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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

The need for VMware Tanzu

Companies with a large development footprint that were looking at or actively using Kubernetes faced two sources of resistance. First, they faced a myriad of problems running Kubernetes at scale across multiple teams. These are the problems listed at the end of the Kubernetes section of this chapter. Second, these teams were under pressure to use technology to deliver meaningful outcomes. This meant developers needed to be operating at their full potential with minimum friction, and operators needed to be able to scale across multiple teams with a unified set of tools. This is the outcome-driven approach described in the previous section. VMware Tanzu is a portfolio of tools geared specifically toward addressing both sets of needs for software teams.

This diagram highlights where VMware Tanzu fits both as the next iteration of software platforms on Kubernetes, as well as the integrated toolkit enabling world-class outcomes from software development, operations, and security engineers:

Figure 1.1 – VMware Tanzu in context

Figure 1.1 – VMware Tanzu in context

Now that we’ve established the context that prompted the creation of VMware Tanzu, we’re ready to describe the product itself.