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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

Technical requirements

App Accelerator is a subcomponent of Tanzu Application Platform (TAP), which is covered in Chapter 8, Enhancing Developer Productivity with Tanzu Application Platform. To get started with App Accelerator, we’ll first need to install a Kubernetes cluster and then layer TAP over that. You’re free to use whichever Kubernetes distribution you prefer. If you’d like some guidance around standing up a cluster, the appendix at the end of the book gives several options for getting Kubernetes up and running.

Once you have a running Kubernetes cluster, you’ll need to jump briefly to Chapter 8, Enhancing Developer Productivity with Tanzu Application Platform, where we walk through the installation of TAP. That chapter walks through a more complex end-to-end use case, while this chapter focuses solely on the Application Accelerator component.

Depending on your Kubernetes cluster, your TAP GUI may be at a local address such as http://localhost...