VMware Snaps Up Another Kubernetes-Focused Startup
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VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger is making good on his promise to further integrate container technology into his company, announcing plans this morning to acquire Bitnami for an undisclosed amount. “Bitnami’s packaged application catalog enables developers to quickly and easily deploy open and closed source software to the world’s leading cloud providers as well as on their own servers,” Ayyar wrote. VMware explained that the Bitnami assets will allow its customers to deploy application packages to public or hybrid-cloud environments as a virtual machine (VM), container, or Kubernetes helm chart. Simply put, it’s the best way to run containers.” Gelsinger late last year said that containers were one of three priorities for the company in 2019, alongside its NSX platform and the ubiquitous cloud focus. Nevertheless, there is some long-term risk for vSphere in our view.” There is also a push to use virtualized or software platforms like Kubernetes in place of VMs as the basis for cloud native infrastructure deployments.
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