Platform9, a startup founded by a group of former VMware engineers , on Tuesday added a managed Kubernetes service to complement its existing OpenStack product.
The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company delivers the Linux container orchestration technology, first developed at Google, through a Software-as-a-Service model, much like it does with the OpenStack cloud operating system. The Kubernetes product was first introduced at last year’s DockerCon.
The new offering puts in the hands of partners a portable, turnkey solution for deploying the container technology that’s often hampered in the channel by its operational complexity, said Sirish Raghuram, Platform9’s CEO.
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While OpenStack and VMware solutions are popular among tech companies and retailers that run virtualized workloads, applications built in the last year, or that will be built in the next, are often taking advantage of containers for their scalability, fault-tolerance and cost reductions, Raghuram said.
