Developer-Ready Infrastructure: NSX and Pivotal

Organizations across industries are embarking on their journey of Digital Transformation. Time-to-market has become very crucial to the bottom-line and companies need to accelerate their application/services delivery and go from concept to production in record time.

Organizations are embracing containers, micro-service based architectures, Continuous Delivery and Integration tools as they are completely trying to change how they develop, deploy and deliver applications.

However, moving from monolith application architectures to microservices-based ones is no ordinary feat.

Many of these organizations leverage Pivotal’s expertise to deliver a modern application development environment. Pivotal’s flagship cloud-native platform Pivotal Cloud Foundry provides a modern app-centric environment that lets developers focus on delivering applications with speed and frequency of delivery. To find out more about Pivotal Cloud Foundry, and the now generally available Pivotal Cloud Foundry 1.10.

Pivotal Cloud Foundry abstracts the underlying IaaS layer so that developers get a modern self-service application development environment, without worrying about the infrastructure. BOSH vSphere CPI plugin does a good job of consuming pre-created networks.

However, the truth is – “someone” always needs to do some provisioning – networks need to be carved out, load-balancers need to be configured, NAT rules need to be defined, reachability needs to Continue reading