Containers as a Service in Europe

Joyent’s product portfolio in the CaaS market consists of multiple offerings, namely, networking and security, security compliance, load balancing, ContainerPilot, access management, monitoring, and DTrace. The networking and security product provides automatic, universal DNS for the containers, multi-layered VLANs, network modeling, default access with SSH keys, global and local firewalls, RBAC, and container security.

Google is one of the key players which is significantly focusing on delivering innovative solutions and services to its end-users. Google Container Engine is a management and orchestration system for Docker container and container clusters’ that run within Google’s public cloud services.

Microsoft is one of the leading players offering container services. Azure Container Instance of Microsoft is a container scheduling and orchestration service for its Azure cloud computing service.

AWS is one of leading providers of cloud computing technologies, such as compute, storage, networking and content delivery, and analytics. Since its inception in 2006, the company has been focused on delivering the most advanced technology solutions and services to its customers.

Docker Enterprise Edition (EE) is the product offered by Docker in the CaaS market. Docker EE helps IT teams to manage and secure diverse applications across different infrastructures, both on-premises and in the cloud. The product offers a secure software supply chain that allows enterprises to ship more applications securely on a regular basis.

IBM is one of the leading companies, focusing on differentiating its business portfolio by providing new capabilities. IBM’s product portfolio includes IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service and other related services. The company provides a strong product portfolio by delivering secure, scalable, and reliable CaaS solutions and services.

Red Hat offers Red Hat OpenShift as its product in the CaaS market space. It is a comprehensive enterprise-grade container application platform which is based on industry standards such as Docker and Kubernetes.

Cisco acquired ContainerX, a privately held container management technology company in August 2016. With this acquisition, Cisco established its foothold in the CaaS market.

VMware offers vSphere Integrated Containers as its product in the CaaS market. vSphere Integrated Containers include 3 major components, namely, vSphere Integrated Container Engine, Container Management Portal, and Container Registry.

Apcera offers Apcera Container Management Platform in the CaaS market. The platform is based on container technology and provides high workload security through policy and enforcement. The platform provides a full-stack container management platform.

SUSE CaaS Platform is an application development and hosting platform for container applications and services that enable IT teams to provision, manage, and scale container-based applications and services. This platform consists of 3 main components, namely, orchestration, operating system for microservices and containers, and configuration.

Rancher Labs offers an innovative and fully integrated set of solutions in the CaaS market, including Rancher and RancherOS. Rancher is a complete container management platform that makes it easy to adopt, run, and manage Docker containers and multiple Kubernetes clusters.

The USP of Dynatrace in Containers as a Service is its comprehensive and automated monitoring capabilities. It monitors container performance and resource utilization in real-time and at scale, with insights that range from application availability and throughput to hardware metrics such as disk space and memory. It also provides pre-built dashboards and analytics for performance optimization. Moreover, Dynatrace includes unified DevOps integrations including Kubernetes, Docker, and Helm, enabling DevOps teams to monitor, optimize, and troubleshoot their applications quickly and efficiently.