VMWare’s Project Pacific Integrates Kubernetes With vSphere

At the recently concluded VMWorld conference, VMWare announced Project Pacific, a re-architected version of vSphere, which embeds the Kubernetes control plane inside it. It aims to enable unified management of containers and virtual machines in vSphere installations. Developers can use Kubernetes declarative syntax to manage VMs, disks and networks. This can be useful for teams that have heterogeneous stacks spanning containers as well as VMs. However, this applies only if their existing apps are on vSphere managed VMs. Project Pacific adopts the Kubernetes Namespace model so that VM operations and policies can be applied to Kubernetes objects. These include resource allocation, encryption, HA and snapshots. Project Pacific is a "re-architecture of vSphere with Kubernetes as its control plane", says Jared Rosoff, Senior Director, Product Management for Workload Management in vSphere.