Feasibility of hosting Smarts application on Cloud

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance

Issue/Introduction

Support for running Smarts application in K8s environment

Environment

Smarts - 10.1.x

Resolution

As of today June 2025, Smarts on Kubernetes is not supported, only offers standard installation and in Docker container.

However, if Smarts is installed on any cloud platform i.e Standard Smarts installation but on cloud instead of on-prem then it is supported as long as it is installed on supported OS as mentioned in support matrix (Operating System Requirements). 

Standard installation - Install the product

Docker container - Docker Installation Overview