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The adoption and maturation of Kubernetes has been rapid, driven by organizations moving to cloud-native infrastructures to modernize and gain agility. The Kubernetes growth trajectory reached a climax in 2021 as The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) declared it “the year Kubernetes crossed the chasm.” The CNCF Annual Survey 2021 found that 96% of organizations were using or evaluating Kubernetes.
VMware Tanzu Application Service is a modern application platform for enterprises that want to continuously deliver and run microservices across clouds. Tanzu Application Service provides application development teams an automated path to production for custom code, and a secure, highly available runtime that scales to support the most demanding operations teams.
Camille Crowell and Corey Dinkens contributed to this blog post. The VMware Tanzu team continues to work with our cloud provider partners to offer a streamlined, vendor-agnostic Kubernetes management platform. In our ongoing commitment to support customers in their multi-cloud application modernization efforts, the VMware Tanzu Mission Control team will be introducing a preview* of lifecycle management for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) clusters in the coming months.
At VMware, we are on a mission to build a comprehensive, extensible, and intelligent monitoring and observability platform to help businesses run seamlessly. Over the past few years, we have evolved our platform to deliver invaluable end-to-end observability across applications and infrastructure.
Danielle Burrow and Munjal Munshi contributed to this blog post. Every modern enterprise is building applications to generate revenue, connect people and systems, and automate processes. Modern applications, architected to take advantage of the flexibility and efficiencies of the cloud, are projected by IDC to surpass traditional apps by 2024.
If you are using Argo CD, you may be already familiar with how the Application CRD (Custom Resource Definition) object helps you logically group together your Kubernetes Manifests. The Application object is the atomic unit of work in Argo CD, and you should think of all your Kubernetes objects that are in an Application as a single entity. Applications are also autonomous. Meaning that, by design, one Application doesn’t know about the status or health of another Application.