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How Bitnami Uses VMware Image Builder to Deploy 60k Apps Per Month and How You Can Do the Same

Have you ever wondered what it takes to build, deploy, and verify 2,000 applications every single day? In this blog post, we will delve into this specific challenge and take a look at how VMware’s Bitnami can dramatically boost productivity by using VMware Image Builder for automating content production. But let’s start from the beginning, and explore what it takes to build and ship software to users.

An Introduction to Service Installer for VMware Tanzu

Service Installer for VMware Tanzu enables quick, repeatable deployments of Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations on a variety of cloud platforms. This video provides a high-level introduction to Service Installer for VMware Tanzu, including its capabilities, form factors, benefits, and availability.

Best Practices to Ensure Sustainable, Enterprise-Wide Open Source Software Adoption

Over the past two decades, adoption of open source software (OSS) among enterprises has become commonplace. In fact, because of the many advantages of open source, it is now almost impossible to find a business that does not rely on OSS. And with the proliferation of modern cloud native apps and microservices, this is only more true. Modern applications are built with open source, and you wouldn’t want to do it any other way.

RabbitMQ vs Kafka: How to Choose an Event-Streaming Broker

RabbitMQ has, for a long time, been one of the most popular message brokers in the world. Last year, streams were introduced and today RabbitMQ can be used to support many use cases, whether it is as a message broker, for message streams, or doing both in unison. This blog will explain why RabbitMQ fits well into most messaging-streaming scenarios and why it’s an excellent choice. But before we jump into that, let’s cover some basics around event streaming.

VMware Tanzu and AWS Accelerate Apps: Key Takeaways from AWS re:Invent 2022

Another successful AWS re:Invent is in the books for VMware Tanzu. This year, like in previous years, the event had a high attendance with 51,000+ people descending on Las Vegas to learn and explore everything AWS-related. However, there were some notable changes in the focus areas for 2022. This year, VMware was pleased to see that Amazon hosted their first-ever Kubernetes Leadership segment at re:Invent, delivered by Barry Cooks, vice president, Kubernetes for AWS.

A 2022 Recap for VMware Tanzu Application Service and Cloud Foundry

VMware Tanzu Application Service is a modern application platform for enterprises that want to deliver mission-critical microservices across clouds. The team at VMware Tanzu has been hard at work this year, continuing to enhance the overall developer and operator experiences on the platform. In addition to this work, the team continued to collaborate closely with the Cloud Foundry community and honor VMware’s commitment to open source ecosystems.

VMware Tanzu Mission Control Year in Review: 2022 Edition

We aren’t done with 2022 yet, but phew! This was a busy year for the VMware Tanzu Mission Control team. In the two short years since VMware introduced Tanzu Mission Control, the Kubernetes management hub has evolved rapidly to meet industry trends and changing customer needs with important new features, such as data protection, lifecycle management capabilities, GitOps automation, and integration across the VMware portfolio, to name a few.

Improve Visibility of Kubernetes Clusters with Tanzu Mission Control Events and Audit Logs

Kubernetes administrators and platform operators want quick access to information to help identify, troubleshoot, and track what happens on their Kubernetes clusters at any given time. However, lack of user attributes in events and audit logs can make it difficult for them to know who triggered an action, so VMware Tanzu Mission Control is expanding visibility into that data to fast-track remediation.