This document provides an agenda and materials for a workshop on VMware Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations. The agenda includes an introduction to challenges faced by platform teams maintaining Kubernetes platforms, an overview of Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations and how it can help address those challenges, and a hands-on lab session. Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations is a collection of products that provide capabilities for common customer needs around managing containerized platforms at scale, including simplified management of Kubernetes clusters across clouds, centralized visibility and security policies, and developer self-service access.
Transition to API-first, now defacto standard
Journey towards writing cloud native apps & VMware’s SaaS transformation
Partnerships with hyperscalers & VCPP’s
* Strategic imperative toward developer consumable infrastructure
* Migration from GUI driven to API driven first + control plane UIs
* OSS BU build out* Mult-cloud
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Modern Applications require modern infrastructure. Only VMware has the breath of technologies and services to help you modernize your entire existing IT stack and provide a developer experience built on today’s most innovative tools and platforms.
As enterprises accelerate their digital transformation initiatives, they are adopting a multi-cloud strategy. They are taking advantage of cloud native technologies like Kubernetes to deploy and run applications for faster time-to-market.
And as they do so most large enterprises today have millions of lines of existing code that are very difficult to maintain and change—but these applications are essential to the business and to the adoption of multi-cloud strategy. How can you extend the value of your existing software investment to benefit from the advantages of modern software delivery and operation? How can you simplify the way you run and manage modernized workloads alongside existing software? How can you get to production more often with new customer experiences?
Drawing on years of helping the world’s largest companies build the foundation for digital business, VMware is here for what might be your most important work: modernizing your applications and infrastructure. VMware Tanzu offers full-stack modernization, enabling you to transform your teams and your applications running on Kubernetes, while simplifying operations of your software across multi-cloud infrastructure.
* Where do you start in this journey?
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How do our customers move from existing and heritage applications to modern, cloud native applications?
You may hear this as the 5 Rs
On left side, work tends to go more quickly and results in IT-centric cost savings without much benefit from a time-to-market or business perspective. As you move to the right … efforts tend to deliver more business-centric benefits by helping to improve development velocity and IT efficiency through adoption of cloud native technologies and application architectures
It’s not a one size fits all approach. You must take into account business requirements and technology factors. Does it make sense to move based on licensing costs or revenue opportunities? Is this a mission critical system that requires urgent attention? And what is involved technically, based on existing tooling, frameworks, and dependencies.
A significant portion of apps are being rehosted or re-platformed – with strategic investment in new or rearchitected/refactored apps.
Think of rehost as a ‘lift and shift’. It’s moving apps to cloud infrastructure ‘as is’ with a VM instance running in your cloud of choice. This could assist in infrastructure costs, but you won’t see the benefits of running apps on the cloud. Others may go a little further to take advantage of the services of the cloud, like replacing legacy database instances with something managed by the cloud provider. This is more commonly termed replatforming.
Rec: What, Why, & How
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Elevator Pitch:
* Consistent Kubernetes runtime across clouds
* Simplify provisioning & configuration of clusters, such as L7 Ingress, logging, or enforcing security stds by default
Container based applications bring a new set of visibility challenges for each of the consumers. Developers need visibility into the microservices that are deployed across a variety of environments and how they interact. DevOps teams and SREs need visibility into a broader set of the stack and platform operators want to ensure that they are managing capacity and have the right level of visibility to be proactive. But most importantly, there needs to be a common point of view from the infrastructure to the application. Tanzu Observability provides just that - being able to ingest metrics from the whole stack and providing a common view for everyone to work from whether it is to provide alerts, accelerate troubleshooting, provide historical data, or even begin to predict trends through analytics.
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Arni & James
Overview of Tanzu portfolio and how Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations fits in
What we hear from customers on most important outcomes – speed developer cycles, security the SW supply chain, simplify and scale ops. These are the outcomes we’re focused on with the Tanzu portfolio – enabling orgs to speed app dev and delivery cycles, enforcing security and compliance requirements in the SW supply chain, and meeting their operations needs including connectivity, govnerance, observability, automation – in a multi cloud world
Looking at the key personas/teams we are targeting - Developers can focus on delivering key business logic. Security teams can ensure security and compliance guardrails are inserted end-to-end (and automated), and operations teams (or platform teams) can focus on the platform and the applications and clusters.
Starting on the right side of this flow, Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations is a cloud-agnostic platform that enables your teams to consistently and cost-effectively build and operate modern, distributed applications securely and at scale — on any cloud
On the left side, Tanzu Application Platform is a rich set of developer tooling with a pre-paved path to production for building and deploying software quickly and securely on any compliant public cloud or on-premises Kubernetes cluster.
And to accelerate your time to value, Tanzu Labs can step in to help modernize apps, build platforms and impart critical skills that will enable your teams to scale.