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September 2020

Tanzu Observability by Wavefront Delivers Unified Enterprise Observability for DevOps Teams

In conjunction with VMworld 2020, we are announcing new functionalities of Tanzu Observability by Wavefront that accelerate analytics-driven insights and data onboarding for DevOps teams, including developers, Kubernetes operators, and wider operations teams. We have added support for PromQL, expanded packaged application insights, and grown the Tanzu Observability ecosystem—both within the Tanzu portfolio and outside of it—by adding support for popular DevOps and developer tools.

Streamline Open-Source Security Compliance on Kubernetes with Tanzu Application Catalog

The free availability of hundreds of thousands of open-source applications and components available as containers in public registries like Docker Hub presents both opportunities and challenges for enterprises looking to make the most of their shiny new Kubernetes clusters. Open-source software achieves a wide variety of functionality within modern applications, removing the need for developers to create their own services, such as logging and monitoring, caching, databases, message queues, etc.

How (Not) to Develop a Modern Product Management Practice at Speed

Tesco Bank has embarked on a digital transformation journey, and at the heart of it lies a shift of culture and the adoption of modern product development practices. What could go wrong? Everything! Culture, leadership, bureaucracy, route to production, you name it. Yet, with the help of VMware Pivotal Labs, we delivered an amazing product during a time of great need for our customers.

DevOps KPIs as a Service: Daimler's Solution

Daimler supports its developers with a centrally curated DevOps toolchain, including a cloud native platform based on Cloud Foundry. The idea is to free hundreds of dev teams from operations scaffolding and allow them to instead focus on delivering their products. “Platform-as-a-product” is the strategy to keep up with the demand and the continuous feature evolution. KPIs are part of the platform. Some are consumed by the platform team to measure the success of the platform itself. Others are provided as “KPIs-as-a-service” to the platform customers.

Introduction to Tanzu Build Service 1.0

Manually creating and managing a handful of containers in a production environment is one thing. But at some point, organizations and teams cross a threshold. That specific point will differ by organization, but after this point, the idea of manually patching, testing, and deploying a fleet of containers will become too much.

Run .NET Applications in Azure Spring Cloud Using Steeltoe-Now in Public Preview

Fresh off the exciting announcement of Azure Spring Cloud’s general availability at SpringOne, today we are happy to announce the public preview of Steeltoe .NET support. Azure Spring Cloud is a fully managed service for Spring Boot—and now Steeltoe .NET—apps. As a native Azure service, it is operated by Microsoft. But VMware has partnered closely with Microsoft in the development of the service and fully supports Microsoft in its operation of Azure Spring Cloud.

Kubernetes: When You Need It and How to Scale It

Whether you’re years deep into the Kubernetes experience or just dipping your toes into the water, there’s no such thing as too much perspective. After all, Kubernetes is poised to become a foundational element of enterprise infrastructure, and it’s evolving fast. Mistakes made today could lead to some gnarly fixes down the road.

VMware Tanzu Mission Control Expands Its Policy Management Capabilities

We are excited to announce the general availability of security policies and policy insights in Tanzu Mission Control. With the launch of these new capabilities, administrators can easily streamline and manage the security of their Kubernetes cluster fleet. They can also take advantage of the rich policy insights dashboard, which provides a centralized and holistic view of the current state of all policy events in their system.

Tanzu Tuesdays - Production-Ready Kubernetes Clusters with VMware Tanzu - Tiffany Jernigan

An expanded version of her Spring One talk: Make Your Kubernetes Clusters Production-Ready with VMware Tanzu When you first started experimenting with Kubernetes, you may have started locally or on a set of servers. With simple applications, you may only have used a container registry and Kubernetes itself. When looking to move your clusters to a production setting, there are many more considerations, such as: How will I manage my clusters? How do I handle monitoring and logging? How do I safely back up my cluster resources? How do I ensure that my container images are safe and secure?

How to Get Started Using vSphere with Tanzu for Tanzu Basic and Tanzu Standard

In this video, we look at the process for getting started using vSphere with Tanzu employing the Virtual Distributed Switch. This is enabled by Tanzu Basic and Tanzu Standard licensing with Enterprise Plus. The process is for the complete setup and configuration of Workload Management and also deploying your first Tanzu Kubernetes Grid cluster.

Simplify Your Approach to Application Modernization with 4 Simple Editions for the Tanzu Portfolio

We recently announced four new VMware Tanzu editions, each of which packages capabilities of the Tanzu portfolio into a solution that directly addresses a single, common customer challenge. Your effort to modernize applications is already complex. Tanzu editions simplify your access to the tools you’ll need to move forward. Before walking through each of the four new editions, it’s important to first call out the characteristics that are common to all of them.

Kubernetes as a New Standard for Infrastructure Management

For IT teams inside large organizations used to managing any number of operating environments, Kubernetes is a breath of fresh, standardizing air. Forget its origins, forget any excitement over containers or microservices, and forget the sprawling ecosystem of related projects. What has some folks charged with managing Kubernetes deployments really excited is the prospect of managing all application infrastructure essentially the same way.

Tanzu Tuesdays - Let's Build a Twitch Bot! with Spring Boot and Project Reactor with Brian McClain

You may have seen it in your favorite streamers channel: A bot reminding you of an upcoming event, showing their uptime, and offering unique features to improve the experience for the viewer. Behind the scenes you might assume code watching every line of code, ready to respond to pre-programmed commands. But what happens when the channel has 1k views? 10k? 100k? All chatting and interacting, exchanging thousands of messages a second.

Need to Kickstart Your Digital Transformation? Start By Changing Your POV

We hear the terms all the time: agile, transformation, developer productivity, employee happiness. Unfortunately, transformation that improves both product and delivery—and that is continuous—can be challenging. Meaningful evolution is hard when everybody involved comes into a transformation process with all sorts of biases deeply embedded.

Instant Insights for Troubleshooting Your Spring Boot Applications and Spring Cloud Data Flow Pipelines

Looking for a way to proactively troubleshoot complex application performance issues? Look no further than Tanzu Observability by Wavefront, which provides easy data ingestion and preconfigured dashboards and can be set up with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud Data Flow (SCDF) integrations.

VMware Tanzu Build Service, a Kubernetes-Native Way to Build Containers, Is Now GA

VMware Tanzu Build Service, a completely new way of building and managing application containers for Kubernetes, is now generally available. You can download an evaluation copy on Tanzu Network today and build your first container in just a few easy steps using our guide. Although Kubernetes ushered in a new era of container-based applications with microservices architectures, the way that containers are built and maintained did not evolve much.

Announcing the General Availability of Azure Spring Cloud

Everyone wants their developers to be more productive. Increased productivity means more features and functionality, which leads to more satisfied customers and better business outcomes. That is why, today at SpringOne, we are happy to announce the general availability of Microsoft Azure Spring Cloud—a fully managed service for Spring Boot apps.

I Can See Clearly Now: Dashboarding and Multi I/O as Spring Cloud Data Flow for Kubernetes 1.1 Goes GA

Spring Cloud Data Flow (SCDF) for Kubernetes 1.1 is now generally available, building on the open source SCDF version 2.6 released in August. The Kubernetes-based commercial offering leverages Tanzu Observability by Wavefront for dashboarding and observability, and enables developers to take their data pipelines to the next level with the introduction of Multi I/O for event-streaming applications.

What's New in Spring Cloud Gateway for VMware Tanzu

Spring Cloud Gateway for VMware Tanzu was released January 2020 as a service on Tanzu Application Service (TAS) and was quickly deployed into production by many of our customers. Our focus is to offer the most developer-friendly API gateway experience while still providing the operational configuration, security and governance needed for successful enterprise management.

SpringOne 2020: Day 1 Recap and Highlights

The Spring community virtually converged for the first day of SpringOne. Over 40,000 of our closest friends registered for the event! The VMware team and a rich community of speakers put on quite the show, discussing the state of enterprise development and best practices for getting apps to production. Here’s a look at some of our favorite moments from Day 1.