VMware Integrated Containers critical to company's DevOps strategy

 

VMware still a recurrent for handling the customer's request to implement DevOps for application development while providing a stable base for traditional applications topic. VMware, Microsoft, is burdened by such organizations waive virtually bimodal IT.
If you are a data center manager, is difficult to reconcile the power of the voice of the company requesting the next generation of infrastructure such as kubernetes vs mesos and the large number of existing legacy applications run within the data center. I was talking with VMware on how the company balances the needs of the customer base, which require stable infrastructure solutions known as vSphere against what they label natal cloud.
As in his approach to the hybrid cloud, VMware is focused on extending customer investment in vSphere. In this post I will explain how I see the position of VMware data center in the natal cloud.

Challengers

Aspiring domination VMware infrastructure data center initiatives are focused DevOps as kubernetes, Docker and mesos. One way or another, all these platforms are designed to eliminate friction as vSphere solutions. Application equipment simply buy the hardware, rack and stack equipment install Linux, and consume their infrastructure using open source platform favorite, or a combination of open source platforms.

Another way to consume resources by providing a VM instance or a cloud and DevOps use of these tools. One calls these tools is that the infrastructure is transparent to the developer. To Docker, a developer can pull down several Docker images for each layer of your application. Once obtained, they are easily deployed in virtually all distributions of Linux. No matter for the developer if the underlying physical or virtual infrastructure. The developer has the abstract control infrastructure to develop a complete application stack.
Like a race car that reduces the number of doors opening, the rear seats, and many other features, these open source platforms allow developers and applications to go fast. Like racing cars, very few use cases are suitable for this simplified experience. Steady state operations become a concern for most emerging tools. What happens when disaster recovery, data replication, advanced security and tracking tools after implementing new applications quickly is needed? How do you handle these applications, along with your current environment?

Containers of integrated VMware

Many early adopters of these technologies may find that after the implementation of applications, there is a need to build the ecosystem management infrastructure. Applications optimized to work with a network provider and can not function as storage transparent infrastructure stack to another. VMware seeks to cover their paris integrated with VMware containers (VIC), its management framework containers in a vSphere cluster, currently in the technology preview.

Docker VMware is great example of being able to take advantage of new development tools open source tools with legacy infrastructure. For Docker, VIC becomes a target for Docker API. When a developer issues a Run command Docker, VIC creates a vSphere resource in response to the request. The resource may be an entire virtual machine or container. This correspondence is defined as a range of services according to requirements negotiated by the development teams and infrastructure.
VMware argument is that developers get what they really want, which is access to infrastructure without friction. While meeting the development needs of the infrastructure equipment is gaining greater visibility of workloads running on a system of containers. In addition, engineers leverage their existing infrastructure tools to manage performance and capacity of applications developers to create traditional applications.

Conclusion

Business managers must balance datacenter infrastructure requirements today while providing easy access for future applications. VMware is based on its ability to modernize vSphere to meet the needs of both audiences.

Companies that have spent years by traditional vSphere environments can find that offers this balance VIC. I'm anxious to see real testimonies of customers who expressed vSphere infrastructure for developers of applications that leverage VIC.