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Three Transformations Powering App Modernization

The pandemic has accelerated digital business initiatives. Ultimately, it’s the application that delivers new capabilities to customers and employees; but transformation occurs at several layers to support those applications. At VMware, we see our customers navigating three transformations, each of which supports digital business and app modernization at different levels.

Celebrating VMware Tanzu's Momentous Year, and a Look at What's Ahead

App modernization has played an outsize role in many organizations’ digital transformation journeys throughout 2020. In fact, 70 percent of IT leaders indicated that they’ve prioritized app modernization efforts because of the pandemic, according to a September 2020 thought leadership paper commissioned by VMware in which Forrester Consulting surveyed more than 200 global enterprise CIOs and SVPs of IT.

Embrace DevSecOps for Modern Apps with VMware Tanzu Advanced Edition

As enterprises prioritize application modernization initiatives, moving rapidly to adopt containers and cloud native patterns, VMware is pleased to announce the availability of VMware Tanzu Advanced edition. VMware Tanzu Advanced meets the moment. It simplifies and secures the container lifecycle, enabling teams to accelerate the delivery of modern applications across multiple clouds—a real DevSecOps approach.

Learn How to Get Observability into Your Applications with New KubeAcademy Course

When developing applications for Kubernetes, which is a distributed system, developers and platform engineers need to know both how to monitor them and understand how they impact their business. There are several tools available to instrument Kubernetes clusters and code, but figuring out which options are the right ones can be challenging. That’s why we created the Introduction to Observability course on KubeAcademy.

I'm a VMware Admin: What Do I Do with Tanzu Kubernetes Clusters?

In previous blog posts, we’ve talked about the process of setting up vSphere with Tanzu (see our quick start guide) and creating your first Tanzu Kubernetes Cluster (TKC). As a vSphere Administrator, you might be saying to yourself, “This is cool and all, but what’s next? What’s an easy application to deploy?” The easiest target is the standard NGINX Kubernetes deployment, but that’s very basic.

(Almost) Everything You Need to Know About SRE

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is a hot topic, but what exactly does it entail? And do you have to follow the principles to a T in order to achieve benefits from it? If you’re searching for answers to these common questions, look no further. In this episode of the Cloud & Culture podcast, VMware Tanzu’s Hannah Foxwell explains the what, why, and how of SRE—from key principles (such as SLI, SLO, and error budgets) to real-life examples of enterprise adoption.

By Spurring Digital Transformation, COVID-19 Is Preparing Orgs for an Uncertain Future

What made the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns so novel in recent history is that they were true existential threats to many businesses. This was not a case of getting “Ubered,” whereby the erosion of revenue can take years to fully materialize. Rather, this was a case of companies needing to—sometimes literally overnight—expand their digital operations and adopt new business models.

VMware Tanzu Mission Control Now Integrates with VMware Tanzu Service Mesh

With the acceleration of digitalization, enterprises across all verticals are running more and more distributed applications deployed on multiple clouds. This poses a new set of challenges when it comes to maintaining, updating, and securing these distributed applications. Our customers are looking for solutions to connect and secure their applications for rapid delivery with minimal disruptions and code changes.

Tutorial: How to Use VMware Tanzu Mission Control to Remediate Kubernetes Vulnerability CVE-2020-8554

The upstream Kubernetes community recently discovered a security issue—CVE-2020-8554— affecting multitenant clusters that allows anyone who is able to create a ClusterIP service and set the spec.externalIPs field to intercept traffic to that IP address. There is no patch for this issue yet, and it can currently only be mitigated by restricting access to the vulnerable features.

Spring Cloud Data Flow for Kubernetes 1.2 Offers Real-Time Alerts and New Dashboard

We are pleased to announce that Spring Cloud Data Flow for Kubernetes 1.2.0 is now generally available. This commercial offering bundles the latest open source release of Spring Cloud Data Flow with several new features designed to boost developer productivity. The new product is supported by VMware as part of VMware Spring Runtime.