Pivotal and VMware have teamed up to deliver commercial-grade Kubernetes distributions on both VMware vSphere and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
Pivotal Container Service (PKS), launching in Q4 2017, runs Kubernetes atop VMware’s infrastructure management tools—vSphere, vSAN, and NSX. It also taps a project from Cloud Foundry, Kubo, originally created by Pivotal and Google, to deploy and manage Kubernetes on VMware’s stack.
Containerized applications running on such a stack will have access to the services normally available only to VMs in vSphere. For instance, persistent storage for containers can be provided by way of VMware VSAN. It’s also possible to run PKS on VMware Cloud Foundation, VMware’s management system for private clouds running vSphere on either public or private infrastructure.