Kubernetes and Tanzu Ramblings
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
Learn how to make it transparent for applications to move from EKS to TKGm on vSphere by using IRSA
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.
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 …
Continue reading "Finding and Removing Stale CNS Volumes in vSphere"
The terms “microservices” and “containers” are used almost interchangeably today. While they do not mean exactly the same thing, it is true that the majority of enterprises containerize their software when migrating to microservices architecture. At first, building containers might be exciting, as it is a new and powerful technology. However, building a container properly …
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