If you’ve ever attempted to cultivate a backyard vegetable garden, flower garden for your balcony, hydroponic tower, or other system to grow plants, you’ll understand that it’s not a matter of tossing down some seeds in soil and letting nature take its course. Without proper monitoring and management, ecosystems may grow out of control, or simply wither and die off.

While cloud native architecture offers many benefits when it comes to application modernization, some challenges remain for customers. However, VMware Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations on Dell VxRail can improve application resiliency and the performance needed to quickly and securely build, deploy, and manage your multi-cloud environment.

The way to solve Kubernetes complexity is with tools. Ironically, this also creates a lot of complexity because there are many options for each type of tool and, thus, an unfathomable number of combinations. Each stack of tools first requires unique integrations, and then there's ongoing work to keep all those tools integrated and working together. It's no wonder, then, that we've seen a strong willingness for organizations to spend money on Kubernetes tools.

If you’re interested in Kubernetes, chances are extremely high the reason is because you want to support developers, by using Kubernetes to run the applications they write for your organization. There are other use cases, such as data analysis and running enterprise applications, but most Kubernetes workloads are there to help run an organization’s custom-written applications. So how is Kubernetes helping to reach that goal?

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