Cisco Tucks Kubernetes Support Into CloudCenter, AppDynamics

Cisco further stuffed its Kubernetes basket by adding support for the container orchestrator into its CloudCenter management tool and recently acquired AppDynamics monitoring platform. Fabio Gori, senior director of cloud solutions marketing at Cisco, said the moves are part of an ongoing process to ease Kubernetes deployments while not limiting the power of the platform. He noted this has become increasingly important as enterprises move toward multi-cloud environments but are running into complexity challenges. “We are one of the largest out there without a cloud of its own,” Gori said, adding that allows the vendor to approach Kubernetes from a cloud-agnostic angle. “We really try to be the glue of this multi-cloud space for enterprises.” Matt Chotin, senior director for technical evangelism at AppDynamics, said enterprises continue to balk at moving containers and Kubernetes into a production environment due to this continued complexity in the ecosystem. He noted that many of the blocks needed to support the move to production are spread across various avenues and projects. “Enterprises are being forced to cobble these all together, which makes them basically an open source aggregator,” Chotin said. “That’s not something they are prepared to handle at this point.” The updates follow up on Cisco’s launch of its Kubernetes-infused Container Platform earlier this year. That platform uses Kubernetes as a management and orchestration component to support enterprises that aremigrating workloads and applications into production environments.