Understanding VMware Kubernetes Orchestration
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[Music] hey how's it going his cute answer from the CCO visor calm Wolfe another CTO dose we're still here on the beautiful campuses of vmware paul you guys are gonna make me really jealous as i'll go back to chicago one we don't have nearly as much green in our office space the campus has just this was just beautiful I mean it's all the turtle passing thing there's notoriously a being worse specific thing so I'm joined with Paul for some GM of the cloud cloud platform cloud services cloud native which I am the general manager of the cloud native business unit here at VMware so cloud native will talk to the cloud services the group in a little bit lon and his team but talk to me what is the role of the cloud native group within VMware really simple anything to do with containers falls into my group so how we think about supporting development teams wanting to work with containers how we think about monitoring applications that are deployed in containers how we think about networking solutions around containers security solutions whether in the term kind of more traditional sense with with Sdn style networks or in the future as you start to think about services mesh and higher level networking services all that kind of falls into the the cloud native world here at VMware so some of the products that fall only your group is V V more integrated containers always just apple at dr cohn europe talk to your team about the viewers use cases or in the docker api docker space PKS which we'll get into a little bit and is Python is that part of your group or you guys just integrate with Ison photon OS I'm sorry full-time photon yeah so photon OS is a as a VMware homegrown Linux distribution it now underpins just about all the VMware products in our portfolio and it's also something that we're looking at using with other products around the Dell technologies family it is you know straightforward it's a it is a lightweight very modern Linux distribution we've got very quick patching capabilities it allows us to control our own destiny so that when we need to hit a patch of security vulnerability for instance around vSphere in the the distribution that it goes out on it's quick and easy for us to do that without having to work with third parties to figure all that out so dogfooding a little bit if it's a vmware OVA mm-hmm then it's more likely full-time or it's on a past it is on largely speaking today most things are there's a few cases where there are some things that happen in the data plane like with NSX some of the elements of NSX aren't yet there but they're there on a path to get there so when I think about containers I think docker kubernetes sure even meso sphere there's a ecosystem outside found releases Cloud Foundry csdf there's you know core OS even competitors rayet head you know but when I think of VMware in containers the the to don't mildew I'm thinking about stateful workloads that are that I need to vmotion stuff in and out of consistent databases just operating models that you know there's this whole pets vs.
cattle I think about when I think about VMware whether it's myth or reality I think about pets so help dismiss that why why should people pay attention to VMware's cloud native story so our customers are of which there are hundreds and hundreds of thousands of them out there they live in a multi-faceted world right there is no if I look at an enterprise customer today they've got applications running on systems that were originally thought of back in the 70s and 80s sitting alongside applications that have just been modernized that are running in containers right and our customers are looking for a common substrate a common infrastructure service to run all of those all of those applications without having to reinvent the wheel each time a new abstraction gets defined and so when you think about a container is a new type of virtualized workload you use the pet's vs.
i i've gettin some facts about this comment maybe about two years ago I said you know what a container sounds like the perfect workload to run us out of veal mmm because at the end of the day I don't care if it's bare metal as if I'm a developer I don't care if it's a bare metal piece of infrastructure that my containers running on I don't care if it's a virtual machine you have no as long as its friction free to the device just like that back there just long as I kiss a doctor up and pull my image and deploy my image great infrastructure I don't care I think that's bear it out we look at Netflix Netflix has their tightest to think of container orchestrations that they built themselves they said you know what the flexibility of building a VM I mean taking a VM based infrastructure and in this case ec2 and being able to carve up ec2 is based on these smaller container instances has created a greater level of efficiency even and translate into some real savings for their cloud-based infrastructure I think there's some validity in saying you know what this isn't a VM vs.
com I think under products and be use you can find the cloud native group until then talk to you next CTO dose stay tuned more coverage from VMware campus where we're going to talk to the cloud services group understand the difference between the cloud native group cloud services and what that has to offer enterprise VMware customers talk to you next CTO DOS follow us on the web the CTO advisor comm me on twitter at CTO advisor
