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December 2020

How to Install Kubeapps Using vSphere with Tanzu and Tanzu Kubernetes Clusters

Looking for an easy application to deploy? Kubeapps dubs itself “your application dashboard for Kubernetes.” Through an intuitive user interface, you can deploy up to 80 applications. Learn how simple it is to get Kubeapps up and running using Tanzu Kubernetes Grid and vSphere with Tanzu.

I'm a VMware Admin: What Do I Do with Tanzu Kubernetes Clusters?

In previous blog posts, we’ve talked about the process of setting up vSphere with Tanzu (see our quick start guide) and creating your first Tanzu Kubernetes Cluster (TKC). As a vSphere Administrator, you might be saying to yourself, “This is cool and all, but what’s next? What’s an easy application to deploy?” The easiest target is the standard NGINX Kubernetes deployment, but that’s very basic.

(Almost) Everything You Need to Know About SRE

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is a hot topic, but what exactly does it entail? And do you have to follow the principles to a T in order to achieve benefits from it? If you’re searching for answers to these common questions, look no further. In this episode of the Cloud & Culture podcast, VMware Tanzu’s Hannah Foxwell explains the what, why, and how of SRE—from key principles (such as SLI, SLO, and error budgets) to real-life examples of enterprise adoption.

Improving Container Security with VMware Tanzu Build Service and VMware Tanzu Application Catalog

In this demo, you will see one method for how VMware Tanzu Build Service and VMware Tanzu Application Catalog can be used together to build a functional application stack. Each layer within these stacks will be automatically monitored for any patches or upgrades, and automatically rebuilt and ready to deploy. Not only will these systems keep all your containerized applications up to date, but further tools are provided to automatically scan all contained code for vulnerabilities, report on what is included in each container, and hashed to ensure a secure application dependency supply chain.

By Spurring Digital Transformation, COVID-19 Is Preparing Orgs for an Uncertain Future

What made the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns so novel in recent history is that they were true existential threats to many businesses. This was not a case of getting “Ubered,” whereby the erosion of revenue can take years to fully materialize. Rather, this was a case of companies needing to—sometimes literally overnight—expand their digital operations and adopt new business models.

VMware Tanzu Mission Control Now Integrates with VMware Tanzu Service Mesh

With the acceleration of digitalization, enterprises across all verticals are running more and more distributed applications deployed on multiple clouds. This poses a new set of challenges when it comes to maintaining, updating, and securing these distributed applications. Our customers are looking for solutions to connect and secure their applications for rapid delivery with minimal disruptions and code changes.

Tutorial: How to Use VMware Tanzu Mission Control to Remediate Kubernetes Vulnerability CVE-2020-8554

The upstream Kubernetes community recently discovered a security issue—CVE-2020-8554— affecting multitenant clusters that allows anyone who is able to create a ClusterIP service and set the spec.externalIPs field to intercept traffic to that IP address. There is no patch for this issue yet, and it can currently only be mitigated by restricting access to the vulnerable features.

Spring Cloud Data Flow for Kubernetes 1.2 Offers Real-Time Alerts and New Dashboard

We are pleased to announce that Spring Cloud Data Flow for Kubernetes 1.2.0 is now generally available. This commercial offering bundles the latest open source release of Spring Cloud Data Flow with several new features designed to boost developer productivity. The new product is supported by VMware as part of VMware Spring Runtime.

Kubernetes 1.20: A Big Release to Celebrate the End of 2020

Each Kubernetes release is driven by the community. The features that are delivered, along with the release cadence, are guided by Kubernetes contributors. This year presented a number of challenges that impacted the community and, as a result, the Kubernetes 1.19 release was prolonged and saw a large focus on stability, both in terms of testing and features delivered. After this prolonged release, there was just enough time to get one more release out for the year!

Analytic Workloads from BI to AI with VMware Tanzu Greenplum

VMware Tanzu Greenplum is a massively parallel processing (MPP) data platform based on the open source Greenplum Database project. It’s designed to run the full gamut of analytical workloads, from BI to AI. Because enterprise data lives and grows throughout an organization, it is suboptimal to copy large data sets between different systems as they aren’t able to perform fast enough, scale high enough, or offer the right features.

VMware Pivotal Labs Joins the AWS Partner Network as a Consulting Partner

We’re thrilled to announce that VMware Pivotal Labs is now an AWS Partner Network (APN) Consulting Partner for app modernization and software development. VMware Pivotal Labs is the software consulting arm of VMware Tanzu, itself a long-time Advanced AWS Technology Partner.

Tanzu Talk: Four Important DevOps Metrics

In this episode, I discuss four software and operations metrics to start with when you’re doing your digital transformation, app modernization stuff: deployment frequency, lead time for changes, time to restore service, and change failure rate. Also, I discuss my thoughts on TRRS vs. TRS cables, and USB-C variations.

Provisioning and Managing Tanzu Kubernetes Clusters on vSphere 7 from VMware Tanzu Mission Control

We are excited to announce integration between Tanzu Mission Control and Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Service, a component of vSphere 7 with Tanzu. With this integration, customers can centrally provision and manage the lifecycle of Tanzu Kubernetes clusters on vSphere 7 across multiple vCenter Server instances and/or multiple data centers via Tanzu Mission Control.

How VMware Tanzu Observability Helps Teams Move Faster and See Everything

Watch this overview of VMware Tanzu Observability to learn more about how its cross-silo view gives platform engineers, SREs, operations managers, and developers critical insight into the health of their apps, Kubernetes, and multi-cloud.

VMware Tanzu and Amazon EKS Distro Help Customers Make Best Use of Kubernetes

Today is another exciting day in the cloud native computing ecosystem, with AWS announcing Amazon EKS Distro—an upstream aligned Kubernetes distribution. EKS Distro offers consistency for customers who are deploying their apps on the managed Amazon EKS service and are looking for an on-premises deployment. A few things stand out about this effort, and we are excited to continue working with AWS to help enterprises realize the full potential of Kubernetes.