Today, there are growing pressures on operations and development teams to deploy software faster and into more environments, such as development, staging, or production. Organizations need self-service tools and operational efficiency, and VMware is meeting the challenge with solutions to help modernize operations and unburden their teams. VMware Tanzu Mission Control unifies cluster management to a single control plane and groups resources as a resource hierarchy.

A common problem faced by platform operators is data management; specifically, the detrimental side effects that can manifest due to running out of disk space. For example, if debug logging is left enabled on an app and /var/logs fill the disk, containerd/etcd would now be unable to write their states to disk, causing the cluster to fail. VMware Tanzu Mission Control makes it easy to avoid disk consumption issues by exposing the option to add data partitions to a cluster or nodepool.

Ben Hale and Rita Manachi co-wrote this post. With the release of VMware Tanzu Application Platform, VMware is working to address a developer experience crisis that has been fueled by a rich and complex cloud native ecosystem and further complicated by the proliferation of hybrid and multi-cloud environments. There’s understandable skepticism about VMware knowing what makes for a good developer experience given its leadership in infrastructure.

The latest update to the VMware Tanzu Community Edition further streamlines the path to production with the addition of Cartographer, an open source project to build and manage modern secure software supply chains.

Ning Ge and Keith Miracle co-wrote this post. Amidst many social and economic disruptions that have arisen in the last few years, enterprises have been forced to quicken the pace of their digital transformation initiatives, adding and consuming cloud-based capacity and capability just to stay competitive, relevant, and, for some, in business.

Kubernetes has become the de facto platform for running containerized workloads. Kubernetes brings a set of APIs for managing applications that can work with multiple infrastructure/cloud providers. Whether you want to deploy a containerized application on vSphere, AWS, or Azure, as long as Kubernetes is deployed in these environments, the API being used to request a container deployment stays the same. This helps application development teams tremendously.

Explosive growth of web traffic and services is forcing organizations to modernize and optimize their infrastructures. Kubernetes is core to the strategy and modernization story, but it’s only one piece. As VMware engages with its customers, significant complexities and resource needs arise that are not always apparent in the planning stages of Kubernetes deployments. The complexity of even a single deployment can introduce delays and slow projects to a crawl.

Grafana Labs recently announced that they are relicensing their core projects from Apache 2.0 to Affero General Public License (AGPL) version 3. This is great news for the open source community, since the new license is still Open Source Initiative–approved and adheres to an additional clause in which network access of any AGPL-licensed software counts as a type of distribution.

Every January, I ask myself the same question. What do I want to accomplish this year? It helps me plan out my work and focus on what matters most. To help me answer this question, I turn to my favorite goals framework, the OKRs.

Defining, building, and delivering a secure software supply chain is challenging for many organizations. Software builds utilize many open source components, and the vast landscape of cloud native developer and platform tools grows more extensive and more diverse every day. Developers, operators, and security teams must work together to ensure software is delivered swiftly and securely to meet business and customer desires.