Containers as a Service in Middle East and Africa

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.

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.