I only look at this from a Pivotal perspective. No reason to look at it otherwise and it is cutting into my glass of wine and watching latest Star Wars move on Netflix as my rat terrier won’t move and let me it a foot up on my normally quite delightful (and surprisingly from Walmart) foot rest in home theatre. May need to employ violence here shortly to remedy. But he is so cuteeeee…
Anyways, two things: Some of the features of VKE such as Smart Clusters may eventually become available to PKS customers. After all, these are two different products from the same developers.. Yeah, but it is also like two brothers competing for the same cheerleader. But eventually they will get over the girl and become loving brothers again - maybe.
PKE has traction, Pivotal will continue to push PKS. VMware’s marketing team has a tough job ahead in differentiating VKE from PKS.
Since it just came out, not sure how they are measuring “traction” but I do like to hear it in reference to Pivotal.
In the end Kubernetes is not nearly as easily to manage and program for as is Cloud Foundry and particularly Pivotal Cloud Foundry. If you have become a PKF customer you are not going to look to VMWare to fulfill your needs. However, if you are skipping PKF and want to be more of a free spirit, and be dependent on none, and want to take more granular control, then you will skip PKF (at least for now) and go Kubernetes yourself. If you do that, at least according to this article, there are multiple better options than VMWare to go with.
And in the end, Pivotal is absolutely vendor neutral. You go with Pivotal, you avoid all lock in. This includes VMWare and Pivotal will have you up and running on VMWare Cloud, if that is what you want. VMWare, and none of the others, will reciprocate with all their competitors.
Hey, look at that. Drama upstairs. Beagle went into guard mode. Probably another frog from the pool attempting egress. Rat terrier felt compelled to jump off and run upstairs to patrol and guard and left my foot rest. All problems solved! Even my glass of wine some how was refreshed (I am blaming it on some mysterious force in the house and not something that I actually did. But will enjoy it regardless. Pity the poor phantom frog).
Tinker