VMware is looking to enable containers running on its own infrastructure.
August 25, 2014
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- Today at VMworld 2014, VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) announced joint initiatives with Docker, Google and Pivotal to help enterprises run and manage container-based applications on a common platform at scale in private, public and hybrid clouds. The collaboration will enable enterprises to leverage their existing VMware infrastructure as a unified, scalable and secure platform for running and managing enterprise applications whether in a container or a virtual machine or a container within a virtual machine in a platform as a service.
Docker, Google and Pivotal are committing to multiple areas of collaboration with VMware including:
Docker and VMware will collaborate on enabling Docker Engine on VMware workflows from build to deploy for VMware vSphere to VMware vCloud Air;
Docker and VMware will collaborate on Docker-related open source projects libswarm, libcontainer and libchan;
Docker and VMware will jointly work on furthering areas of interoperability between their products including Docker Hub with VMware vCloud Air, VMware vCenter Server™ and VMware vCloud® Automation Center™;
VMware has joined the Kubernetes community and will make Kubernetes' patterns, APIs and tools available to enterprises;
Google and VMware will work together to bring the pod based networking model of Open vSwitch to enable multi-cloud integration of Kubernetes;
VMware has contributed code to bring Kubernetes to VMware vSphere to make it easy for enterprises get started with container management; and,
VMware, Pivotal and Docker will collaborate on enhancing the Docker libcontainer project with capabilities from Warden, a Linux Container technology originally developed at VMware for Cloud Foundry.
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