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Offerings to use Kubernetes on VMware however tend to be a bit harder to find, since it wasn’t actually designed to run containerised workloads. The only prominent representative is – unsurprisingly – VMware Cloud PKS, which is maintained by Pivotal (hence the use of PKS, Pivotal Container Service). Platform9’s new service wants to change that.

Platform9 Managed Kubernetes (PMK) allows enterprises to be up and running in less than an hour with Kubernetes on VMware that is both simple to use and production-ready.

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 expertise

Platform9 Managed Kubernetes (PMK) allows enterprises to be up and running in less than an hour with Kubernetes on VMware that is both simple to use and production-ready.

Hybrid cloud provider Platform9 has announced a new managed Kubernetes service on VMware vSphere.

Normalization of infrastructure through open source technologies is one way to make the move to the cloud an easier process for organizations.

At KubeCon 2018, VMblog interviewed industry experts from StackRox, Platform9 and Binaris to talk about predictions and futures in 2019 within the IT industry, covering containers, Kubernetes and more.

They’re currently one of Platform9’s largest deployments: more than a 1,000 sockets and a workload that involves deploying Heat stacks hundreds of times a day.