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 – What’s New
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.
TAP PR Flow with Azure DevOps
Learn how to integrate TAP with Azure DevOps!
Making TKGm feel like EKS
Learn how to make it transparent for applications to move from EKS to TKGm on vSphere by using IRSA
Building Learning Center Workshops in TAP
Simplifying the creation of learning center workshops with Application Accelerators!
TAP With ECR – Crossplane And Kyverno To The Rescue
Preface Recently when working with TAP in an EKS environment, I started to get really annoyed with ECR. While ECR is a perfectly capable OCI Registry, it has a serious drawback when using TAP, which is the need to generate a repository in advance before you can push an image. As far as I know, …
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Integrating Trivy scanner in TAP
One of the really great features in TAP is the pluggable architecture of the scanning tools. In this blog post, we will discuss how one could build such a custom integration, using the very common scanner Trivy.
Finding and Removing Stale CNS Volumes in vSphere
During a recent reorganization of our vSphere lab environment, I was made aware that we had a very weird situation.We use vSAN as our main storage in the lab and we found that it was at over 95% percent used, but only 50 percent could be attributed to VMs and system data. After looking into …
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Tanzu CLI on Windows made easy
As the Tanzu ecosystem grows, the reliance on Tanzu CLI grows as well. While the CLI itself works very well cross platform, the main issue we consistently encounter is the pain of installing the Tanzu CLI on a windows machine. The process which is documented by VMware in the TKG and TAP documentation, is a …
Auto Generation of Certs for TAP Workloads
When we setup a TAP environment, one of the key aspects we must take into account is how we will be exposing our workloads outside of the cluster. By default, TAP workloads are deployed as Knative services and are exposed via plain HTTP which is not a very secure or production ready solution. Another option …
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