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.
Integrating Trivy scanner in TAP
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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Tanzu App Accelerator – Deep Dive
One of the key features in Tanzu Application Platform is a tool called "Application Accelerator". In this blog post, we will try to cover what the tool is, why we need it, what makes up an accelerator, and try to give some examples of how these features can be used to build your own custom …
TAP And Helm – A Story Of YTT Magic
In this post I want to cover a really interesting scenario of customizing Tanzu Application Platform (TAP) I have been working on, and how YTT magician John Ryan helped me reach an elegant and really cool solution to an edge use case that I was really not sure how to handle. General Use Case The …
Easy Customization of TAP 1.2
One of the greatest features in TAP 1.2 in my opinion is something that many have overlooked, including myself in my What's new in TAP 1.2 blog post. A big challenge that exists with platforms such as TAP, is how do i go about customizing the platform when the defaults or configuration nobs provided by …
What’s New In TAP 1.2
Tanzu Application Platform just released version 1.2 and it is a huge release! The release not only has many bug fixes and security patches but also includes a whole set of new functionality that really brings TAPs capabilities to the next level! Support for Air Gapped Installation (Beta) One of the key things added in …
Static IPs for TCE and TKGm on vSphere
Preface Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Multi Cloud (TKGm) and Tanzu Community Edition (TCE) are both great distributions of kubernetes. Both of them are based on the same underlying technology and framework. This post is equally relevant and applies to both systems the same. Problem Statement One of the challenges we have encountered many times with TKGm …
Multi Cluster TAP – Why Do We Need It?
One of the great features in Tanzu Application Platform is that it supports a multi cluster deployment. Many people may ask, Why does this matter? and also may ask is this really needed? To answer these questions lets take a quick look back at TAS - A great VMware maintained PaaS solution and how it …