providing native Kubernetes combined with advanced day-1 and day-2 capabilities needed to run Kubernetes at scale Read more...

Uncorking Fine Wine by Using an IoT Pipeline with Kubernetes on vSphere

Cloud-Native Apps posted February 7, 2018

By Tom Scanlan, Emerging Technologies Practice, Professional Service Introduction The AMER PSO Cross-Cloud team and the PS ERD Emerging Technologies team (which I am a part of) have been developing the following demonstration application to facilitate discussions around Internet of Things (IoT) and machine learning (ML) topics with customers and colleagues. This blog post outlines Read more...

Join VMware at This Year’s DeveloperWeek Conference

Cloud-Native Apps posted January 30, 2018

By Susan Wu, Senior Product Marketing Manager Every spring, more than 8,000 developers from 40 different countries make the trip to the San Francisco Bay Area to participate in one of the world’s largest fanfests: DeveloperWeek. VMware will be the lead sponsor of this year’s DeveloperWeek, and we have exciting plans in store for this Read more...

Containers and Kubernetes: The Time Is Now

Cloud-Native Apps posted January 23, 2018

By Art Fewell, Senior Technical Product Manager Kubernetes is poised to be the most impactful infrastructure technology of 2018. The system offers a rare and powerful set of capabilities that enables enterprises to streamline and automate complex operational processes and deliver a cloud-like user experience and feature set. This post discusses the state of the Read more...