Arista Networks Inc. this week launched two new cloud networking tools that should help companies streamline virtual machine and Kubernetes container operations in both multicloud and on-premises information technology environments.

Arista made its name as a maker of networking hardware such as Ethernet switches and routers, but in recent years it has positioned itself as a “cloud networking” company that sells software to help customers to maintain highly scalable networks.

Today there’s more specialized networking software such as Arista’s CloudEOS, which is available in two flavors: CloudEOS Multi Cloud and CloudEOS Cloud Native.

The former is a virtual machine that helps normalize network connectivity between public clouds, simplifying the networking operating model while enabling declarative software-based provisioning through popular DevOps tools. The latter is an instance of EOS that’s deployed as a Kubernetes Container Network Interface or as a standalone Kubernetes container to provide a fully supported, enterprise-class networking stack within cloud native environments.

Both offerings can scale capacity up and down automatically in real-time as the situation demands, and are completely provisioned via software, Arista said. The benefit is a more elastic cost model for network connectivity.

“Watching a client deploy hundreds of networks, across multiple cloud providers, in minutes without ever touching a network CLI is magical,” said Douglas Gouray, vice president and general manager of cloud networking at Arista. “CloudEOS simplifies networking for any cloud environment, securely, declaratively and elastically.”

CloudEOS also ensures security by encrypting all traffic that goes through public internet connections.

Arista said CloudEOS is available now on pay-as-you-go pricing via Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. The product will be made available on Google Cloud within a couple of weeks, Arista said.

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