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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

Provisioning Backing Services for Applications

In the previous chapter, we saw how to build application container images with ample security and without much operational overhead using Tanzu Build Service (TBS). These container images are the essential building blocks to run our cloud-native applications on container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes. We can deploy those container images on a Kubernetes cluster and run our applications. However, in real life, things are not that straightforward. In the majority of cases, business applications depend on backing services such as databases, queues, caches, and others. Additionally, there is an increasing trend to also deploy such off-the-shelf backing services as containers on Kubernetes-like platforms for various good reasons.

In this chapter, we will take a deep dive into VMware Application Catalog (VAC), which provides a secure, fast, and reliable way to use such open source backing services in a containerized environment...