Cloud Foundation 4.0 VMware Announced General Availability

VMware Inc. announced General Availability (GA) of VMware Cloud Foundation 4.0.  Cloud Foundation 4 was announced during its Modern Apps Launch event on March 10th and excitement around the latest version of VMware’s hybrid cloud platform has been growing since.  With Release 4.0, Cloud Foundation takes a significant step forward in offering customers a hybrid cloud platform that now supports native Kubernetes workloads and management, as well as your traditional VM-based workloads.

Cloud Foundation 4.0 pulls in the latest and greatest VMware products, including vSphere 7 with Kubernetes, vSAN 7, NSX-T 3, and vRealize 8.1.  VMware Cloud Builder and SDDC Manager are also integrated to provide Day-0 deployment of your private cloud infrastructure and ongoing provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle management of the core SDDC stack.

The most notable aspect of this release is the integration of Kubernetes into the platform through VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid and cloud-native services built into vSphere 7.  This integration makes containers first-class citizens of your private cloud alongside traditional VMs.  More impactful, having Kubernetes integrated into the platform extends Cloud Foundation’s consistent infrastructure and operations not just across hybrid clouds but up and down the full stack from underlying infrastructure to higher-level constructs that power modern apps.

Source: VMware Cloud Foundation Blog

VMware Cloud Foundation 4.0 Release Notes