The first thing to know when exploring APIs vs microservices is that there’s not a dichotomous relationship between these two technical approaches. Instead, you want to build an understanding of how these two technologies relate to each other—and they do, in a big way. So, organizations don’t need to embrace either an API-first or microservices-first strategy.

During the development of the latest release of VMware Tanzu Operations Manager, the BOSH Ecosystem team faced new challenges when upgrading the base BOSH operating system image (stemcell) from Ubuntu Xenial to Ubuntu Jammy Jellyfish. These migration challenges manifested as continuous integration (CI) timeouts that occurred across adjacent teams within the Cloud Foundry ecosystem.

VMware has released new capabilities in VMware Tanzu Application Platform that can continue to elevate the developer and IT operations experiences, as well as ease security management. This blog post outlines the new functionality included in Tanzu Application Platform 1.4, which is generally available now.

Have you ever wondered what it takes to build, deploy, and verify 2,000 applications every single day? In this blog post, we will delve into this specific challenge and take a look at how VMware’s Bitnami can dramatically boost productivity by using VMware Image Builder for automating content production. But let’s start from the beginning, and explore what it takes to build and ship software to users.

Over the past two decades, adoption of open source software (OSS) among enterprises has become commonplace. In fact, because of the many advantages of open source, it is now almost impossible to find a business that does not rely on OSS. And with the proliferation of modern cloud native apps and microservices, this is only more true. Modern applications are built with open source, and you wouldn’t want to do it any other way.

RabbitMQ has, for a long time, been one of the most popular message brokers in the world. Last year, streams were introduced and today RabbitMQ can be used to support many use cases, whether it is as a message broker, for message streams, or doing both in unison. This blog will explain why RabbitMQ fits well into most messaging-streaming scenarios and why it’s an excellent choice. But before we jump into that, let’s cover some basics around event streaming.

Another successful AWS re:Invent is in the books for VMware Tanzu. This year, like in previous years, the event had a high attendance with 51,000+ people descending on Las Vegas to learn and explore everything AWS-related. However, there were some notable changes in the focus areas for 2022. This year, VMware was pleased to see that Amazon hosted their first-ever Kubernetes Leadership segment at re:Invent, delivered by Barry Cooks, vice president, Kubernetes for AWS.

VMware Tanzu Application Service is a modern application platform for enterprises that want to deliver mission-critical microservices across clouds. The team at VMware Tanzu has been hard at work this year, continuing to enhance the overall developer and operator experiences on the platform. In addition to this work, the team continued to collaborate closely with the Cloud Foundry community and honor VMware’s commitment to open source ecosystems.

We aren’t done with 2022 yet, but phew! This was a busy year for the VMware Tanzu Mission Control team. In the two short years since VMware introduced Tanzu Mission Control, the Kubernetes management hub has evolved rapidly to meet industry trends and changing customer needs with important new features, such as data protection, lifecycle management capabilities, GitOps automation, and integration across the VMware portfolio, to name a few.

Kubernetes administrators and platform operators want quick access to information to help identify, troubleshoot, and track what happens on their Kubernetes clusters at any given time. However, lack of user attributes in events and audit logs can make it difficult for them to know who triggered an action, so VMware Tanzu Mission Control is expanding visibility into that data to fast-track remediation.