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Publication Date: 2026-10-30 06:46:00
Nutanix has upgraded its Karbon Kubernetes distribution with the goal of making it easier for IT generalists to deploy and manage containers on its hyper-converged infrastructure systems.
Nutanix Karbon first launched in April 2019, part of a trend of storage systems supporting containers in anticipation that they will soon be used for production and require persistent storage. This includes even virtualized systems, such as HCI.
Christian Perry, infrastructure research manager at 451 Research, said his firm’s research finds enterprise customers often run containers with VMs. While this practice may not be great for performance, it isolates application workloads for better security than running them on containers alone.
“Like any HCI vendor, Nutanix has no choice but to provide some sort of container or Kubernetes support in their platform,” Perry said.
Nutanix’s goal for Karbon is to enable deployment Kubernetes clusters for containerized-based applications in on-prem data centers. Nutanix Karbon 1.0 used open APIs and a Container Storage Interface driver to integrate with Nutanix Volumes and Nutanix Files storage to provision persistent storage for containerized applications.
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