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Announcing Pivotal Container Service General Availability

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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...
IoT

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

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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...
DeveloperWeek

Join VMware at This Year’s DeveloperWeek Conference

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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

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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...
vSphere Integrated Containers 1.3

vSphere Integrated Containers 1.3 Makes Deployment Easier

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We are pleased to announce the release of vSphere Integrated Containers 1.3. This newest version enhances stability and delivers a new graphical-user interface to guide users through the creation of a Virtual Container Host (VCH). What’s New:   Create and Delete Wizard With more and more customers looking to vSphere Integrated Containers as an easy Read more...
KubeCon 2017

A Look Back at KubeCon 2017

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By Ryan Clair, Senior Systems Engineer The community around Kubernetes is blossoming. Attendance for this month’s KubeCon in Austin doubled last year’s audience to hit more than 4,200 attendees. That impressive number is made all the sweeter due to VMware’s participation in KubeCon 2017 as a platinum sponsor. So much went down at KubeCon 2017, Read more...
VMware Pivotal Container Service Webcast

Diving into the VMware Pivotal Container Service Webcast Series

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By Susan Wu, Senior Product Marketing Manager Kubernetes is an open source cluster and container management tool originally developed by Google to orchestrate software in containers. The system gives developers a single method for deploying, scaling and managing containers on a variety of cloud services and virtual machines. Container orchestration helps developers keep track of Read more...
Kubernetes 1.9

Kubernetes 1.9: Expanded Ecosystem, Workloads API, Storage Visibility and More

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By Manuel Martull, Product Marketing – Cloud-Native Applications The new Kubernetes 1.9 gives you more control over clusters, solidifies aspects of the API and improves the extensibility of the underlying system’s architecture. This release is expected to include 38 features spanning security, cluster lifecycle management, APIs, networking, storage and additional functionalities. Of these 38 features, Read more...
Project Hatchway

Exciting Updates to Project Hatchway for KubeCon 2017

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By Tushar Thole, Senior Manager R&D, Storage and Availability Business Unit Unveiled at this year’s VMworld, Project Hatchway is VMware’s persistent storage and availability platform for cloud-native applications. It enables static and dynamic provisioning of persistent storage for cloud-native applications in Kubernetes and Docker swarm environments deployed on vSphere. By tightly integrating with the software Read more...
VMware Pivotal Container Service

Deploy Enterprise-Grade Kubernetes with VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS)

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By Narayan Mandaleeka, Senior Product Line Manager and Paul Dul, VP of Product Management VMware and Pivotal are excited to announce that Pivotal Container Service (PKS) will be initially available in mid-December for customers seeking an enterprise-grade Kubernetes solution. PKS is a purpose-built product to operationalize Kubernetes for enterprise and service providers, it significantly simplifies Read more...