VMware Tanzu® Supercharges Portfolio to Help Customers Build, Run, and Manage Cloud-Native Apps
VMware (NYSE: VMW) announced advancements to its Tanzu portfolio during VMware Explore 2022, aimed at enhancing Kubernetes developer experience and operational management. Key enhancements include improvements in Tanzu Application Platform and Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations designed to boost developer productivity, ensure end-to-end security, and facilitate multi-cloud operations. Notably, VMware's State of Kubernetes report indicates that 65% of organizations already run Kubernetes in production, with a significant expected expansion in the coming year.
- Introduction of advanced features in Tanzu Application Platform and Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations to enhance developer productivity.
- Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations delivers 70-80% less administrative cost, improving operational efficiency.
- 65% of organizations already utilize Kubernetes in production, indicating strong market adoption.
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“Companies face pressure to optimize their application development and delivery efforts for speed, resilience, and security as they move to become a true digital enterprise. Platform teams must focus on delivering a great developer experience and path to production to speed velocity, while also providing a solution for deploying and running apps more securely, reliably, and at scale on any and many clouds,” said
How Customers Are Benefitting from VMware Tanzu
VMware Tanzu is now being adopted by customers across the cloud, edge, and data centers, as they are looking for consistent Kubernetes development, delivery, and management of their highly distributed environments.
“Tanzu Application Platform gives us the flexibility to leverage new tools from a broad ecosystem of native cloud services, while still allowing us to gain value from our existing investments—all within a single, secure, modular platform,” says
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VMware Tanzu® for Kubernetes Operations Adds Capabilities to Help Streamline and Secure Kubernetes Deployments at Scale across Clouds
VMware Tanzu Mission Control Expands Multi-cluster and Multi-cloud Kubernetes Management Capabilities
As part of VMware’s continued commitment to supporting customers at every stage of their Kubernetes infrastructure maturity,
- Preview for Lifecycle Management of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) clusters: VMware Tanzu Mission Control will enable direct provisioning and management of Amazon EKS clusters so that developers and operators will have less friction and more choices for cluster types. DevOps teams will be able to simplify multi-cloud, multi-cluster Kubernetes management with centralized lifecycle management of Tanzu Kubernetes Grid and Amazon EKS cluster types.
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Integration with VMware Aria Automation: Tanzu Mission Control is now integrated with VMware Aria Automation, formerly known as
VMware vRealize® Automation Cloud™, to help customers consolidate their Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Kubernetes platform operations. This integration enables operators to design cloud infrastructure and underlying services, on any vSphere-based or public cloud and also deploy Kubernetes clusters directly via VMware Aria Automation while simplifying management at scale by inheriting Tanzu Mission Control policies through its cluster groups and complying to VMware Aria Automation rules and constraints. - Continuous and Consistent Cluster Lifecycle Management via GitOps: VMware Tanzu Mission Control users can now employ clusters via GitOps for consistent Kubernetes cluster configuration. This feature provides a method for managing cluster configurations with VMware Tanzu Mission Control via continuous delivery from a Git repository. Continuous delivery through VMware Tanzu Mission Control is built on Flux CD and enables users to attach a Git repository to a cluster and sync YAML artifacts from the repository to the cluster which can introduce consistency to the GitOps toolchain.
- Application Reliability with Cross-Cluster Backup and Restore: Kubernetes application operators can now have more flexibility for their applications with VMware Tanzu Mission Control cross-cluster backup and restore. This feature enables application operators to move applications between any cluster, running on any cloud, or on-prem data center for improved application resiliency and simplified site recovery.
Introducing Unified Observability by VMware Aria Operations for Applications
As enterprises modernize their existing application portfolio and build new cloud-native applications, the need for application and Kubernetes log management at scale will continue to grow. VMware’s new Unified Observability Platform by VMware Aria Operations for Applications, formerly VMware Tanzu Observability, provides simplified full-stack visibility with great user-experience, and predictable pricing for multi-cloud environments. The new Unified Observability platform amplifies existing capabilities with the addition of log management to deliver contextual data across traces, metrics, and logs enabling more actionable insights and reducing MTTR (mean-time-to-resolution) at a massive scale. The platform unifies data, insights, and actions across IT, and offers customized and out-of-the-box dashboards for applications, with more than 250 vendor integrations to start capturing real-time data from any stack in minutes, eliminating data silos, war rooms, and alert fatigue.
VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid 2.0 Streamlines Kubernetes and Application lifecycle management
With containers being deployed increasingly on-premises, in public cloud, and at the edge, it is essential for standardization of Kubernetes across these environments.
VMware Tanzu® Application Platform™ Adds Capabilities to Improve Developer Productivity and Simplify DevSecOps
Major updates include:
- Availability on RedHat OpenShift: To give increased flexibility to our customers regarding their Kubernetes platform choice, Tanzu Application Platform 1.3 will be available on RedHat OpenShift, running in vSphere and on bare metal. Leverage your existing investment in RedHat OpenShift to realize the value of Tanzu Application Platform.
- Air-gap support: Tanzu Application Platform 1.3 is now available for highly regulated and disconnected environments with the addition of air-gapped installation, helping to ensure that components, upgrades, and patches are made available to the system and that they operate consistently and correctly in the controlled environment — in addition to keeping the organization’s data more secure at all times.
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Secure Software Supply Chain Enhancements: Tanzu Application Platform 1.3 seamlessly shifts security left with three new capabilities that increase efficiency across dev and ops and accelerates the path to productions:
- The Tanzu Application Platform expands the ecosystem of supported vulnerability scanners with a beta integration with VMware Carbon Black scanner (in addition to Snyk and Grype) to enable customer choice and leverage their existing investments in securing their supply chain.
- A new, centralized vulnerability monitoring dashboard will aid app teams with their pre-deployment security checks and secure app deployments.
- Software Bill of Materials (SBoM) support for SPDX in addition to CycloneDX to give teams choice in how they import and export SBoMs via the Tanzu insight CLI plug-in.
- Dynamic API specification registration: Tanzu Application Platform 1.3 automates the experience in publishing, consuming, and collaborating on APIs for application development. Integration of the Backstage API Docs plugin into the Tanzu Application Platform GUI now auto-registers and publishes the workload specification through a secure supply chain to the API catalog with role-based access control settings.
- Jenkins CI/CD integration: Tanzu Application Platform 1.3 extends the ability for users to leverage existing Jenkins pipelines in Tanzu Application Platform with deeper Jenkins integrations. The integration will allow the Jenkins CI component to be used as part of an out of the box supply chain to manage specific steps in the overall CI/CD pipeline, and to automate triggering of Jenkins jobs from Tanzu Application Platform supply chains.
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At VMware Explore 2022,
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