Apcera today is launching what it claims is the first enterprise-grade container management platform. The idea is to provide a turnkey package that includes all the functions necessary for running containers — functions such as orchestration and networking, along with aspects such as security.
It would be like turning “containers” and their environment into a single product, packaged nicely and wrapped up with a bow. Something parallel is happening in OpenStack and cloud management, where startups such as Platform9 and ZeroStack are finding ways to figuratively shrink-wrap the cloud into an all-inclusive offering.
Here’s the tradeoff. Apcera made things simpler for the enterprise by selecting pieces of the environment ahead of time — orchestration, for example. There’s still a lot of flexibility to choose things like software stacks, but “we answered all the dependency questions for you,” says Josh Ellithorpe, Apcera’s lead architect.
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