Today at VMware’s annual SpringOne developer conference, we announced the public beta* of ​Tanzu​ Application Platform. With Tanzu Application Platform, application developers and operations teams can build and deliver a better multi-cloud developer experience on any Kubernetes distribution, including Azure Kubernetes Service, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, Google Kubernetes Engine, as well as software offerings like Tanzu Kubernetes Grid.

It’s inspiring to see all of the customers that are delivering great applications securely and at scale with VMware Tanzu Application Service on any cloud as well as on-premises. One great example is Albertsons, which has managed a tremendous increase in e-commerce and grocery delivery traffic with zero downtime during the COVID-19 crisis.

If you haven’t had a chance to check out VMware Tanzu Mission Control, you’re missing out on one of the greatest tools available to manage Kubernetes. However, it’s not just for managing one cluster; rather, it delivers “fleet-wide” management with a focus on policy. Policy management is powerful because it enables us to, for example, limit access to certain users or prohibit pulls from specific container registries.

Companies today are adopting software as a service (SaaS) at a rapid pace. There are many factors contributing to this trend, including: Many large enterprises, particularly in banking and financial services, have been hesitant to adopt SaaS because it challenges existing risk management models already in place for software.