Kubernetes and Tanzu Ramblings
Crossplane has been updated to version 1.12.1 in TAP 1.6 and this bring along some really amazing features! Beyond the bump of crossplane which we will discuss in length bellow, a few more fixes and additions were made to the TAP packaging of Crossplane to improve the UX. These updates include the support for installing …
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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The TAP IDE plugins are a critical element of the platform, as they are the main interface for most developers to the platform, and meeting developers where they want to be, which is within their IDE is a critical element of any good platform. As is the case with every release of TAP, the IDE …
TAP has many features which help with securing our software supply chain. One of the key elements of security is obviously source code and image scanning which TAP has had since GA, but as we all know, finding the vulnerabilities is one thing, but how to triage these found vulnerabilities is an entire beast in …
As part of the new version of the scanning mechanism in TAP which was released in Alpha in version 1.5, and has now been promoted to Beta in TAP 1.6, we now have a new component called the Artifact Metadata Repository Observer (AMR Observer). Overview This new component is part of the Artifact Metadata Repository …
The new scanning model "Supply Chain Security Tools - Scan 2.0" which was introduced back in TAP 1.5, now includes some great new improvements, and has been promoted from Alpha to Beta! The new model, is much easier to extend and customize to your own organizations needs, and is built with a more scalable and …
Backstage is an amazing CNCF Project which is the base for the Tanzu Developer Portal (TDP) which was previously known as TAP GUI. While since the initial GA of TAP, we have had a great portal, which has been enhanced with every release, the portal has not been able to take full advantage of the …
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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 …
In the Kubernetes world, Prometheus and Grafana are de-facto standards for monitoring. TAP is a truly amazing platform, but one of the main areas it currently lacks, is a good monitoring story. While some of the components used within TAP have metrics endpoints, many of them don't, and even those that do, correlating between one …
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Recently i was working on a deployment of TAP for a customer on top of a few TKGi clusters. While TAP works on any conformant kubernetes cluster, as I have said many times, Kubernetes is not 100% cloud agnostic, and every distribution can have some weird quirks. When deploying to TKGi a few of these …