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July 2021

SQL Made Simple for vSphere-powered Data Centers

Today we’re announcing a new feature of VMware Tanzu SQL called Data Management for VMware Tanzu. It offers a convenient user interface that simplifies the operation, automation, and scalability of Tanzu SQL databases (Postgres and MySQL); this same convenience is also available from a comprehensive set of APIs.

Getting Started with kapp

In this video Tiffany Jernigan (twitter.com/tiffanyfayj) talks about the Carvel toolset tool, kapp. kapp (part of the open source Carvel suite) is a lightweight application-centric tool for deploying resources on Kubernetes. Being both explicit and application-centric it provides an easier way to deploy and view all resources created together regardless of what namespace they’re in. Being dependency-aware, it is able to wait for resources to be created, updated, or deleted, and provides a live status on the progress of the actions. Continue on to see how to get started with kapp.

Tanzu Tuesdays 62 - Monitoring Avail. w/Error Budget Burn Rate on Tanzu Observability w/Amber Salome

Starting in April of 2020 my team was tasked with managing Tanzu Application Service on multiple foundations for a client. Early on it was a priority to establish a strong SRE practice around managing the platform. This talk discusses how we defined key metrics for monitoring availability, custom solutions for populating availability data into an observability platform (Tanzu Observability by Wavefront), dashboard creating, and alerting practices. We discuss in depth the benefits of using a burn rate when monitoring availability error budget consumption, and how this strategy allows for more sensitive alerting and limiting error budget consumption.

Cloud Native Runtimes for VMware Tanzu Is Now GA, Plus an Integration with TriggerMesh

Back in March, during our Cloud Transformation event, we released the public beta of Cloud Native Runtimes for VMware Tanzu, which is based on Knative serving and eventing technology. Today, we have a couple of new, exciting announcements to make about Cloud Native Runtimes.

Demo: VMware Tanzu Standard Edition with Microsoft Azure

In this demo, we are going to look at using VMware Tanzu Standard edition with Microsoft Azure. Namely, the two products that will be seen are Tanzu Kubernetes Grid and Tanzu Mission Control. Tanzu Kubernetes Grid is the enterprise container runtime that utilizes cluster API to enable full lifecycle management. Global or fleet-wide management is the capability brought by Tanzu Mission Control. Tanzu Mission Control can inherit Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters to do provisioning and lifecycle management through its intuitive graphical user interface.

Tanzu Standard Edition: A Technical Overview in 8 Minutes

VMware Tanzu Standard builds on the foundation of Tanzu Basic by going further than Kubernetes lifecycle management. Tanzu Standard brings capabilities beyond vSphere, enabling a consistent Kubernetes experience across clouds, managing those Kubernetes clusters in a consistent fashion, and improving the security and governance using policy management at a global level. This video is a high-level look at the components to get you familiarized with them.

Why Path-to-Production Analysis Is a Must for Software Development Teams

One of the key metrics IT leaders care about is the total time it takes for a release to go from development to being live in production. The metric used to measure that duration is called the “release lead time.” It can range from days to months, depending on factors such as team agility, enterprise constraints, and interdependencies.

How to Build a Strong Open Source Community: Best Practices and Lessons Learned

When the VMware Tanzu Community Engagement team assembled three years ago, we did so with the belief that strong, sustainable community engagement is a crucial component of successful open source projects. With a mission of helping to build up and improve communities, we set out to support several VMware-originated open source projects.