AWS Finally Listens: After 5+ Years, ECR Gets Two Game-Changing Features The Long Wait Is Over In late 2025 and early 2026, Amazon Web Services released two of the most requested features in ECR’s history: Automatic repository creation on image push (December 19th, 2025) Cross-repository layer sharing via blob mounting (January 20th, 2026) For those …
Shift Down Security with KubeScape’s VEX Generation
One of the biggest challenges in the industry as a whole and in the DevOps world today in particular is vulnerability management. As we in the industry are trying to implement better security practices and to evolve the secure software supply chain whether by choice or by necessity due to governmental or industry regulations and …
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Stop Shifting Left, Shift Down to your platform
One of the things I have a huge issue with in the industry today, is the insistence on pushing a shift left approach. According to the CNCF glossary, Shift Left is the practice of implementing tests, security, or other development practices early in the software development lifecycle rather than towards the end. While this sounds …
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TAP 1.6 – TBS Improvements
Tanzu Build Service (TBS) is a key component of TAP, allowing for building images directly from source code without needing to write and maintain docker files. TBS itself is built upon the opensource project kpack which till recently was hosted under the pivotal github repo, and recently was donated to the Cloud Native Buildpacks project …
TAP 1.5 – Dynamic Service Provisioning With Crossplane
What Is Crossplane Crossplane is an open source, CNCF project built on the foundation of Kubernetes to orchestrate anything. Its basically the kubernetes native approach to solve similar issues and challenges that tools like Terraform, Pulumi and IDEM are trying to solve. Tanzu Application Platform makes use of Crossplane to power a number of capabilities, …
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TAP 1.5 – What’s New
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 …
Updating TBS Dependencies in TAP
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 …
Making TKGm feel like EKS
Learn how to make it transparent for applications to move from EKS to TKGm on vSphere by using IRSA
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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