VMware teams up with Pivotal, Google Cloud on new container service

Pivotal Container Service (PKS) will enable customers with on-prem infrastructure to quickly deploy enterprise-grade Kubernetes. On the second day of VMworld, VMware is announcing it's partnering with Pivotal and Google on a new service that enables enterprise customers to quickly deploy enterprise-grade Kubernetes on premise with vSphere. The new service, called Pivotal Container Service (PKS), allows for simple network and security provisioning with VMware NSX. It also offers constant compatibility with Google Container Engine (GKE). PKS is a commercial release of the open source Project Kubo, a collaborative, joint engineering effort between Google and Pivotal that delivers a BOSH-managed Kubernetes environment. With PKS, customers get all of the software-defined infrastructure as code from VMware and the automation and orchestration from Pivotal's BOSH, with Kubernetes layered on top.