In this video Tiffany Jernigan (twitter.com/tiffanyfayj) talks about the Carvel toolset tool, kapp. kapp (part of the open source Carvel suite) is a lightweight application-centric tool for deploying resources on Kubernetes. Being both explicit and application-centric it provides an easier way to deploy and view all resources created together regardless of what namespace they’re in. Being dependency-aware, it is able to wait for resources to be created, updated, or deleted, and provides a live status on the progress of the actions. Continue on to see how to get started with kapp.

Starting in April of 2020 my team was tasked with managing Tanzu Application Service on multiple foundations for a client. Early on it was a priority to establish a strong SRE practice around managing the platform. This talk discusses how we defined key metrics for monitoring availability, custom solutions for populating availability data into an observability platform (Tanzu Observability by Wavefront), dashboard creating, and alerting practices. We discuss in depth the benefits of using a burn rate when monitoring availability error budget consumption, and how this strategy allows for more sensitive alerting and limiting error budget consumption.

Coté tells you how he thinks of the different Tanzu editions.

In this demo, we are going to look at using VMware Tanzu Standard edition with Microsoft Azure. Namely, the two products that will be seen are Tanzu Kubernetes Grid and Tanzu Mission Control. Tanzu Kubernetes Grid is the enterprise container runtime that utilizes cluster API to enable full lifecycle management. Global or fleet-wide management is the capability brought by Tanzu Mission Control. Tanzu Mission Control can inherit Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters to do provisioning and lifecycle management through its intuitive graphical user interface.

VMware Tanzu Standard builds on the foundation of Tanzu Basic by going further than Kubernetes lifecycle management. Tanzu Standard brings capabilities beyond vSphere, enabling a consistent Kubernetes experience across clouds, managing those Kubernetes clusters in a consistent fashion, and improving the security and governance using policy management at a global level. This video is a high-level look at the components to get you familiarized with them.

Putting together your big ol' kubernetes strategy? In today's Tanzu Talk I go over a Gartner paper on exactly that.

VMware Tanzu Observability is now natively supported in the OpenTelemetry Exporter.

Have you ever wished you could deploy an app to Kubernetes for testing, only to get tangled up in decisions about how to do so? Ever wanted to build apps for Kubernetes using event-driven architectures? Check out this overview of Cloud Native Runtimes for VMware Tanzu!

Coté goes over his highlights for the 2021 State of Kubernetes survey: rising production use, the benefits and business capabilities people are getting, hurdles for developers and operations, and the rising use in kubernetes distros.