VMware Bakes Kubernetes into vSphere 7, Fleshes Out Tanzu
Data Center Knowledge | March 10, 2020
The grafting of the data center’s most pervasive software infrastructure manager with hypervisor-based virtualization is now officially complete. Containerized orchestration is no longer the “alternative” software infrastructure. In what may have been an accelerated product deployment, VMware today announced vSphere 7, its first virtualized applications and services platform to instill Kubernetes in two separate, critical layers of its architecture: workload staging and execution. Kubernetes is the open source workload orchestrator born from the Docker movement of 2015. “With vSphere 7, what we’re doing is fundamentally modernizing vSphere itself,” Kit Colbert, VMware’s VP and CTO for cloud platforms, said during a recent press conference. “We’ve re-architected it to integrate with Kubernetes, so this is a pretty foundational change.”