Container software company CoreOS Inc. wants to help more companies adopt a “cloud-native” information technology infrastructure, and to do so it’s making its Tectonic Kubernetes solution available starting today on more platforms, including Microsoft Azure and OpenStack.

In addition, the company said it’s extending its Quay container image registry, which can now manage, store and automate the installation of complete applications for Kubernetes. CoreOS said its Tectonic installer is now available in preview for Azure and OpenStack, and can be customized to provide repeatable, automated installations across various environments. The updated installer comes with expanded support for Amazon Web Services and bare metal installs as well.

The company reckons its Tectonic installer is a critical requirement for companies looking to use the open-source software Kubernetes to manage their container infrastructure. And while that may not be true in every case, Tectonic can be useful for organizations looking for an easy way to deploy their Kubernetes clusters. The new environment flexibility and repeatability means users have more freedom to try Kubernetes on different platforms as it saves time with automated installs.

Tectonic’s update also includes greater functionality, with new developer components such as Dex and Flannel, and an updated Tectonic Console with improved navigation, menus and labels. CoreOS said enterprises can try Tectonic for free with up to 10 nodes.

Perhaps the bigger news, though, is CoreOS’s updated Quay container registry. With the update, the company claimed, Quay is now a “first of its kind” application registry for Kubernetes with the ability to automate the deployment of containerized apps thanks to an integration with Kubernetes package manager Helm.

With Kubernetes, applications are generally composed of numerous images plus the configuration files they need to run. What Helm does is to interact with Quay so it can pull out an application definition, then retrieve the required images and apply the configurations to automate the deployment of that app.

“We want everyone to be successful with cloud native technologies,” Brandon Philips, chief technology officer at CoreOS, said in a statement. “And the Quay App Registry is an example of new innovations coming from our continued focus on the Kubernetes community.”

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