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November 2021

Tanzu Talk: Two Tools to Modernize Legacy Apps - the VMware App Transformer & App Navigator

Most large organizations have 100’s, if not 1,000’s of apps that need to be modernized. 76% of executives said they are too invested in legacy applications to change. Join me for a little study on tools to help in #TanzuTalk. (Apologies for the robot voice towards the end - the cables must have been jiggled too much.) In today’s episode, Coté learns about and summarizes the VMware App Transformer. Then , he watches and comments on a recent talk by Martin Clarkson on the the VMware App Navigator service.

VMware Tanzu Service Mesh Enterprise Edition: Securing APIs at Runtime

Catch this keynote preview of VMware Tanzu Service Mesh Enterprise Edition at VMworld 2021. APIs can introduce exposure for your applications at runtime. Tanzu Service Mesh Enterprise Edition is designed to help you reduce this runtime risk through visibility, secure policies, and root cause analysis.

Application Transformer for VMware Tanzu Is Now in Tech Preview

Enterprises worldwide are embracing innovations such as the cloud to solve their digital needs, but many face challenges with workload migration and application modernization. One way organizations can ease their application modernization journeys is to adopt the 5 R’s framework—rehost, replatform, refactor, retain, and retire—allowing them to choose the right migration strategy for their specific environment.

Announcing the Release of VMware Tanzu RabbitMQ 1.2

The Tanzu RabbitMQ team is excited to announce the general availability of VMware Tanzu RabbitMQ 1.2. This version contains RabbitMQ 3.9, a milestone core broker release that introduces Streams, a new data structure allowing for replay and higher throughput. In addition to Streams, Tanzu RabbitMQ 1.2 has some exciting new capabilities and improvements.

VMware Tanzu Compliance Updates Support US Federal Agencies

Kubernetes has become an ever-larger target for workloads across all industries. The public sector, in particular, experiences several hurdles in achieving effective utilization of this relatively new technology. Of particular concern for the public sector in the United States is the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS).

Enhance Developer Experience, Productivity with Tanzu Application Platform for Application Deployment

At VMware’s annual SpringOne developer conference in September, we announced the first customer beta of VMware ​Tanzu​ Application Platform. Tanzu Application Platform delivers a pre-paved path to production and a streamlined, end-to-end developer experience on any compliant public cloud or on-premises Kubernetes cluster.

VMware Tanzu Advanced Quarterly Update: Driving DevOps Metrics that Matter

It is imperative for DevOps success that operations teams provide a good developer experience and that developers have what they need for productive workflows. When this is done automatically and seamlessly, teams can get code to production faster. However, it’s not enough to get code committed quickly. That code must also be compliant and secure. Developers should not find out at the last minute that they used a noncompliant package leading to hours of re-work.

Overview: See the VMware Tanzu Application Platform DevSecOps Experience

This video demonstrates how you can use the VMware Tanzu Application Platform to help accelerate your organization's DevSecOps culture. We demonstrate how Tanzu Application Platform can use an outer loop supply chain to automatically take your application from source code to URL using a supply chain that includes continuous integration testing, source code and image scanning, container build, and, finally, deployment.

Overview: See the VMware Tanzu Application Platform DevSecOps Experience

This video demonstrates how you can use the VMware Tanzu Application Platform to help accelerate your DevSecOps culture. In it, we show how the Tanzu Application Platform can use an outer loop supply chain to automatically take your application from source code to URL using a supply chain that includes continuous integration testing, source code and image scanning, container build, and, finally, deployment.

VMware Tanzu Advanced: A Day in the Life of Cody the Developer and Alana the Operator

This is an excerpt from a Meet the Experts session for VMware Tanzu Advanced edition at VMworld 2021. It provides a brief refresh of the Tanzu Advanced capabilities and then dives into a role play exercise to show how Tanzu Advanced can simplify and accelerate developer and operator workflows.

Mario vs. Steve: What Video Games Can Teach Us about Monitoring vs. Observability

Credit: Unsplash What is monitoring? What is observability? Monitoring shows you how a Kubernetes environment and all of its layers are operating. Observability, on the other hand, is a measure of how well internal states of a system can be inferred from knowledge of its external outputs.

Announcing the Evolution of Tanzu Application Catalog to VMware Application Catalog

Today we are announcing the next step in the evolution of VMware Tanzu Application Catalog. Since its initial availability in March 2020, Tanzu Application Catalog has seen notable success due to its unique DevSecOps approach, which caters to the needs of developers, security admins, and IT operators. Tanzu Application Catalog offers a library of prepackaged, validated, production-ready open source container images that can be customized using base OS images of any customer’s choosing.

How Tanzu Application Platform Improves the Inner Loop for Developers

VMware Tanzu Application Platform provides a set of developer tools that allows developers to debug a running container on any Kubernetes cluster, whether running locally or as a managed Kubernetes cluster on the cloud, from the IDE itself. The tooling also shortens the path for live updates of code changes by eliminating the steps of rebuilding, republishing, and deploying the container, instead directly injecting the updated code to the running container.

Recognizing and Removing Friction Points in the Developer Experience on Kubernetes

Kubernetes is a game-changing technological advancement, enabling infrastructure and operations teams to automate application deployment and management at scale. But it has also presented new challenges to developers. As organizations adopt cloud native application paradigms, they face a developer experience crisis due to the complexity of the cloud native ecosystem and a steep learning curve for developing applications for Kubernetes.