Cisco Container Platform Aci
The cisco container platform also includes contiv for container networking which can be further integrated with cisco application centric infrastructure cisco aci enabling customers to deploy containers and build aci network policy definitions through kubernetes.
Cisco container platform aci. Cisco also added azure kubernetes service aks to managed services that natively integrate with its cisco container platform. The key is to enjoy these benefits without container silos and without compromising your networking and security requirements. Through the use of the apic third party services can be integrated for. Use cisco s aci plug in an industry standard calico network or if scaling is your priority choose contiv with vpp.
Cisco container platform is a turnkey production grade extensible platform to deploy and manage multiple kubernetes clusters. Contiv policies get pushed into the aci fabric so i get all. It s perfect if you need multi tenancy. More recently cisco has touted the use of sd wan technology to help.
It s also well suited if you have a mixture of virtual machines bare metal servers private cloud container platform. Cisco aci also serves as a platform for other services that are required within the data center or cloud environment. For environments with a cisco application centric infrastructure aci contiv a cisco container platform component will secure the containers in a logical policy based context. Cisco container platform offers seamless container networking enterprise grade persistent storage built in production grade security integrated logging monitoring and load balancing.
Those environments with cisco hyperflex hx can leverage the inherent benefits provided by hx storage and provide persistent volumes to the containers in the form of. Cisco aci is well suited in a medium to large data center and in multi cloud environment. Cisco container platform ccp automates the repetitive things and simplifies the complex ones so everyone can just go back to enjoying the magic of containers. Cisco container platform helps you get a handle on it once and for all.
It runs on 100 upstream kubernetes. The cisco aci system level approach extends the support for linux containers by providing tight integration of kubernetes a popular container orchestration platform and the cisco aci platform. All work seamlessly with ccp. In this interactive live demo webinar nicolas vermande a cisco technical marketing engineer will demonstrate how the integration between cisco aci.