VMware has announced "significant enhancements" to its vRealize Automation and vRealize Log Insight solutions.
During VMworld Europe 2016 in Barcelona yesterday, Pat Gelsinger, VMware's CEO, said the enhancement was designed to better address the needs of developers and IT teams. "VMware vRealize Automation 7.2 will debut out-of-the box support for Microsoft Azure as well as new container management capabilities."
With this release, the ability of IT and DevOps practitioners to use unified service blueprints to simplify the delivery of integrated multi-tier applications with application-centric networking and security will extend to Microsoft Azure, and currently supported clouds such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), VMware vCloud Air and the vCloud Air Network.
The solution will allow developers and application teams to quicken application delivery, and will feature Admiral, a highly scalable and lightweight container management portal, to deploy and manage containers to Docker hosts supporting operating systems that Docker supports.
At this time, VMware is testing Admiral to deploy containers to virtual container hosts on VMware vSphere Integrated Containers in a private beta. Over and above Admiral support, developers will be able to provision container hosts from the vRealize Automation 7.2 service catalogue.
They will be able to opt for either modelling containerised applications using unified service blueprints or Docker Compose. "Application teams will have the ability to build hybrid deployments consisting of VMs and containers, and cloud administrators will be able to manage container hosts and apply governance to their usage, including capacity quotas or approval workflows," the company said.
VMware added that the product is well suited to businesses that are required to support current apps while modernising them via the adoption of "micro-services and a cloud-native architecture".
"VMware's multi-technology approach across private and public clouds with support for containers and OpenStack affords customers the flexibility to manage their talent pools and technology stacks as needed today and over time," the company added.
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