Cisco is getting deeper into the container world with the announcement on Jan. 31 that it is building its own Cisco Container platform. The new platform is based on the open-source upstream Kubernetes container orchestration platform.
The Cisco Container Platform will initially be available in April for Cisco’s Hyperflex server system architecture, with a plan to add support for bare-metal set to follow. The Cisco Container Platform adds Cisco’s own control plane services on top of Kubernetes to enable what the company aims to be a turnkey deployment mode