The next big evolution of VMware vSphere platform will integrate Kubernetes

VMware as a company is looking at how they can serve all the needs of customers in the cloud era, which involves everything from VMware on AWS to essentially helping enterprises embrace modern ways of writing applications.Last year, VMware acquired Kubernetes’ parent company Heptio. A few months ago, they announced plans to deeply integrate and embed Kubernetes into the next version of vSphere. This is being considered as the biggest evolution of vSphere in the last decade. Kubernetes isn’t something new as far as container orchestration is concerned. The open source software has tremendous potential, given its capabilities of automating application deployment, scaling and management. Despite that, the software is yet to reach widespread deployment even after so many years. Things however are set to change very fast with VMware’s acquisition of Kubernetes.