Today at VMware’s annual SpringOne developer conference, we announced the public beta* of ​Tanzu​ Application Platform. With Tanzu Application Platform, application developers and operations teams can build and deliver a better multi-cloud developer experience on any Kubernetes distribution, including Azure Kubernetes Service, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, Google Kubernetes Engine, as well as software offerings like Tanzu Kubernetes Grid.

VMware Spring Cloud Gateway for Kubernetes, the powerful distributed API gateway loved by application developers like you no matter what programming language you use, has been improved with some brand new capabilities. Spring Cloud Gateway for Kubernetes now supports the loading of your own extensions so you can customize them to your own specific needs. Capturing metrics and trace data into your observability tools of choice is also easier than ever before.

Lately, organizations are experiencing the urgency to containerize their age-old legacy applications in order to offer the best experience to their existing and new customers. Despite the great pressure on IT systems and organizations, modernizing mission-critical applications to ensure business continuity and stability is more of a necessity.

The idea to fully manage applications, in addition to infrastructure, using a Git-based workflow, or GitOps, is gaining a lot of traction recently. We are seeing an increasing number of users connecting their Shipa account with tools such as ArgoCD and FluxCD. Based on that, we conducted multiple user interviews to understand some of the challenges teams face when implementing GitOps, especially those introduced or faced by their developers.

Below are main highlights from a recent Clubhouse talk featuring Elad Aviv, a software engineer at Komodor. The session was hosted by Kubernetes heavy-hitters; Mauricio Salatino, Staff Engineer at VMware, and Salman Iqbal, Co-founder of Cloud NativeWal.

Wondering about container orchestration? When your organization manages too many containers, you start to need container orchestration. We'll explain. What is container orchestration? Container orchestration is the automation of many operational tasks in your container-based applications.

Red Hat OpenShift is an open source container application platform that incorporates a collection of software that enables developers the ability to run an entire Kubernetes environment. It includes streamlined workflows to help teams get to production faster and is tested with dozens of technologies while providing a robust tightly-integrated platform supported over a 9-year lifecycle.

to unleash the power of cloud native. Anyone in technology knows that one of the keys to success is GREAT technology partnerships. As technology becomes more complex, we look to technology partnerships to help drive digital transformation through growth and innovation.

It has been a while since I have been excited to write about encrypted tunnels. It might be the sheer pain of troubleshooting old technologies, or countless hours of falling down the rabbit hole of a project’s source code, that always motivated me to pursue a better alternative (without much luck). However, I believe luck is finally on my side.

Welcome to the Civo update for August 2021. It's was a busy month, with the big news being the launch of Civo Academy: A full Kubernetes learning program consisting of over 50 videos created in-house by the team here at Civo. We also kicked off the Civo DevOps Bootcamp! The first few live stream installments have been a huge success, helping developers at any stage of their career learn more about DevOps fundamentals.