Owners
The Heptio company was founded in 2016 by two creators of the Open source software of Kubernetes intended for orchestration of container applications. Earlier they worked in Google where the Kubernetes project initially arose. Founders of Hetio - Craig McLuckie and Joe Beda - said that the mission of the new company — is simpler to make Kubernetes in use, and focused on delivery of the tools intended for expansion of experience with the original version of Kubernetes.
Heptio Ark and Heptio Sonobuoy became the first projects of Heptio. Ark represents the system of disaster recovery for Kubernetes clusters — sposob instant creation of the picture, backup and application recovery on the basis of containers. Ark writes a status of objects of API Kubernetes and the disks Persistent Volume (PV). In turn, Sonobuoyproveryaet the Kubernetes installation to make sure that it can pass the tests used for certification of releases of the version of Kubernetes.
The company provides these and other tools and examination to customers on a subscription.
2018: VMware buys Heptio
VMware signed the agreement on acquisition of the Heptio company which is engaged in development of the tools intended for expansion of experience with Kubernetes software. On November 6, 2018 the CEO of VMware Pat Gelsinger reported about it. The company expects to close the deal in the 4th quarter of 2019 financial year. She assumes that after Heptio acquisition its command should join a command of VMware.
After the deal is closed, projects, products and Heptio services based on the Open source software will be integrated into cloud solutions of VMware. It is, first of all, about integration of Heptio technologies into VMware of PKS (Pivotal Container Service) - the environment of orchestration of container applications based on Kubernetes software, follows from the words of the CEO of VMware.
Kubernetes represents the popular Open source software for automation of deployment, scaling and management of the containerized applications. VMware calls it the standard of orchestration of container applications. Gave TAdviser in the Russian office VMware assessment that in Russia, for example, about 80-90% of the enterprises which treat large business or already use, or are very interested in Kubernetes.
 | VMware and Heptio have a common goal - to develop Kubernetes as the open framework for multicloud infrastructure allowing the companies to run modern applications in any cloud, - Paul Fazzone, the senior vice president and the head of cloud applicaions of VMware noted |  |
Initially development of technology on which Kubernetes is based arose in Google and carried the name Borg. It intended for use in internal infrastructure of Google. In 2014 the company made codes of the solution open. Kubernetes in open form was transferred under management of Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), and is supported by many IT companies, including Microsoft, Red Hat, IBM and Docker.
PKS which offers VMware it is the specialized solution based on container service for application of the Open source software of Kubernetes at the enterprises and at telecom operators. It is designed to simplify deployment and operation of clusters of this framework.
In addition to basic functionality of Kubernetes, PKS offers enhanced capabilities in the field of orchestration of containers. According to statements of developers, in particular, it allows to develop bigger number of containers within one deployment and has expanded functions on management of these containers during all lifecycle.
The architect of business solutions of VMware company Artem Geniyev explains that PKS solves, including, questions with security, controllability, management for all lifecycle, support which arise at the large companies when using Kubernetes, as well as other open source software. In fact, in addition to the main platform of orchestration one more platform of orchestration developed by Pivotal is atop added. It monitors a status of the managing Kubernetes components.
Except PKS, VMware since 2018 offers one more option based on Kubernetes - VMware Kubernetes Engine (VKE). It is service within which at the request of the customer of Kubernetes it is developed in a public cloud of Amazon and it is supported by forces of VMware. Thus, the customer uses Kubernetes as service.
| | We actively participate in open source community and we supplement our products with the closed code technologies with the open code more and more. For this reason we purchased Heptio, - Pat Gelsinger noted | |
For the history VMware made more than 30 different acquisitions. Heptio - the first acquisition of VMware with the purpose to strengthen the positions in the field of Kubernetes. This step is entered in the business development strategy of VMware, one of the key directions of which is gain of the cloud direction. The expanded offer in the field of Kubernetes can promote that customers passed to this solution more actively and used cloud computing more.
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