“Kubernetes provides OpenShift users with a powerful model for application orchestration, leveraging concepts like pods and services, to deploy (micro)services that inherently span multiple containers and application topologies that will require wiring together multiple services. Pods can be optionally mapped to storage, which means you can run both stateful and stateless services in OpenShift. Kubernetes also provides a powerful declarative management model to manage the lifecycle of application containers. Customers can then use Kubernetes’ integrated scheduler to deploy and manage containers across multiple hosts. As a leading contributor to both the Docker and Kubernetes open source projects, Red Hat is not just adopting these technologies but actively building them upstream in the community.” - Joe Fernandes, Director of Product Management for Red Hat OpenShift.
Huawei, a leading global ICT technology solution provider, will offer container as a service (CaaS) built on Kubernetes in the public cloud for customers with Docker based applications. Huawei CaaS services will manage multiple clusters across data centers, and deploy, monitor and scale containers with high availability and high resource utilization for their customers. For example, one of Huawei’s current software products for their telecom customers utilizes tens of thousands of modules and hundreds of instances in virtual machines. By moving to a container based PaaS platform powered by Kubernetes, Huawei is migrating this product into a micro-service based, cloud native architecture. By decoupling the modules, they’re creating a high performance, scalable solution that runs hundreds, even thousands of containers in the system. Decoupling existing heavy modules could have been a painful exercise. However, using several key concepts introduced by Kubernetes, such as pods, services, labels, and proxies, Huawei has been able to re-architect their software with great ease.
Huawei has made Kubernetes the core runtime engine for container based applications/services, and they’ve been building other PaaS components or capabilities around Kubernetes, such as user access management, composite API, Portal and multiple cluster management. Additionally, as part of the migration to the new platform, they’re enhancing their PaaS solution in the areas of advanced scheduling algorithm, multi tenant support and enhanced container network communication to support customer needs.
“Huawei chose Kubernetes as the foundation for our offering because we like the abstract concepts of services, pod and label for modeling and distributed applications. We developed an application model based on these concepts to model existing complex applications which works well for moving legacy applications into the cloud. In addition, Huawei intends for our PaaS platform to support many scenarios, and Kubernetes’ flexible architecture with its plug-in capability is key to our platform architecture.”- Ying Xiong, Chief Architect of PaaS at Huawei.
“There are two main reasons for our move to Kubernetes: One, by taking care of the lower layers in a truly scalable fashion, Kubernetes lets us focus on providing a great product at the application layer. Two, the portability of Kubernetes allows us to expand our PaaS offering to on-premises, private cloud and a multitude of alternative infrastructure providers.” - Brian Rosner, Chief Architect at Eldarion (the driving force behind Gondor)
- Martin Buhr, Google Business Product Manager