YASTESTKubernetes-based Turnkey Software Platform Provides
Consistent Deployment and Management for Containerized Applications
Across Private and Public Cloud Environments
BARCELONA, Spain, Jan. 31, 2018
(GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cisco today announced the Cisco® Container
Platform, a turnkey, open, and production-grade software container
platform to address customers' growing need to have applications
seamlessly run the same way on premises and in public clouds. The
Cisco Container Platform simplifies and accelerates how application
development and information technology (IT) operations teams
configure, deploy, and manage container clusters based on 100
percent upstream Kubernetes. The new solution expands Cisco's
growing portfolio of other leading container platform offerings,
providing more choice for customers.
The Cisco Container Platform
enables an open, multicloud environment with consistent application
deployment and management on multiple deployment platforms,
including Cisco HyperFlex(TM), virtual machines (VMs), and bare
metal, both on premises and in the cloud. With this range of
deployment options, the Cisco Container Platform helps protect
customers' existing infrastructure investments and enables IT to
run applications where they are most effective, seamlessly
transitioning between private and public clouds.
Open,
flexible and extensible
The Cisco Container Platform provides an extensible platform for
container management based on industry standards with an open
architecture and open-source components. The solution addresses the
end-to-end management of container clusters including setup,
orchestration, authentication, monitoring, networking, load
balancing, and optimization. The Cisco Container Platform is also
extensible to other open deployment environments and to networking
(Contiv), security, analytics, and management tools.
As a single solution that
automates repetitive tasks, the Cisco Container Platform can help
increase operational efficiencies and drive faster time to value by
eliminating the need for IT teams to source, configure, and support
multiple disparate solutions. This simplifies deployment and
management of production-grade container environments. Cisco will
also offer new services to help customers modernize traditional
applications, and optimize containers for scale and performance,
and provide enterprise-class support for the Cisco Container
Platform.
Optimized for Cisco
infrastructure
The Cisco Container
Platform, working with other Cisco technologies, enables customers
to have the easiest and most seamless deployment experience, while
extending the value of new and existing Cisco investments. The
Cisco Container Platform will initially be released on, and be
optimized for Cisco HyperFlex 3.0 and can be licensed separately or
as an integrated solution. The Cisco Container Platform
also includes Contiv for container networking which can be further
integrated with Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco
ACI(TM)), enabling customers to deploy containers and build ACI
network policy definitions through Kubernetes.
Optimized in
collaboration with Google Cloud
Cisco and Google Cloud have worked closely to extend and optimize
the Kubernetes platform for on-premises production environments,
providing customers with a consistent environment and the
confidence to move workloads between private and public clouds. The
Cisco Container Platform is a key element of the open, hybrid cloud
offering from Cisco and Google, announced in October and
planned for availability in 2018. Customers will be able to
run robust, enterprise-ready containers on any infrastructure
through the combination of the Cisco Container Platform and the
Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), part of the Google Cloud Platform
(GCP).
Packaging
and availability
The Cisco Container Platform will be available as:
- Software optimized with Cisco HyperFlex 3.0;
available in April 2018.
- Software supported on VM infrastructure, bare
metal, public cloud; available in summer 2018.
Pricing will be subscription-based
on number of cluster nodes deployed, with volume-based
discounts.
Eyal Manor,
Vice President, Engineering, Google
"As
the adoption of Kubernetes has exploded, container orchestration
and management have become of paramount importance to customers
because they enable application portability and consistency across
on premises and cloud-based environments. Cisco Container Platform
is optimized in collaboration with Google Cloud to deliver a
next-generation open hybrid cloud architecture, and represents an
important milestone for our integrated Google and Cisco hybrid
cloud solution coming later this year."
Dr. Thomas
Scherer, Chief Architect, Telindus SA
"As a cloud provider
and integrator, we are offering container platforms to our
customers, and understand the importance to have such environments
available to help them increase business agility. As a Cisco
customer and partner, we are excited that Cisco is delivering the
Cisco Container Platform to provide a truly consistent hybrid
container architecture stretching public and private clouds. This
will enable our customers to unify processes and tooling. Moreover,
the combined strengths of Cisco's networking expertise and Google's
cloud expertise will certainly help to further improve the level of
segregation across microservices to better isolate shared hosting
of business critical services."
Stephen
Elliott, Program Vice President, IDC
"In
the multicloud era, enterprise IT executives are looking to
modernize traditional applications, and manage containerized
applications in a consistent way across public and private clouds.
Container deployment, management and monitoring are key
requirements to drive speed and quality improvements for the
business, and enable scale for IT operations teams. In addition,
operations teams also require multiplatform support, including
Kubernetes, while helping customers address the end-to-end
lifecycle management of container clusters."
Kip Compton,
VP, Cloud Platform and Solutions Group, Cisco
"Cisco is focused on enabling customers' multicloud ambitions.
Cisco Container Platform helps customers realize the potential of
Kubernetes and containers, simplifying the deployment and
management of Kubernetes clusters in a multicloud environment with
enterprise-class security and compliance."
Ed
Horley, Vice President of
Engineering, Groupware Technology (Cisco Gold Channel Partner)
"Application containers have emerged as a top-of-mind technology
for our customers as they refine their DevOps
strategies. We also see a big opportunity to help our Cisco
installed base as well as other customers realize optimal value
with a multicloud strategy through container integration
services. By advising, consulting and migrating our customers
to Kubernetes and containers, they are now one step closer to
freeing themselves from cloud provider lock-in. With the Cisco
Container Platform, customers can now have confidence in this
technology with the backing of Cisco."
Links to
additional information:
Visit the Cisco Container
Platform website
Cisco Cloud Blog about the Cisco Container
Platform
Cisco Executive Blog: Cisco Container Platform & Google
Cloud Solution by Kip Compton, VP, Cloud Platform and Solutions
Group
Cisco Container Platform at a Glance
TechWiseTV episode featuring Cisco Container
Platform
IDC Technology Spotlight: Container Management
Platforms
News release: Cisco and Google Partner on New Hybrid Cloud
Solution
Cisco Container Services
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