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Buzz words around VMware


In VMworld’19, Pat has mentioned that Kubernetes is becoming the front and center of the company’s product strategy.
Sanjay poonan has declared that using containers in digital transformation is a  “birthright” of VMware.

wait wait.! what are these Buzz words? Why are they overused? Because they sound cool? or exciting? 


Lets break this down and understand this in detail.

Containers :  It’s a method to bundle packages of application and can be isolated with its Network, file system and its processes.  One of the famous container technology is “Docker”
Kubernetes : When I have huge number of containers I need someone to manage and orchestrate it, that is achieved thru a technology called “Kubernetes” -> Google’s product which was made opensource.

Related to VMware:

Project pacific : VMware is Embedding Kubernetes right into the core of vSphere. This will enable developers and IT operators to build and manage apps comprised of containers and/or virtual machines.
VMware Tanzu : It is a centralized control plane to manage Kubernetes clusters running within on-prem data centers and public cloud platforms.  Heard about PKS - Pivotal Kubernetes Service ? Yes Tanzu can be called as a rebranded version of it.

Why do you have to know about this?
VMware has always responded to market dynamics in a way to leverage its products for the customers. But this is the first time VMware is going to change and adjust its basic building blocks with the vSphere products to upper hand in Hybrid cloud. So it’s good to know about these buzz words as we are going to hear them quite often in the future ESXi releases.  So Stay tuned!

Reference links :
https://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/projectpacific.html
https://cloud.vmware.com/tanzu

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