Photon OS Description
Project Photon OS™, an open-source, minimal Linux container host, is optimized for cloud native applications, cloud platforms, VMware infrastructure, and other cloud-native apps. Photon OS 3.0 includes ARM64 support, improvements to the installer and updated packages. We invite customers, partners, and community members, to collaborate on Photon OS to run high performance virtual machines and containerized apps.
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Google Cloud Run
Fully managed compute platform to deploy and scale containerized applications securely and quickly. You can write code in your favorite languages, including Go, Python, Java Ruby, Node.js and other languages. For a simple developer experience, we abstract away all infrastructure management. It is built upon the open standard Knative which allows for portability of your applications. You can write code the way you want by deploying any container that listens to events or requests. You can create applications in your preferred language with your favorite dependencies, tools, and deploy them within seconds. Cloud Run abstracts away all infrastructure management by automatically scaling up and down from zero almost instantaneously--depending on traffic. Cloud Run only charges for the resources you use. Cloud Run makes app development and deployment easier and more efficient. Cloud Run is fully integrated with Cloud Code and Cloud Build, Cloud Monitoring and Cloud Logging to provide a better developer experience.
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Portainer Business
Portainer Business makes managing containers easy. It is designed to be deployed from the data centre to the edge and works with Docker, Swarm and Kubernetes. It is trusted by more than 500K users.
With its super-simple GUI and its comprehensive Kube-compatible API, Portainer Business makes it easy for anyone to deploy and manage container-based applications, triage container-related issues, set up automate Git-based workflows and build CaaS environments that end users love to use.
Portainer Business works with all K8s distros and can be deployed on prem and/or in the cloud. It is designed to be used in team environments where there are multiple users and multiple clusters. The product incorporates a range of security features - including RBAC, OAuth integration and logging, which makes it suitable for use in large, complex production environments.
For platform managers responsible for delivering a self-service CaaS environment, Portainer includes a suite of features that help control what users can / can't do and significantly reduces the risks associated with running containers in prod.
Portainer Business is fully supported and includes a comprehensive onboarding experience that ensures you get up and running.
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Telepresence
You can use your favorite debugging software to locally troubleshoot your Kubernetes services. Telepresence, an open-source tool, allows you to run one service locally and connect it to a remote Kubernetes cluster. Telepresence was initially developed by Ambassador Labs, which creates open-source development tools for Kubernetes such as Ambassador and Forge. We welcome all contributions from the community. You can help us by submitting an issue, pull request or reporting a bug. Join our active Slack group to ask questions or inquire about paid support plans. Telepresence is currently under active development. Register to receive updates and announcements. You can quickly debug locally without waiting for a container to be built/push/deployed. Ability to use their favorite local tools such as debugger, IDE, etc. Ability to run large-scale programs that aren't possible locally.
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AWS Fargate
AWS Fargate, a serverless compute engine that runs containers, works with both Amazon Elastic Container Service and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service. Fargate makes it simple for you to concentrate on building your applications. Fargate eliminates the need for provisioning and managing servers. It allows you to specify and pay per application for resources. Fargate also improves security by application isolation by design.
Fargate allocates the correct amount of compute, eliminating the need for instances to scale cluster capacity and choosing instances. You only pay for what you use to run your containers. There is no need to over-provision or purchase additional servers. Fargate runs each task and pod in its own kernel, giving them their own isolated computing environment. This allows your application to be isolated from the workload and provides greater security by design.
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Company Details
Company:
VMware
Year Founded:
1998
Headquarters:
United States
Website:
vmware.github.io/photon/
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Product Details
Platforms
Linux
Type of Training
Documentation
Customer Support
Online
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