Over the weekend I was catching up on some of my internet readings, one of which is Timo Sugliani's excellent weekly Tech Links (highly recommend a follow). In one of his non-VMware related links (which funny enough is related to VMware), I noticed that the recent Container startup ContainerX has just made available a free version of their software for non-production use. Given part of the company's DNA included VMware, I was curious to learn more about their solution and how it works, especially as it relates to VMware vSphere which is one of the platforms it supports.
For those not familiar with ContainerX, it is described as the following:
ContainerX offers a single pane of glass for all your containers. Whether you are running on Bare Metal or VM, Linux or Windows, Private or Public cloud, you can view your entire infrastructure in one simple management console.
In this article, I will walk you through in how to deploy, configure and start using ContainerX in a vSphere environment. Although there is an installation guide included with the installer, I personally found the document to be a little difficult to follow, especially for someone who was only interested in a pure vSphere environment. The mention of bare-metal at the beginning was confusing as I was not sure what the actual requirements were and I think it would have been nice to just have a section that covered each platform from start to end.