VMware has introduced Photon Platform, aimed at empowering enterprise IT operations teams to deliver containers in production on-premises and on VMware's public cloud, VMware vCloud Air. This was revealed from VMWorld 2015 Europe, in Barcelona.
Kit Colbert,VP & CTO, Cloud-Native Apps at VMware, says the platform is purpose-built for running cloud-native applications for devops and software as a service (SAAS) organisations. "Running cloud-native applications at scale requires a container-optimised platform developed for high churn workloads and an API-first model."
The Photon Platform meets this need, and features the right level of functionality to run cloud-native applications at scale. The Photon Platform is designed for devops teams planning to build out large pools of commodity computing capacity that solely run cloud-native applications.
He says these teams will have a choice of open container orchestration frameworks including Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, Mesos and Cloud Foundry to run on the platform. The technology - components of which will be open sourced- will also support dynamic continuous integration environments, platform as a service (PaaS) or SaaS deployments, and sizable data analytics clusters running Hadoop or Spark.
The VMware Photon Platform, which will include future integrations with VMware NSX, VMware Virtual SAN and VMware vRealize Suite, features new technologies, including VMware Photon Controller - a multi-tenant, API-driven control plane optimised for scale, churn and high-availability.
According to Colbert, this will allow automation-savvy devops teams to speed the creation of thousands of new containers per minute and support hundreds of thousands of total simultaneous workloads. The controller will be released as an open source project to help encourage broad input, testing and adoption from customers, partners and the community at large.
In addition, the VMware Photon Machine will include a new ESX Microvisor based on the proven core of VMware ESXi. It also includes Project Photon OS, a lightweight Linux operating system for containerised applications and optimised for VMware environments.
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