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™, 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
extensibleThe 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 infrastructureThe 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™), enabling customers to deploy
containers and build ACI network policy definitions through
Kubernetes.
Optimized in collaboration with Google
CloudCisco 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 availabilityThe
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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