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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
7
Part 2 – Running Cloud-Native Applications on Tanzu
11
Part 3 – Managing Modern Applications on the Tanzu Platform

Getting started with Aria

In this section, we will learn about the following topics:

  • Setting up a trial account for Aria (unless you have an existing account)
  • Integrating a Kubernetes cluster with the account for monitoring
  • Accessing the default dashboards for the integrated Kubernetes cluster
  • Accessing the default alerts for various Kubernetes cluster conditions

Here are the prerequisites to follow along with the outlined steps in this section and upcoming sections:

  • A Kubernetes cluster with admin-level kubectl access
  • A workstation with kubectl and the helm CLI, access to the targeted Kubernetes cluster, and a web browser
  • A valid email address

As you can see, the prerequisites are very straightforward. Let’s start by integrating a Kubernetes cluster with an Aria service account.

Setting up a trial account

This section is optional if you already have an existing Aria service account that you would like to use. Otherwise...