At a time when rapid innovation has become a strategic business imperative, application development and developer experience are more important than ever.

The 2023 edition of VMware’s annual State of Kubernetes report is now out, and it’s got a lot of great information about how organizations are using Kubernetes today, as well as the benefits and challenges that go along with that. In this blog post, I’m focusing on one area: multi-cloud.

Many words have been written over the last couple of years about the importance of Developer Experience. And that’s for good reason. If your organization writes software, developer experience is affecting your business—for better or worse. I worked for over 20 years as a developer at a large software vendor, where it was taken for granted that developers needed the right tools and environment to get their work done.

The public preview for lifecycle management of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) clusters through VMware Tanzu Mission Control allowed users to create, update/scale, upgrade, and delete clusters with native Amazon EKS APIs through Tanzu Mission Control. Today, we are announcing this feature’s general availability (GA), including powerful capabilities based on customer feedback.

We are happy to announce that some of the widely used Bitnami-packaged Data Services Helm charts now support Service Binding Specification for Kubernetes. With this move, our goal is to improve the lives of platform teams and developers by removing the complexities around data services configuration and the secrets retrieval processes.

VMware Application Catalog now offers enterprise support for Kubeapps, allowing customers to consume production-ready open source artifacts easily and efficiently! The ever-increasing adoption of open source software (OSS) by enterprises has led to a disconnect of sorts between the platform engineering and development teams.

Today we are excited to announce our partnership with Upbound, a certified VMware Tanzu Application Platform partner! With this partnership, customers can deliver services across multiple clouds, more quickly and at scale, thus accelerating new capabilities and a better, more seamless experience.