VMware Extends Capabilities of vSphere Integrated Containers to Help Enterprises Embrace Digital Business - Seite 2

• Admiral -- A built-in container management portal for VMware vSphere Integrated Containers that developers and application teams can use to accelerate application delivery.
• Harbor -- An enterprise container registry that is built into VMware vSphere Integrated Containers. Based on Docker Distribution, VMware has added several enterprise features including user management and access control, policy-based image replication, support for audit and logs, a RESTful API for integration, among many others.

Overall, VMware vSphere Integrated Containers helps customers to transform their businesses with containers without re-architecting their existing infrastructure. Tight integration between VMware vSphere and VMware NSX® and VMware Virtual SAN™ allows customers to benefit from best-in-class network automation and scale out, high performance persistent storage, respectively. Customers can continue to rely on their existing operations and resource management capabilities of VMware vSphere to run containerized applications while taking advantage of their portability on-premises or in the public cloud.

Together, VMware vSphere Integrated Containers and VMware vRealize® Automation™ with Admiral will enable IT to deliver Containers as a Service (CaaS) to application development teams. Developers will be able to model containerized applications using VMware vRealize Automation unified service blueprints, provision container hosts from the VMware vRealize Automation service catalog, manage container hosts and much more.

Making VMware vSphere Integrated Containers available as open source software downloadable from GitHub gives customers, partners and the community at large access to the code, visibility into updates, direct access to file issues, the ability to contribute code back to help VMware evolve the code. Customers and partners also have the option of registering to participate in the VMware vSphere Integrated Containers beta program.

Announced yesterday, VMware Cloud Foundation™ will support VMware vSphere Integrated Containers enabling customers to run containers on VMware's virtual infrastructure on-premises or in the public cloud.

VMware to Collaborate with Ecosystem Partners on vSphere Integrated Containers

Today, VMware is announcing its intent to collaborate with ecosystem partners to validate leading third-party solutions including container registries and management consoles with VMware vSphere Integrated Containers to offer customers greater choice. Together, VMware and its partners plan to help customers accelerate the adoption of cloud-native applications in the enterprise while enabling them to run the best-of-breed cloud-native solutions with VMware vSphere Integrated Containers. Initial partners include CoreOS, Hashicorp, Mesosphere, Pivotal and Rancher.