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July 2022

Making the Most Out of PromQL with VMware Tanzu Observability

Rachna Srivastava contributed to this blog post. Given the popularity of Prometheus and the open source community behind it, it’s no surprise that customers often ask about support for the Prometheus Query Language, PromQL. Many users are already comfortable with PromQL but need the additional performance and scalability of the VMware Tanzu Observability platform.

How Tanzu Application Platform and the Backstage Developer Portal Improve DevX

As cloud native concepts and adoption take hold, many enterprises are now considering and implementing ways to achieve the primary objective of cloud native technology: enabling engineers to make significant changes to systems easily, frequently, and confidently. More and more enterprises are recognizing that cloud native technologies, such as Kubernetes, can indeed serve as the foundational infrastructure for building their own in-house platforms, greatly empowering their operations teams.

What's New with VMware Tanzu RabbitMQ for Kubernetes 1.3

Paula Stack and Roser Blasco co-wrote this post. As a refresher, VMware Tanzu RabbitMQ is based on the hugely popular open source technology RabbitMQ, which is a message broker with event streaming capabilities that connects multiple distributed applications and processes high-volume data in real-time and at scale.

Elevate App Development and DevSecOps Experience with New Integrations in VMware Tanzu Application Platform

Many businesses today rely on delivering modern applications that provide the best customer experience and competitive advantage on any cloud. Modern applications require a modern cloud native infrastructure. One of the clearest signs of cloud native technology mainstreaming (i.e., Kubernetes) is the rapid growth in the number of clusters being deployed in the multi-cloud environment.

Blueprint for Secure OSS Supply Chains

Open source has become a critical part of global infrastructure. Kubernetes and cloud native adoption is seeing record high growth, especially at large companies. An estimated 5.6 million developers use Kubernetes today. Alongside this growth, software supply chain attacks are on the rise with some reports showing them having increased 650% in 2021. These attacks have had huge knock-on effects to the extent that the White House has issued an executive order and additional guidance with recommendations and upcoming regulation.

VMware Application Catalog Now Accessible through VMware Marketplace

Neeharika Palaka and Shagun Tewari co-wrote this blog post. VMware Marketplace is VMware’s one-stop shop for all ecosystem solutions, with a robust catalog of more than 2,000 solutions covering open source software, first-party tools, and commercial software. VMware Marketplace is currently used by thousands of people to download, deploy, subscribe to, and purchase these solutions in a direct and easy way.

That's a Wrap for DevOps Loop 2022: Recap and Highlights

For the second year in a row, the DevOps community came together virtually for our DevOps Loop conference. This event allowed us to examine DevOps and its core principles in the context of modern applications, multi-cloud, and Kubernetes. Organizations are increasingly looking to internal platform teams to deliver an awesome developer experience while ensuring reliability, scalability, and security, by unlocking the path to production for modern apps and helping their products soar!

Introducing VMware Tanzu GemFire for Redis Apps

The release of VMware Tanzu GemFire 9.15 introduces compatibility with the VMware Tanzu GemFire for Redis Apps add-on. This add-on enables compatibility between Redis applications and Tanzu GemFire for the first time ever, unlocking enterprise-ready features for your Redis applications.

Drive Tanzu Mission Control Cluster Configuration and Add-ons with Flux CD

VMware Tanzu Mission Control users can now drive clusters via GitOps. This new feature of Tanzu Mission Control is built on Flux CD and enables users to attach a git repository to a cluster and sync YAML artifacts (using Kustomize) from the repository to the cluster. This feature provides a method for managing cluster configurations with Tanzu Mission Control via continuous delivery from a git repository.