Kubernetes and Platform Engineering Ramblings
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 …
TAP IDE Plugins In TAP one of the key elements and interaction points with the platform, are the IDE plugins which currently exist for 3 IDES: Visual Studio Code IntelliJ Visual Studio These plugins are the key interaction point that developers utilize on a day to day basis, in order to develop their applications with …
What Is ACS ACS or Application Configuration Service, is a new optional component added in TAP 1.5. ACS, is a Kubernetes native replacement for the Spring Cloud Config Server, which was an essential part of a Spring Cloud based microservices based architecture, heavily used by Spring based workloads in the Cloud Foundry and Azure Spring …
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App SSO Overview App SSO is one of the great features offered in TAP, which has received a bunch of love in TAP 1.5 App SSO provides the needed APIs for curating and consuming a "Single Sign-On as a service" offering on Tanzu Application Platform. Through App SSO, one can easily integrate TAP based workloads …
In TAP 1.5, an amazing addition was made, with the inclusion of an additional package "Spring Cloud Gateway For Kubernetes"! This is a VMware product which was initially released in February 2021 as a standalone product, and is now included as part of TAP! Spring Cloud Gateway for Kubernetes is based on the open source …
Background Back in December 2022, While working on designing a TAP implementation for a customer of mine, I came to learn that they use Azure DevOps as their Git server. Immediately i decided to take a look at how it would work with TAP, and ran into a bunch of issues. Azure DevOps is not …
Application Accelerator Overview App Accelerator helps you bootstrap developing your applications and deploying them in a discoverable and repeatable way. You can think of app accelerator as a way to publish a software catalog to your end users, which will allow them to fill out a simple and customizable form, that will then generate a …
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