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“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.

Platform9, the leader in SaaS-managed hybrid cloud, today announced the industry’s first fully managed Kubernetes service on VMware vSphere with Platform9 Managed Kubernetes.

The new managed service, announced Monday, is available now worldwide through Platform9 partners, and Platform9 claims it’s the industry’s only fully managed Kubernetes service that works on existing infrastructure. It also delivers visibility and management across Kubernetes environments that are on-premises, in the public cloud, or at the edge.

Today, the team at Platform9, a company known for its SaaS-managed hybrid cloud, introduced a fully managed, enterprise-grade Kubernetes service that works on VMware with full SLA guarantee.