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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

Unboxing Tanzu Kubernetes Grid

In this section, we will review all the building blocks of TKG, including its interface and core and extension components. After that, we will understand the core concepts of this platform to understand how it works. We have a long way to go, so let’s start.

Building blocks of Tanzu Kubernetes Grid

As mentioned in the previous section, TKG is a collection of many open source tools that solve different problems that, together, make an enterprise-grade Kubernetes platform. We can distribute these components into three categories – interface, core, and extensions – as shown in Figure 7.2:

Figure 7.2 – Tanzu Kubernetes Grid bundle

Figure 7.2 – Tanzu Kubernetes Grid bundle

Let’s review all these components to learn about their roles in the TKG bundle.

Interface components of Tanzu Kubernetes Grid

As the name suggests, these components include TKG’s interfaces with users and infrastructure providers, including vSphere...