VMware Updates PKS to Advance Enterprise Kubernetes

VMware announced version 1.4 of Enterprise PKS on April 23, bringing new functionality to help organizations operationalize the cloud-native Kubernetes container orchestration platform. PKS, which is an acronym for the Pivotal Container Service, is a joint product effort from VMware and its partner Pivotal, integrating Kubernetes with components from Pivotal as well as VMware. The PKS 1.4 update is based on the Kubernetes 1.13 release and integrates new security and automation capabilities, as well as the inclusion of VMware's NSX-T 2.4 virtual networking technology. "NSX-T 2.4 is included with a VMware Enterprise PKS license," Scott Buchanan, senior director of the Cloud Native Apps Business Unit at VMware, told eWEEK. "Part of the value of VMware Enterprise PKS is that the components—including NSX-T—are integrated, validated and more readily deployed by the customer." PKS was launched in August 2017 and has received multiple incremental updates over the past year and a half. The previous release was PKS 1.3, which was announced on Jan. 16, integrating support for Kubernetes 1.12.