Many words have been written over the last couple of years about the importance of Developer Experience. And that’s for good reason. If your organization writes software, developer experience is affecting your business—for better or worse. I worked for over 20 years as a developer at a large software vendor, where it was taken for granted that developers needed the right tools and environment to get their work done.
The public preview for lifecycle management of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) clusters through VMware Tanzu Mission Control allowed users to create, update/scale, upgrade, and delete clusters with native Amazon EKS APIs through Tanzu Mission Control. Today, we are announcing this feature’s general availability (GA), including powerful capabilities based on customer feedback.
We are happy to announce that some of the widely used Bitnami-packaged Data Services Helm charts now support Service Binding Specification for Kubernetes. With this move, our goal is to improve the lives of platform teams and developers by removing the complexities around data services configuration and the secrets retrieval processes.
Today we are excited to announce our partnership with Upbound, a certified VMware Tanzu Application Platform partner! With this partnership, customers can deliver services across multiple clouds, more quickly and at scale, thus accelerating new capabilities and a better, more seamless experience.
VMware Application Catalog now offers enterprise support for Kubeapps, allowing customers to consume production-ready open source artifacts easily and efficiently! The ever-increasing adoption of open source software (OSS) by enterprises has led to a disconnect of sorts between the platform engineering and development teams.
The next major release of VMware GemFire is now available! GemFire is a high-speed in-memory database for low-latency applications. Focused on resiliency and consistency, GemFire makes it easy to scale your data and support business-critical applications, whether they are on-premises, in the cloud, or somewhere in between. GemFire 10* was pre-announced at the SpringOne Essentials conference in January and later released as a public beta.
As IT organizations attempt wide-scale cloud adoption, the importance of common best practices across applications and products is growing, sparking an exciting new conversation about platform teams and related disciplines like platform engineering. The problem statement driving the investment in platform teams is clear: developing, operating, and optimizing a modern application is becoming too complex for many product delivery teams to solve independently.
VMware Tanzu Application Platform is a single, end-to-end integrated platform solution that enables companies to build and deploy more software, more quickly and securely, through a rich set of developer tooling and pre-paved, customizable “golden paths” to production—all on any public cloud or on-premises Kubernetes cluster.
Despite turbulent economic times, IT budgets are staying flat or growing, with investment priorities focused on increasing operational efficiency and profitability, according to the latest State of the CIO survey. Enterprises are looking to optimize their existing IT infrastructures and do more with what they have to free up resources—including talent and funding—for innovation projects.
VMware Tanzu Application Service is a mission-critical platform that enables enterprises to deliver their applications faster with a secure path to production. Additionally, the platform can allow for improved engineering efficiency by offering a highly-automated, intrinsically secure, and resilient application runtime. Today, we are pre-announcing the release of VMware Tanzu Application Service 4.0!
Consolidating or exiting your data center is a complex and high-stakes initiative. Despite the many benefits of moving to the cloud, lifting and shifting workloads without a clear understanding of dependencies between workloads or without addressing underlying technical debt or security vulnerabilities can result in bigger, more expensive problems in the long term.
