Deploying packages to distributed Kubernetes clusters is time-consuming. Those in charge of provisioning and preparing infrastructure for application teams know the pain of preparing clusters for production. Provisioning is only the start of a laborious process required to prepare a cluster. Once the cluster is up and running, deploying tools for things like monitoring and security is a DevOps imperative.
We’ve all heard the proverb “necessity is the mother of invention.” But have you stopped to consider how very true that is for enterprise applications? Docker invented the lightweight container runtime to answer the needs of agile development teams building cloud native apps. The growing ubiquity of containers necessitated the invention of a way to manage them in large numbers across fleets of machines—what we now know as Kubernetes.
Enterprises worldwide are embracing innovations such as the cloud to solve their digital needs, but many face challenges with workload migration and application modernization. One way organizations can ease their application modernization journeys is to adopt the 5 R’s framework—rehost, replatform, refactor, retain, and retire—allowing them to choose the right migration strategy for their specific environment.
The Tanzu RabbitMQ team is excited to announce the general availability of VMware Tanzu RabbitMQ 1.2. This version contains RabbitMQ 3.9, a milestone core broker release that introduces Streams, a new data structure allowing for replay and higher throughput. In addition to Streams, Tanzu RabbitMQ 1.2 has some exciting new capabilities and improvements.
Kubernetes has become an ever-larger target for workloads across all industries. The public sector, in particular, experiences several hurdles in achieving effective utilization of this relatively new technology. Of particular concern for the public sector in the United States is the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS).
It is imperative for DevOps success that operations teams provide a good developer experience and that developers have what they need for productive workflows. When this is done automatically and seamlessly, teams can get code to production faster. However, it’s not enough to get code committed quickly. That code must also be compliant and secure. Developers should not find out at the last minute that they used a noncompliant package leading to hours of re-work.
At VMware’s annual SpringOne developer conference in September, we announced the first customer beta of VMware Tanzu Application Platform. Tanzu Application Platform delivers a pre-paved path to production and a streamlined, end-to-end developer experience on any compliant public cloud or on-premises Kubernetes cluster.
Credit: Unsplash What is monitoring? What is observability? Monitoring shows you how a Kubernetes environment and all of its layers are operating. Observability, on the other hand, is a measure of how well internal states of a system can be inferred from knowledge of its external outputs.
Today we are announcing the next step in the evolution of VMware Tanzu Application Catalog. Since its initial availability in March 2020, Tanzu Application Catalog has seen notable success due to its unique DevSecOps approach, which caters to the needs of developers, security admins, and IT operators. Tanzu Application Catalog offers a library of prepackaged, validated, production-ready open source container images that can be customized using base OS images of any customer’s choosing.
Kubernetes is a game-changing technological advancement, enabling infrastructure and operations teams to automate application deployment and management at scale. But it has also presented new challenges to developers. As organizations adopt cloud native application paradigms, they face a developer experience crisis due to the complexity of the cloud native ecosystem and a steep learning curve for developing applications for Kubernetes.
