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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

Overview of App Accelerator

App Accelerator is a tool that Alana uses to provide Cody and his peers with a vetted, approved, preconfigured jumping-off point in their language or framework of choice. With App Accelerator, Alana can handle repetitive, low-value tasks such as choosing a technology and ensuring its interoperability and compatibility with other apps and enterprise standards. This frees up Cody and his developer peers to deliver business value with great software.

App Accelerator consists of several APIs and interfaces geared specifically to either Alana the architect’s or Cody the coder’s persona:

Figure 2.5 – App Accelerator architecture

Figure 2.5 – App Accelerator architecture

Alana starts with a Git repo containing the skeleton of a project. In addition to boilerplate code, pre-approved libraries, and standardized documentation and testing structure, this project contains a special YAML file called, by convention, accelerator.yaml. This file contains the...