It’s now apparent to most savvy IT professionals that microservices enabled by containers need to be joined at the proverbial hip to the ability to create microsegments using network virtualization (NV) software. Just how that’s going to happen is still a matter of debate.
VMware, for example, is bundling its NSX NV software with the Photon Platform that VMware created to natively run containers using a lightweight Linux host that supports the widely deployed VMware ESXi hypervisor. The goal is to increased container networking interoperability. Most recently, VMware extended that effort by adding support for Kubernetes container orchestration software to its Photon Platform.
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