Follow along as we deploy the ArgoCD Bitnami Helm chart to a Kubernetes cluster(s), using the friendly GUI in VMware Tanzu Mission Control. No CLI required.

In this video, @thecote looks at the 2023 VMware State of Kubernetes survey to the types of tools being the Kubernetes ecosystem, at least as represented by the survey respondents. Whether you're looking to build out your Kubernetes setup or simply want to learn what your peers are doing, this survey offers valuable insights into what people are doing.

Sadly, older applications and services too often slow down business innovation, usually stopping innovation completely. Indeed, 76% of executives said they are too invested in legacy applications to change. They’re caught in the legacy trap! The older your IT, the more it will cost in money and time to evolve. Organizations simply can’t figure out how to prioritize this invisible work over adding new features and apps. The fix is to reorient how you prioritize modernization work from a technical perspective to a business perspective. An application modernization strategy that focuses on business capabilities delivered will fare better than a strategy that focuses on “fixing the old stuff.”

Contour, a CNCF incubating project, is a high-performance ingress and load balancer solution for Kubernetes. Contour supports Kubernetes Ingress, its own HTTPProxy CRD, and also implements Gateway API. In this session, we will discuss how Contour works, recent community-building efforts, community contributions, and why the team is excited about Gateway API.

We discuss what we did at KubeCon, the recent VMware State of Kubernetes 2023 survey, and other chit-chat.

This video explains VMware RabbitMQ in under 3 minutes. With VMware RabbitMQ you get all the messaging and streaming capabilities of RabbitMQ in an enterprise-grade supported distribution.

Containers are popular with both developers and operators because they offer a straightforward way to deploy and manage applications, regardless of the target environment. They facilitate DevOps (and DevSecOps) practices by improving handoffs between development and operations teams. But what are they? In this video, Vincent Osterman breaks down containers, virtual machines, their strengths, and their differences.

A lot goes into getting a platform up and running. Before you even get to that point, though, you’ll need to put together a business case and the plans for your platform. In this episode, Coté talks with Kerry Schaffer about that business case, but also about the role of developer happiness and platform marketing. We also discuss getting more women into IT and Kerry’s work with the Women’s Security Alliance.

With Backstage, more Windows support, support for MySQL 8.0, and numerous other improvements, the new release of the Tanzu Application Service is packed. In this episode, Nick Kuhn walks us through the highlights of the Tanzu Application Service 4.0.

Containers are popular with both developers and operators because they offer a straightforward way to deploy and manage applications, regardless of the target environment. They facilitate DevOps (and DevSecOps) practices by improving handoffs between development and operations teams. But what are they? In this video, Vincent Osterman breaks down containers, virtual machines, their strengths, and their differences.