NEW YORK -- Packet is pleased to announce support for Project Calico’s container network automation throughout its bare metal cloud platform, enabling highly performant, secure and scalable network automation for OpenStack, Docker, OpenShift, Mesos and Kubernetes.

“Calico’s pure layer 3 approach to networking is attractive to our automation focused customers” said Zachary Smith, CEO of Packet. “Adding support for Calico in our on-demand physical compute cloud helps customers leverage the performance of our bare metal network with instant route propagation of IPv4 and IPv6 address space.”

With dynamic networking becoming a requirement for private clouds and container platforms, Packet found that API-driven address management was simply not enough for modern workload platforms such as Docker. Project Calico and its proven, at-scale route control, made for a great addition to the Packet platform.

“Project Calico is thrilled to work with Packet on supporting our open-source, scalable networking technology within their bare metal public cloud platform.“ said Christopher Liljenstolpe, Evangelist at Project Calico. “The combination of high performance bare metal networks and Calico’s secure, scalable layer-3 approach to network automation is a game changer for production container and VM workloads.”

Using Calico on the Packet platform, clients are able to manage security policy and container address portability on Packet’s native IP backbone, without the performance bottlenecks and operational complexity of other available options, which require an “overlay” of tunnel encapsulation on top of the physical network. Container applications can span multiple datacenters or routed boundaries on the Packet network, with IP addressing propagated using the Border Gateway Protocol (BGPv4).

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