Diamanti, a provider of bare-metal appliances optimized to run Kubernetes, has launched a technology alliance initiative in partnership with 15 other vendors that should make it simpler for channel partners to deploy integrated cloud-native solutions.
Initial members of the Diamanti Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) program include Aqua, CloudBees, Confluent, DataDog, Elastic, MariaDB, MongoDB and Splunk.
The goal of the program is to create template and blueprints that make it simpler to consistently deploy software from these vendors on Diamanti infrastructure, says Chris Noordyke, vice president of business development and alliances at Diamanti.
“The goal is to create joint solutions,” says Noordyke.
Those joint solutions should result in a better customer experience, adds François Déchery, chief strategy officer for CloudBees, who notes that Diamanti is already a member of a similar TAP initiative launched last year by CloudBees.
That level of cooperation between vendors in the Kubernetes community is critical because it provides customers and partners with confidence in the solutions that are being crafted, adds Déchery.
“It’s a sign of maturity,” says Déchery.
Adoption of Kubernetes clusters has been steadily increasing. However, as platforms such as the Jenkins X continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform continue to gain traction many organizations will find they have implemented Kubernetes without having to manually install it themselves. Platforms such as Jenkins X leverage the application programming interfaces (APIs) exposed by Kubernetes to automate the provisioning of the underlying Kubernetes cluster.
It’s too early to say how much traction bare-metal instances of Kubernetes will gain in on-premises IT environments. Most instances of Kubernetes running today have been deployed on top of a virtual machine. However, as Kubernetes continues to mature the debate over to what degree virtual machines represent unneeded overhead intensifies.
Whatever the outcome of that debate, there will be a significant segment of Kubernetes workloads running on bare-metal servers creating new opportunities for channel partners.
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