More and more vendors are acknowledging that hybrid is here to stay. Even cloud kingpin Amazon Web Services Inc. is making friends with on-premises holdouts with Outposts, an on-premises data center system that’s based on the same hardware AWS uses to run its own cloud. The question is how exactly do customers run applications across different environments? The resounding answer is “containers.”

Containers are a virtulized method for running distributed applications. Customers can run legacy or cloud-native apps on-prem or in cloud without altering their structure or development paradigm.

“There’s a lot of excitement to be able to repurpose that as an answer to multicloud or hybrid cloud,” said Greg Muscarella (pictured), vice president of products at Nutanix Inc.

The problem of data migration aside, containers and application program interfaces free apps to roam around multicloud. Quite a lot of companies are running Kubernetes (the open-source container orchesrator) on-prem, according to Muscarella. They can deploy Kubernetes in their own four walls and deploy containerized applications anywhere.

Muscarella spoke with John Furrier (@furrier) and Stu Miniman (@stu), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, during the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon event in Seattle, Washington. They discussed containers’ multicloud panacea and Nutanix’s new cloud-native stack. (* Disclosure below.)

Kubernetes at home, apps abroad

There’s currently a push to try to meet application developers where they are. If companies have an existing app they want containerized, it’s hard to knock out some foundational pieces like block storage, Muscarella pointed out. Startups struggling to stay alive another day may opt to go as fast as possible without regard to lock-in; while enterprise customers my be more prudent.

“These are guys who are jaded, have experienced the contract renewals with some of their favorite vendors,” Muscarella said. “And they don’t want to relive those mistakes again. So they’re very interested in having a very open ecosystem to play in.”

Nutanix has built a Cloud Native Stack on top of its core hyperconverged infrastructure platform. It offers one-click Kubernetes (Nutanix has its own Kubernetes distribution, Karbon). It’s designed with persistence in mind for enterprise apps. It offers Nutanix’s standard database management services.

“You get a high availability, production-ready cluster going in a matter of 10 minutes or so,” Muscarella said. Enterprises can build cloud-native applications with new types of tooling and deploy them anywhere.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon event. (* Disclosure: Nutanix Inc. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Nutanix nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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