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DevSecOps in Practice with VMware Tanzu

By : Parth Pandit, Robert Hardt
Book Image

DevSecOps in Practice with VMware Tanzu

By: Parth Pandit, Robert Hardt

Overview of this book

As Kubernetes (or K8s) becomes more prolific, managing large clusters at scale in a multi-cloud environment becomes more challenging – especially from a developer productivity and operational efficiency point of view. DevSecOps in Practice with VMware Tanzu addresses these challenges by automating the delivery of containerized workloads and controlling multi-cloud Kubernetes operations using Tanzu tools. This comprehensive guide begins with an overview of the VMWare Tanzu platform and discusses its tools for building useful and secure applications using the App Accelerator, Build Service, Catalog service, and API portal. Next, you’ll delve into running those applications efficiently at scale with Tanzu Kubernetes Grid and Tanzu Application Platform. As you advance, you’ll find out how to manage these applications, and control, observe, and connect them using Tanzu Mission Control, Tanzu Observability, and Tanzu Service Mesh. Finally, you’ll explore the architecture, capabilities, features, installation, configuration, implementation, and benefits of these services with the help of examples. By the end of this VMware book, you’ll have gained a thorough understanding of the VMWare Tanzu platform and be able to efficiently articulate and solve real-world business problems.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Part 1 – Building Cloud-Native Applications on the Tanzu Platform
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Part 2 – Running Cloud-Native Applications on Tanzu
11
Part 3 – Managing Modern Applications on the Tanzu Platform

Day 1 – installing and configuring Tanzu Application Platform

To install Tanzu Application Platform, we’ll need a few things in place first.

Prerequisites and technical requirements

In order to install and run Tanzu Application Platform, there are some technical prerequisites that must be in place. Here’s a list of what is required:

  • A (large) Kubernetes cluster

The Tanzu Application Platform documentation lists several supported Kubernetes clusters, including Tanzu Kubernetes Grid and Minikube. However, to keep these instructions manageable, I’m going to recommend three public cloud Kubernetes clusters. These clusters are as follows:

  • Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

There are a number of reasons for this. Here are a few:

  • Easy out-of-the-box load balancer services. While we can make Tanzu Application Platform work with node ports, load...