Kubernetes and Platform Engineering Ramblings
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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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
One of the really cool projects VMware is working on is a new tool called the "vROPS Management Pack Builder" which is currently in a closed Beta state. I was privileged to be accepted into the beta program, and have been playing around with it for the past few weeks. I also have been playing …
Preface One of the questions I get asked often is how did I learn the Tanzu portfolio. While there are many people that are more qualified then myself on the Tanzu portfolio, I have been working with the portfolio for quite a while and have learned a few tricks that can help people get started …
Overview One of the questions I get asked very often is on what the differences are between the different Tanzu editions. While the information does exist out there, it is very hard to connect the dots, and the sources of information and spread across multiple websites and PDF files and are full of marketing terms …
Recently, when working on updating our Ansible and Packer automations for building the TeraSky TKG / TCE / TAP Admin VM appliance we encountered an edge case with ansible that was very interesting. Within the Admin VM appliance we install many different tools and CLIs that can be helpful to have when administering a kubernetes …