Pivotal Container Service

PKS is a purpose-built container solution to operationalize Kubernetes for multi-cloud enterprises and service providers. It significantly simplifies the deployment and management of Kubernetes clusters with day 1 and day 2 operations support. With hardened production-grade capabilities, PKS takes care your container deployment from the application layer all the way to the infrastructure layer. Key features of PKS:

• Eliminates lengthy deployment and management process with on-demand provisioning, scaling, patching and updating Kubernetes clusters via simple CLI or API.
• Enables customers to access the latest stable Kubernetes release and gain constant compatibility with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
• Provides high availability for Kubernetes components (master, worker, etcd nodes) with rolling upgrades, health-checks and auto-healing of underlying virtual infrastructure
• Simplifies container networking and increases security with NSX, providing high availability, automated provisioning, micro-segmentation, ingress controller, load balancing and security policy
• Deploys Kubernetes clusters for both stateless and stateful applications
• Secures application deployments with an integrated enterprise container registry with vulnerability scanning, image signing and auditing.
• Integrates with VMware SDDC products including vSphere, vSAN, vRealize Operations, vRealize Log Insight and Wavefront by VMware 
• Supports multi-cloud deployment, runs on both vSphere and Google Cloud Platform.