Container-Optimized Cloud Platform
Introduction to VMware Photon Platform
It’s no longer the big beating the small, but the
fast beating the slow.
- Eric Pearson, CIO, International Hotel Group (IHG)
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Container technology has emerged in response to these demands.
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Container
Simple Lightweight Portable
Boot environments rapidly Minimal resources needed(i.e., runs on laptop)
Ability to move containers freely
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Cloud Native Apps
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Containers
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What is a container?
Server
Host OS
Docker Engine
App
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LibsBins/
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Container
A container includes an application and all its runtime dependencies.
It shares the same host OS
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Each container has it’s own set of processes
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Virtual Machines VS. Containers:
Containers share the
kernel of the same OS.
Usually, containers can
only run a single
application VMs can run
multiple applications
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Containers are cool, but certainly not new
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Container Adoption
* Hope Versus Reality: Containers in 2016, Cloud Foundry, Global Perception Study, June 16, 2016
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Container Adoption
“By 2018, more than 50% of new workloads will be
deployed into containers in at least one stage of the
application life cycle.”
Gartner: Containers Will Change Your Data Center Infrastructure and Operations Strategy
Published: 28 March 2016
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Container will change your data center infrastructure
Containers
IN DEVELOPMENT
Containers
IN PRODUCTION
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Evolving Infrastructure
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You need a new data center infrastructure and operations strategy
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VirtualInfrastructure
Enterprise ContainerInfrastructure
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VMware Photon Platform - A Container-Optimized Cloud Platform
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Container-Optimized Cloud Platform
For Cloud Native Apps
PhotonPlatform
Enterprise Container Infrastructure
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With Photon Platform
Simplifies Accelerates Secures
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VMware Photon Platform — Simplifies
Storage
Networking
Compute
Security
Opera
tions
Physical Infrastructure
Developer Services
Optimized for Cloud Native Deployment
Integrated End-to-End Solution
Simple to Set-up and Operate
Backed by VMware
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VMware Photon Platform — Accelerates
Security
Opera
tions
Physical Infrastructure
Photon Controller Massive Scalability
Support High-Churn
Infrastructure as a Service
Kubernetes Docker Harbor
Rest API
Pivotal
Cloud
Foundry
Service
Manager
Open API and CPI
StorageNetworkingCompute
Developer Services
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VMware Photon Platform — Secures
Security
Opera
tions
Physical Infrastructure
Photon Controller
Kubernetes Docker Harbor
Rest API
Pivotal
Cloud
Foundry
Service
Manager
Multi-te
nancy
Physical Infrastructure
Multi-tenancy Across the Stack
Identity and Access Management
Certificate management and rotation across hosts
Isolated workloads
Tenants and Projects isolation
StorageNetworkingCompute
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Developer-Ready Infrastructure Platform
Public Cloud Experience in A Private Cloud Environment
Developers
Enterprise-grade Infrastructure Stack Optimized for Containers
IT Operators
Modern Developer Experiences
Container as a Service
Infrastructure as a Service
Integrated End-to-End Solution
Production-grade Security
Simplicity in Set-up and Operations
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Differentiators
Developer-Ready Platform -Deeper Integration with Popular
App Frameworks
VMware-backed, Enterprise-Grade Solution
Simple, Out-of-box Solution Covering the Entire Infrastructure Stack
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Key Benefits
Unprecedented Speed and Agility
Highest-DegreeSecurity
Optimized Cost of Workloads
Begin your cloud-native journey with
To learn more:Visit us at https://www.vmware.com/products/photon-platform.htmlOn Github: https://vmware.github.io/