The release of vSphere 7.0 U1 brings with it a lot of new enhancements to the platform’s core, while the four new Tanzu editions make it easier to package a complete Kubernetes solution. In the meantime, using vSphere with Tanzu has been simplified even more with use of the vSphere Distributed Switch as its main networking construct. Now your vSphere environment can be transformed into a Kubernetes powerhouse.
T-Mobile has been a vocal Tanzu Application Service user for years, and as that environment grows—along with its younger Kubernetes environment—the wireless provider is learning a lot of valuable lessons.
To be good at software, you have to run a cloud platform at enterprise scale. Automation is essential to this task. The automation of patches, updates, and upgrades is the hallmark of a healthy “platform as product” practice. At VMware, we’re always looking for ways to make automation easier for customers. To that end, our efforts have reached a new milestone: The new platform automation release of Concourse is now generally available.
If there’s one golden rule of digital transformation, it’s that developers must be able to develop new apps and features—quickly, simply, and securely. If there’s another golden rule of digital transformation, it’s that developers must be able to push that new code to production—quickly, simply, and securely. Without these capabilities, it’s less digital transformation and more digital lip service.
Security and data breaches continue to be among the top concerns of organizations around the world. As a SaaS provider, we always make the information security of our customers our top consideration and build service and the operational controls around it, all while striving to adhere to the best security practices the industry has established.
It’s now easier than ever to bring backing services running on Kubernetes to apps running on VMware Tanzu Application Service. VMware Tanzu Service Manager, now generally available, brings the cf marketplace lifecycle commands to services—such as databases, message queues, or caches—packaged for Kubernetes. You can download Tanzu Service Manager via the Tanzu Network.
We’re excited to announce the release of VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition 1.9 with support for Kubernetes 1.18.8. This release reaffirms our commitment to providing a production-ready container platform for customers, aligned to upstream Kubernetes, with additional support for Windows Containers and Velero. In this post, we'll focus on some of the key capabilities offered in Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition 1.9 that further support customers with production readiness.
A lot has happened since VMworld 2019. OK, that might be the understatement of the year. But in that time, VMware Tanzu has evolved into a broad portfolio for building and modernizing applications. Operations teams now have what they need to build a more secure software supply chain. And, at the foundation, vSphere pros have a simplified way to get started with Kubernetes.
The free availability of hundreds of thousands of open-source applications and components available as containers in public registries like Docker Hub presents both opportunities and challenges for enterprises looking to make the most of their shiny new Kubernetes clusters. Open-source software achieves a wide variety of functionality within modern applications, removing the need for developers to create their own services, such as logging and monitoring, caching, databases, message queues, etc.
In conjunction with VMworld 2020, we are announcing new functionalities of Tanzu Observability by Wavefront that accelerate analytics-driven insights and data onboarding for DevOps teams, including developers, Kubernetes operators, and wider operations teams. We have added support for PromQL, expanded packaged application insights, and grown the Tanzu Observability ecosystem—both within the Tanzu portfolio and outside of it—by adding support for popular DevOps and developer tools.
