VMware delivers compelling Kubernetes developer
experience and provides comprehensive management with enhancements
across VMware Tanzu app modernization portfolio
VMware Explore US 2022 -- Enterprises are under
increasing pressure to digitize their businesses by modernizing app
development and IT operations, as traditional approaches simply
cannot deliver the competitive advantages or rapid innovation that
businesses need today. Developers and IT teams must adapt to the
cloud-native app development reality because, in a world where
organizations are defined by the digital services they can deliver,
modern applications aren’t just the backbone of digital
transformation, they’re the currency of this digital economy. Today
at VMware Explore 2022, VMware (NYSE: VMW) is introducing advances
to its VMware Tanzu portfolio - Tanzu Application Platform and
Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations - that unlock developer
productivity, deliver end-to-end security from build to production,
and enable secure multi-cloud operations at scale, regardless of
where they are in their Kubernetes journey.
“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 Ajay Patel, senior vice
president and general manager, Modern Apps & Management
Business Group, VMware. “Whether our customers are starting from
the data center with existing apps or new apps built in the cloud,
VMware Tanzu meets them where they are so they can get their apps
to production faster. For those just starting their Kubernetes
journey, vSphere with Tanzu Kubernetes Grid helps you get a
developer ready platform. For those who have already started with
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) or any Kubernetes
distribution, they can use Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations and
Tanzu Application Platform for scaling your operator and developer
experience.”
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 Ganesh
Venkataraman, Chief Technology Officer, Digital Transformation at
Fiserv. “It enables us to focus on delivering customer value
without worrying about application dependencies or changing code to
deliver on our multi-cloud strategy and application portability
requirements. This keeps our teams agile and lets us quickly adapt
to customer needs. We're just scratching the surface with Tanzu
Application Platform and look forward to adopting Application
Accelerator and customizing our secure software supply chain as our
needs evolve."
VMware’s State of Kubernetes report 1 found that 65% of
organizations already run Kubernetes in production, and 48% expect
to dramatically expand their adoption over the next year. VMware
Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations is the foundation for building and
operating a modern container infrastructure at scale across any
Kubernetes and any cloud. According to new data commissioned by
Enterprise Strategy Group2, Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations
delivers 70-80% less administrative cost across all Kubernetes
operations, 58% reduction in response time, and three to five times
faster time to value for our customers, simplifying and better
securing Kubernetes operations for modern applications.
VMware Tanzu® for Kubernetes Operations Adds Capabilities to
Help Streamline and Secure Kubernetes Deployments at Scale across
Clouds
VMware continues to meet customers wherever they are in their
journey of adopting Kubernetes infrastructure - whether a single
team, a single cloud, or operating enterprise-wide in multi-cloud -
they are relying on VMware Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations to
establish the right foundation and set up an environment for the
complete development to production lifecycle. At VMware Explore
2022, VMware is announcing updates to key components in Tanzu for
Kubernetes Operations - VMware Tanzu® Mission Control™,
VMware Aria Operations for Apps (formerly VMware Tanzu®
Observability™ by Wavefront), and VMware Tanzu® Kubernetes
Grid™ - to simplify Kubernetes delivery, management, and
reliability. Kubernetes Grid™ - to simplify Kubernetes delivery,
management, and reliability.
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, VMware
Tanzu Mission Control is announcing several new features that
extend and optimize multi-cloud, multi-cluster Kubernetes
management capabilities:
- 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.
- 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 Kubernetes
Grid is engineered to simplify installation and Day 2 operations by
packaging together key open-source technologies and automation
tooling to help teams get up and running quickly. VMware is
introducing Tanzu Kubernetes Grid 2.0, designed to help IT teams
and developers with a streamlined experience for managing and
provisioning the lifecycle of Kubernetes clusters. New capabilities add flexibility and control for
cluster creation with Cluster Class, open-source API alignment,
application lifecycle management capabilities, and Carvel-based
tooling. It is tightly integrated with and embedded in vSphere 8,
allowing customers to transform their existing compute
infrastructure into an enterprise-ready Kubernetes environment
across clouds. Tanzu Kubernetes Grid now also supports smaller
cluster sizes of a single control node and a single worker node,
available in VMware Edge Compute Stack 2.0, bringing simplicity and
scale to the Enterprise Edge. add flexibility and control for
cluster creation with Cluster Class, open-source API alignment,
application lifecycle management capabilities, and Carvel-based
tooling. It is tightly integrated with and embedded in vSphere 8,
allowing customers to transform their existing compute
infrastructure into an enterprise-ready Kubernetes environment
across clouds. Tanzu Kubernetes Grid now also supports smaller
cluster sizes of a single control node and a single worker node,
available in VMware Edge Compute Stack 2.0, bringing simplicity and
scale to the Enterprise Edge.
VMware Tanzu® Application Platform™ Adds Capabilities to
Improve Developer Productivity and Simplify DevSecOps
VMware customers with a cloud-native applications strategy are
looking to VMware Tanzu Application Platform as a value stream
platform to manage complexity in building, configuring, connecting,
and deploying new apps with a secure path to production. VMware
Tanzu Application Platform is designed to unlock developer
productivity by providing Application Accelerators and a pre-paved
path to production with all the needed components preconfigured for
developer teams to build and deploy software quickly and securely.
At VMware Explore 2022, VMware is pre-announcing new capabilities
in the Tanzu Application Platform that further enhance developer
and application operator experiences for any Kubernetes
environment, increase supply chain security, and offer additional
ecosystem integrations.
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.
- 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.
VMware Cross-Cloud™ services Helps Customers Navigate
the Multi-Cloud Era
At VMware Explore 2022, VMware is unveiling new and enhanced
offerings for VMware Cross-Cloud services to help customers
navigate the multi-cloud era with freedom, flexibility and
security. VMware Cross-Cloud services is a portfolio of cloud
services that deliver a unified and simplified way to build,
operate, access, and secure any application on any cloud from any
device. VMware Cross-Cloud service pillars include 1) App Platform
2) Cloud Management 3) Cloud & Edge Infrastructure 4) Security
& Networking, and 5) Anywhere Workspace. For the latest news
and more on how VMware is delivering a faster and smarter path to
cloud for digital businesses, visit the VMware Explore 2022 media
kit.
About VMware Explore
VMware Explore is an evolution of the company's flagship
conference, VMworld. VMware Explore aims to be the industry’s
go-to-event for all things multi-cloud. This year, it will feature
industry-led solution and technical sessions, an extensive
ecosystem of 90% of the top cloud partners, a thriving marketplace
of multi-cloud ISVs and several networking events. To learn more
about VMware Explore, please visit:
www.vmware.com/explore.html.
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trusted foundation to accelerate innovation, VMware software gives
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1The State of Kubernetes, March 2022, VMware 2ESG Research:
Bottom line benefits of VMware Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations,
Enterprise Strategy Group, June 2022
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