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Platform9 introduced a new managed Kubernetes service to run on VMware systems in order to reduce the complexity of wedding the hot container technology with the leading virtualization software.

Platform9, a SaaS-managed hybrid cloud provider, released a fully managed Kubernetes service on VMWare vSphere. This service is provided with a 99.9% uptime guarantee and live monitoring. This service provides the open source version of Kubernetes with no code forks.

Fully managed, enterprise-grade Kubernetes service that works out-of-the-box on VMware with 24x7x365 SLA guarantee enables enterprises to easily deploy and operate Kubernetes at scale, with no management overhead and no need for advanced Kubernetes expert

“VMware was never designed to run containerized workloads, and integrated offerings in the market today are extremely clunky, hard to implement and even harder to manage. We’re proud to take the pain out of Kubernetes on VMware, delivering a pure open source-based, Kubernetes-as-a-Service solution that is fully managed, just works out of the box, and with an SLA guarantee in your own environment.”

IT Operations and VMware administrators can now enable their developers with simple, self-service provisioning and automated management experience to deploy multiple Kubernetes clusters with a click of a button that is operated under the strictest SLAs.

The platform is built on a distribution that is 100 percent compatible with the upstream instance of Kubernetes made available via the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). It also permits organizations to run Kubernetes instantly from anywhere.

Platform9 Managed Kubernetes (PMK) is a fully managed service and claims to be enterprise & production grade Kubernetes on VMware vSphere platform. It can be up and running in a less than an hour.

Maskasky says Platform9 is betting that IT organizations will turn to managed service providers (MSPs) to consistently manage instances of Kubernetes running in both on-premises IT environments and public clouds. She notes that Platform9 already has more than 500,000 compute cores running Kubernetes or OpenStack that are being managed on behalf of organizations across 300 cloud regions.