Kubernetes and Tanzu Ramblings
What Is The TAP Namespace Provisioner Namespace Provisioner provides a secure, automated way for platform operators to provision namespaces with the resources and namespace-level privileges required for their workloads to function as intended. It enables operators to add additional customized namespace-scoped resources using GitOps to meet their organization's requirements and provides continuous reconciliation using the …
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In TAP 1.4, VMware added an additional optional package to TAP for the External Secrets Operator, and in TAP 1.5 they have enhanced the integration. What Is External Secrets Operator (ESO) The External Secrets Operator is a Kubernetes operator that integrates with external secret management systems, for example, AWS Secrets Manager, Google Secrets Manager and …
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TAP 1.5 is a major release for Tanzu Application Platform!!!!! This release includes, new components, new features, enhancements to existing features, and many bug fixes, all coming together to create an amazing release! There are way to many features in this release for a single blog post, so I have split the key enhancements I …
Problem Statement Many environments have an image registry such as harbor they use internally which is signed by a private CA. When trying to add a package repository to an attached cluster in TMC from a registry with a private CA, it will fail with an x509 certificate validation error. Solution TMC will deploy Kapp …
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TKG 2.1 has a very different configuration mechanism for clusters in comparison to previous versions of TKG. In this post we will discuss how to add trust for a CA certificate to a cluster in TKG 2.1.
At the time of writing this post, TKG 2.1 has been out for just under a week. TKG 2.1 is a major milestone, showing a truly promising future for TKG as a product. While there are still many rough edges which I will cover some of them in this post as well as some future …
TLDR - as of January 26th, you will need to update your TBS dependencies if you are building Spring Boot applications.This is related to the linked Known issue in TAP 1.4 but also effects previous versions of TAP. Preface A few days ago i was working on some TAP related testing, and all of a …
TAP 1.4 is a major release for Tanzu Application Platform which includes a bunch of really awesome new features, as well as improvements to existing features in terms of stability and UX.
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