REDWOOD CITY, Calif.,
Oct. 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Equinix,
Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the world's digital infrastructure
company™, today announced it has expanded its neutral ecosystem of
technologies and partner solutions that support the deployment,
management and operations of Kubernetes on Equinix Metal. As a de
facto standard for hybrid and multicloud workloads, Kubernetes
helps organizations operate and scale their applications across any
infrastructure. By expanding support for Kubernetes solutions from
leading providers on Equinix Metal, Equinix is making it easier for
its more than 10,000 customers to move applications to the edge and
closer to the clouds, users, networks and partners that matter most
to their business.
"Kubernetes is the go-to deployment substrate for new and
evolving applications," said Mark
Coleman, Senior Director of Developer Relations at Equinix
Metal. "While Kubernetes initially matured in the public cloud with
developer-first companies, leaders across all industries are
increasingly utilizing it to accelerate their move toward the edge
and operate complex hybrid and multicloud infrastructures. Offering
first-class support for Kubernetes on Equinix Metal through a wide
variety of partners helps our global customers move faster while
maintaining flexibility."
Building upon more than 20 years of history activating advantage
for customers through a neutral, partner-led strategy, Equinix is
expanding its Kubernetes ecosystem to help companies simplify
hybrid multicloud deployments on a global scale. With fully
documented and tested partner solutions by Elastic Kubernetes
Service (EKS) Anywhere, Google Cloud's Anthos, Mirantis Container
Cloud, SUSE Rancher and K3s, Canonical Kubernetes, IBM Cloud
Satellite, Platform9, Rafay and others now available on Equinix
Metal, global businesses have both the choice and the stability
required to create advantage with their digital infrastructure.
Highlights/Key Facts:
- Equinix Metal is an automated, interconnected and secure bare
metal service that applies a developer and API-first mindset to
foundational infrastructure and provides a fully automated way for
digital businesses to access the value of Platform Equinix® via its
leading collection of DevOps and open-source integrations.
- As more global businesses adopt hybrid multicloud as the
architecture of choice, enterprise and cloud native companies alike
are turning to Equinix to deliver interconnected digital
infrastructure on demand from an ecosystem of providers. To make it
easier for companies to run Kubernetes on bare metal and extend
their hybrid cloud options, Equinix is continuing to pursue a
neutral, partner-first strategy by integrating a variety of
solutions from leading Kubernetes providers with Equinix
Metal.
- Key activities powering the expanded ecosystem of Kubernetes
solutions available on Equinix Metal include:
- Equinix Metal included as a launch partner solution for Amazon
EKS Anywhere in September 2021.
Amazon EKS Anywhere can currently run on VMware vSphere, with
support for bare metal expected in 2022.
- Mirantis Container Cloud updated in August 2021 to include Equinix Metal as a default
deployment option.
- SUSE Rancher 2.6 announced September
2021 includes an updated UI and powerful new features,
including an updated provider for Equinix Metal and associated
technical guide.
- In August 2021, the Canonical
Juju 2.9.8 release enabled users to deploy, integrate and manage
Kubernetes, as well as container and VM-native applications, on
Equinix Metal.
- In November 2020, Google Cloud
announced general availability of Anthos on bare metal, with Anthos
enabled to be deployed on Equinix Metal directly.
- In August 2021, Equinix Metal
certified as a solution to run IBM and Red Hat applications with an
initial focus on Red Hat OpenShift, delivered via IBM Cloud
Satellite.
- In August 2021, the Equinix Metal
product was added as a supported cloud within Platform9 Managed
Kubernetes (PMK). This followed a new Terraform Module for
deploying PMK on Equinix Metal in February
2021.
- The Equinix Metal team joined the major public clouds as a
fully supported infrastructure provider on the Gardener Project in
September 2021.
- Rafay, Kinvolk Lokomotive, CodeZero and Joyent Triton updated
their support in Q3 2021, including documentation and technical
guides for deploying on Equinix Metal.
- Cloud Provider Equinix Metal (CPEM) 3.2 released in
July 2021 and included dozens of
improvements to enable the Equinix Metal partner ecosystem.
- Equinix investments in the cloud native community continue to
reinforce the company's commitment to fueling Open Source
innovation, including Tinkerbell, a bare metal provisioning
platform Equinix donated to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation
(CNCF) program as a sandbox project in November 2020.
- Additionally, in November 2020
Equinix tripled its investment in the CNCF's Community
Infrastructure Lab (CIL), enabling innovators throughout the CNCF
community to access up to US$1
Million of powerful on-demand infrastructure resources per
year across Equinix's global footprint.
Quotes:
- Justin Head, VP of DevOps,
Super League Gaming
"We've been impressed with how easy
the Equinix Metal team has made deploying and managing Kubernetes
on bare metal. The work they have done on the Cluster API made it
even easier than expected, and their support has been top notch. We
also appreciated the freedom to choose a cutting-edge Kubernetes
networking option early on, which is now becoming an industry
standard. This ability to stay out in front helps us ensure
dynamic, real-time content and video game experiences for our end
users at Super League, at scale, wherever in the world they
live."
- Sheng Liang, President of
Engineering and Innovation, SUSE
"Providing our customers
with an intuitive experience when running cloud-native workloads
across diverse infrastructure has been core to
the Rancher value proposition since the beginning of the
Kubernetes story. Having partnered with the Equinix Metal team
since the early days, it's great to see their reach grow alongside
SUSE Rancher's. With Equinix Metal available in global metro
locations, our customers can deploy SUSE Rancher to span
from core data center through near edge, and then go all the way to
the far edge with K3s."
- Regis Paquette, VP Global
Alliances, Public Cloud and Channels, Canonical
"As a long-time Equinix partner, we have witnessed the wide
adoption of Ubuntu on Equinix Metal. The integration of Canonical's
Charmed Operator framework with Equinix Metal provides a multicloud
orchestration solution for traditional and cloud native workloads
with bare metal performance. We are excited our partnership
now also allows us to provide a managed Kubernetes service on
Equinix Metal for customers who prefer to focus on the applications
and business outcomes only."
Additional Resources
- Going Hybrid with Kubernetes [blog]
- Equinix Metal [website]
- Equinix Metal Expansion Equips Digital Leaders to Harness
Physical Infrastructure at Software Speed [press release]
- Equinix Triples Investment in Cloud Native Computing Foundation
to Fuel Open Source Innovation [press release]
- Equinix Kubernetes Partner Solutions [website]
- Join us at Equinix booth (S70) at KubeConNA '21
About Equinix
Equinix (Nasdaq: EQIX) is the world's digital infrastructure
company, enabling digital leaders to harness a trusted platform to
bring together and interconnect the foundational infrastructure
that powers their success. Equinix enables today's businesses to
access all the right places, partners and possibilities they need
to accelerate advantage. With Equinix, they can scale with agility,
speed the launch of digital services, deliver world-class
experiences and multiply their value.
Forward-Looking Statements
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involve risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ
materially from expectations discussed in such forward-looking
statements. Factors that might cause such differences include, but
are not limited to, the challenges of acquiring, operating and
constructing IBX data centers and developing, deploying and
delivering Equinix products and solutions, unanticipated costs or
difficulties relating to the integration of companies we have
acquired or will acquire into Equinix; a failure to receive
significant revenues from customers in recently built out or
acquired data centers; a failure to complete any financing
arrangements contemplated from time to time; competition from
existing and new competitors; the ability to generate sufficient
cash flow or otherwise obtain funds to repay new or outstanding
indebtedness; the loss or decline in business from our key
customers; risks related to our taxation as a REIT; and other risks
described from time to time in Equinix filings with the Securities
and Exchange Commission. In particular, see recent Equinix
quarterly and annual reports filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission, copies of which are available upon request from
Equinix. Equinix does not assume any obligation to update the
forward-looking information contained in this press
release.
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