Kubernetes and Tanzu Ramblings
TAP 1.6 is a huge release with some really awesome new features, both brand new components, as well as improving the experience around existing ones. In this series of posts, we will take a look at some of the key new features in TAP 1.6 including: Brand New Components: Local Source Proxy Tanzu Developer Portal …
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Across the Tanzu portfolio as a whole, their has been a major effort for a long time to build a truly cohesive and user friendly experience for operators and developers. Since the early days of TKG, and since the beginning of TAP, the Tanzu CLI has been a key element of how users interact with …
In TAP 1.5, VMware added the integration with Crossplane for dynamic backend service provisioning. With TAP 1.5, we also got a few OOTB Bitnami backed offerings that utilize this Crossplane integration. Now in TAP 1.6, this integration has been expanded to also support MongoDB and Kafka. These 2 new services integrate easily with spring boot …
One of the great features in TAP Developer Portal (previously TAP GUI) since the initial release, has been the app live view plugin, which can help visualize actuator data from spring based java applications as well as steeltoe based dotnet core applications. In TAP 1.6, Application Live View (ALV) has been enhanced with 2 key …
In TAP 1.5, a new installation model was introduced based on a GitOps model, utilizing the Carvel toolset under the hood, to power it all. With TAP 1.6, beyond overall bug fixes, and nice changes to the overall UX of the GitOps Installation method, a really key feature that has been added, is the integration …
The Supply Chain Visibility plugin in Tanzu Developer Portal (TDP) which is formerly know as TAP GUI, is a key element of the TAP solution. This plugin enables the visibility of our workloads "path to production" as it traverses through the cartographer supply chain. In TAP 1.6, there are a few key enhancements that have …
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Managing SSO for applications is a complex task, and since TAP 1.4, we have had a great feature called AppSSO, which is aimed at helping make the story of SSO integration much easier for developers and operators. In TAP 1.6, a major effort was put into AppSSO to make it even more streamlined, and simple …
The Metadata Store has been a key element in a secure supply chain within TAP since the GA of TAP, and it provides a central location where all CVE data and SBOMs are stored for our source code and images. In TAP 1.6, we get a great new set of functionality in the metadata store, …
One of the best new features, if not the best new feature in TAP 1.6, is the introduction of a new component called Local Source Proxy (LSP). One of the main challenges we have seen with rolling out TAP, is that while TAP aims to provide an abstraction above kubernetes, making the infrastructure invisible to …
Tanzu Build Service (TBS) is a key component of TAP, allowing for building images directly from source code without needing to write and maintain docker files. TBS itself is built upon the opensource project kpack which till recently was hosted under the pivotal github repo, and recently was donated to the Cloud Native Buildpacks project …