In most organizations two worlds live side by side today: virtual machines that have run for years, and a new generation of container applications. Two worlds usually means two platforms — two management planes, two backup regimes, two permission models.
The virtualization capability of an enterprise Kubernetes platform removes that split: virtual machines run on the same platform, under the same rules, as containers. In practice this means:
The legacy application doesn’t wait.
An application that can’t move to containers lives on as a virtual machine on the same platform; modernization proceeds at its own pace.
One network, one storage, one permission model.
A virtual machine and a container talk on the same virtual network and draw disks from the same storage.
The deployment pipeline covers both.
A virtual machine definition lives in code just like a container definition; changes go through the same approval flow.
The platform heals itself.
When a physical server fails, the workloads on it are restarted on healthy servers.
For organizations reviewing their virtualization costs, this architecture offers a path to one platform instead of two.
Related service:
Enterprise Kubernetes Platform Deployment & Operations