What is vSphere Integrated Containers Engine?

vSphere Integrated Containers Engine is a container runtime for vSphere, allowing developers familiar with Docker to develop in containers and deploy them alongside traditional VM-based workloads on vSphere clusters, and allowing for these workloads to be managed through the vSphere UI in a way familiar to existing vSphere admins.

vSphere Integrated Containers Engine is a component of vSphere Integrated Containers.

See the official vSphere Integrated Containers product page on vmware.com for a high level overview.

Get vSphere Integrated Containers Engine

You obtain an official VMware release from the vSphere Integrated Containers download page on vmware.com.

vSphere Integrated Containers Engine source code is available from the VMware vSphere Integrated Containers Engine GitHub source repository.

You can download the latest tagged OSS release of vSphere Integrated Containers Engine from the vSphere Integrated Containers Engine releases page on Github.com. Tagged versions of vSphere Integrated Containers Engine have been tested and released to the community, but might not reflect the most up-to-date version of the code

You can download the latest built binaries of vSphere Integrated Containers Engine. Builds usually happen after every successful merge into the source code. These builds have been minimally tested for integration.

Getting Started

You can find documentation for vSphere Integrated Containers Engine at https://vmware.github.io/vic-product/.

Support

Full support of vSphere Integrated Containers Engine requires a vSphere Enterprise Plus or vSphere Remote Office Branch Office (ROBO) Advanced license and an official VMware release of vSphere Integrated Containers Engine. To make a support request, contact VMware Global Support.

All other releases of vSphere Integrated Containers Engine are released as open source software and come with no commercial support.

For general questions, visit the vSphere Integrated Containers Engine channel on Slack.com. If you do not have an @vmware.com or @emc.com email address, sign up at https://code.vmware.com to get an invitation.

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Contributing

The vSphere Integrated Containers project team welcomes contributions from the community. If you wish to contribute code, we require that you first sign our Contributor License Agreement and return a copy to osscontributions@vmware.com before we can merge your contribution.

License

vSphere Integrated Containers Engine is comprised of many open source software components, each of which has its own license that is located in the source code of the respective component as well as documented in the open source license file in the vSphere Integrated Containers Engine repository.