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October 2020

Harbor to the Rescue-Operating a Secure Registry Without Restrictive Pull Policies

On November 1, 2020, Docker Hub will begin limiting anonymous and free account image pulls. While some may be upset about the change, it reflects a larger reality that takes into consideration the risks associated with consuming public content—most public repositories have some level of rate limiting to prevent denial-of-service attacks and customer metering—in addition to the cost of hosting public content.

Tanzu.TV - The Future of Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes with Paul Warren, Jared Ruckle, and Dieu Cao

Join members from the VMware cf-for-k8s project to discuss the latest news from CF Summit. We’ll show a demo of “cf push” atop Kubernetes, and discuss on how these two communities are coming together.

Tanzu Service Mesh Autoscaler Feature Demo

This is a demonstration of the Autoscaler feature in VMware Tanzu Service Mesh. With Tanzu Service Mesh Autoscaler, developers and operators have automatic scaling of microservices that meet changing levels of demand based on metrics, such as CPU or memory usage. These metrics are available to Tanzu Service Mesh without needing additional code changes or metrics plugins.

Tanzu Service Mesh SLO Feature Demo

This is a demonstration of the Service-Level Objective (SLO) feature in VMware Tanzu Service Mesh. Service-level objectives provide a formalized way to describe, measure, and monitor the performance, quality, and reliability of microservice applications. SLOs provide a shared quality benchmark for application and platform teams to reference for the purposes of gauging service-level agreement (SLA) compliance and continuous improvement.

Deploying Cloud Foundry for Kubernetes on a Tanzu Mission Control managed Kubernetes cluster.

Cloud Foundry for Kubernetes has reached GA! Watch Paul Czarkowski create a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Kubernetes cluster using Tanzu Mission Control ( don't worry CF4K8s works great on any Kubernetes cluster, even KIND ). Once the cluster is up Paul installs some infrastructure including the Harbor registry and then deploys Cloud Foundry for Kubernetes on the cluster using Harbor as its container registry.

vSphere with Tanzu Makes It Easier to Create Kubernetes Clusters Using vSphere 7.0 U1

The release of vSphere 7.0 U1 brings with it a lot of new enhancements to the platform’s core, while the four new Tanzu editions make it easier to package a complete Kubernetes solution. In the meantime, using vSphere with Tanzu has been simplified even more with use of the vSphere Distributed Switch as its main networking construct. Now your vSphere environment can be transformed into a Kubernetes powerhouse.

Concourse for VMware Tanzu Is Now Packaged and Optimized for Platform Automation

To be good at software, you have to run a cloud platform at enterprise scale. Automation is essential to this task. The automation of patches, updates, and upgrades is the hallmark of a healthy “platform as product” practice. At VMware, we’re always looking for ways to make automation easier for customers. To that end, our efforts have reached a new milestone: The new platform automation release of Concourse is now generally available.

VMware Tanzu Mission Control Achieves ISO/IEC 27001, SOC 2 Type 1, and CSA Star Certifications

Security and data breaches continue to be among the top concerns of organizations around the world. As a SaaS provider, we always make the information security of our customers our top consideration and build service and the operational controls around it, all while striving to adhere to the best security practices the industry has established.

Productive Developers and Automated Ops: Why Garmin and HCSC Chose Tanzu Application Service

If there’s one golden rule of digital transformation, it’s that developers must be able to develop new apps and features—quickly, simply, and securely. If there’s another golden rule of digital transformation, it’s that developers must be able to push that new code to production—quickly, simply, and securely. Without these capabilities, it’s less digital transformation and more digital lip service.

How to Install Tanzu Service Manager

Tanzu Service Manager allows you to connect application-enabling services running on Kubernetes to applications running on the Tanzu Application Service. In this video, watch step-by-step instructions to install Tanzu Service Manager. We walk through prerequisites to the installation, installing components such as the CLI, moving images to a container registry, configuring mandatory and optional parameters, and checking that everything has worked.

VMware Tanzu Service Manager Brings Services Running Atop Kubernetes to CF Marketplace

It’s now easier than ever to bring backing services running on Kubernetes to apps running on VMware Tanzu Application Service. VMware Tanzu Service Manager, now generally available, brings the cf marketplace lifecycle commands to services—such as databases, message queues, or caches—packaged for Kubernetes. You can download Tanzu Service Manager via the Tanzu Network.

VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition 1.9 Is Now GA

We’re excited to announce the release of VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition 1.9 with support for Kubernetes 1.18.8. This release reaffirms our commitment to providing a production-ready container platform for customers, aligned to upstream Kubernetes, with additional support for Windows Containers and Velero. In this post, we'll focus on some of the key capabilities offered in Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition 1.9 that further support customers with production readiness.

VMworld Recap: Modernizing Infrastructure and Applications with VMware Tanzu

A lot has happened since VMworld 2019. OK, that might be the understatement of the year. But in that time, VMware Tanzu has evolved into a broad portfolio for building and modernizing applications. Operations teams now have what they need to build a more secure software supply chain. And, at the foundation, vSphere pros have a simplified way to get started with Kubernetes.