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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)
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Part 1 – Building Cloud-Native Applications on the Tanzu Platform
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Part 2 – Running Cloud-Native Applications on Tanzu
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Part 3 – Managing Modern Applications on the Tanzu Platform

Outcome-driven approach

The Tanzu team at VMware came into existence just as Kubernetes was hitting its stride in the enterprise. VMware was poised for leadership in the space with the acquisition of Heptio, which brought deep Kubernetes knowledge and two of the original creators. It also acquired a well-honed philosophy of software delivery through the acquisition of Pivotal. The Tanzu team continues to deliver a thoughtful and nuanced Kubernetes-based application platform focused on meaningful business outcomes that were important to customers.

There is no doubt that many mature Tanzu customers were facing some of the problems with Kubernetes mentioned in the last section, but they were also focused on some key outcomes, such as the following:

  • Maximizing developer velocity, productivity, and impact
  • Maximizing operator efficiency
  • Operating seamlessly across the data center and multiple cloud providers
  • Making software secure by default

These were the outcomes Tanzu set out to achieve for customers, and in the process, they would take on many of the issues people were running into with Kubernetes.

The Tanzu portfolio would take an outcome-driven approach to deliver an opinionated Kubernetes-based cloud-native application platform that was optimized for operator efficiency, developer productivity, seamless multi-cloud operation, and application security. That is the platform that we’ll cover in this book.