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Hi everyone, I have been away for the past few weeks with a little bit of PTO in between, hence no newsletter. I hope that you have all been well and following all of the announcements from VMware and of course all of the other virtualization and Kubernetes updates that have been coming out recently. I have a nice newsletter for you this week and will try and do a newsletter every week for a few weeks so we can do some catching up so lets get going with this weeks (and some of the news from the past few weeks).
I wish you all a fantastic week ahead.
Virtually Yours
Neil
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Tanzu Mission Control Supports Lifecycle Management of Tanzu Kubernetes Clusters on VMware Cloud on AWS
We are very excited to announce a key integration between VMware Tanzu and VMware Cloud on AWS that provides a significantly enhanced experience for our customers who want to deploy, run, and manage Kubernetes in VMware Cloud on AWS. With this integration, VMware Tanzu Mission Control now supports full lifecycle management—provisioning, upgrading, scaling, and deleting—of Tanzu Kubernetes clusters deployed on VMware Cloud on AWS.
2 Ways to Integrate the Jaeger App with VMware Tanzu Observability Without Code Changes
In microservices architecture, to identify performance issues—including latency—it’s important to monitor each service and all inter-service communication. Jaeger and VMware Tanzu Observability can help.
Jaeger is an open source, distributed tracing system released by Uber Technologies. VMware Tanzu Observability is a high-performance streaming analytics platform that supports 3D observability (e.g., metrics, histograms, and traces/spans). The Jaeger client is compatible with OpenTracing, so any client using an OpenTracing interface can easily be moved to the Jaeger client. It’s this Jaeger client that will help applications send span metrics to a Wavefront proxy. The integration of Jaeger with Tanzu Observability will help you visualize the application traces and identify any errors or performance issues. Anyone who wants to monitor its distributed application for performance and latency optimization can use this integration.\
VMware Tanzu SQL: MySQL at Scale Made Easy for Kubernetes
We are happy to announce that VMware Tanzu SQL with MySQL for Kubernetes 1.0 is generally available! Tanzu customers can easily run MySQL at scale on Kubernetes with this new release, which complements our existing Postgres engine for Kubernetes. Even better, with this new release Tanzu Advanced customers now have the two most popular open source operational databases included with their purchase.
Tanzu Recap
-Josh Long highlighted the recording of Day 1 talks from the recent SpringOne Tour installment, Booternetes II: The YAML Strikes Back, featuring a Tanzu dream team exploring different Spring ecosystem technologies and showing projects people can use to harness the power of Kubernetes https://spring.io/blog/2021/05/14/springone-tour-booternetes-may-12th-2021 |
-And if you missed SpringOne Tour Booternetes Europe a few weeks back, don’t worry! Josh Long has you covered. He posted a replay of two talks, one by Hannah Foxwell on the human side of building platforms, and one by Jakub Pilimon on the don’ts of software architecture and modeling https://spring.io/blog/2021/05/10/springone-tour-booternetes-europe |
-Josh Long announced the availability of the Azure Pipeline Task for deploying Spring Boot applications to Azure Spring Cloud https://spring.io/blog/2021/05/13/automate-spring-boot-application-deployments-to-azure
-On this episode of Between Chair and Keyboard, Nate Schutta put VMware Principal Platform Architect Adib Saikaliin the hot seat https://tanzu.vmware.com/developer/tv/bcak/27/
-On Tanzu Tuesday, Tiffany Jernigan hosted Gary Russell to give an intro to Spring for Apache Kafka and talk about what’s new in version 2.7 https://tanzu.vmware.com/developer/tv/tanzu-tuesdays/0053/
-On a Bootiful Podcast, Josh Long talked to Axon founder Allard Buijze about AxonIQ, the Axon framework, architecture patterns like CQRS and Sagas, and more https://spring.io/blog/2021/05/13/a-bootiful-podcast-axon-framework-founder-allard-buijze-on-cqrs-sagas-and-more
-Josh Long brought his adoring fans the latest Spring highlights https://spring.io/blog/2021/05/11/this-week-in-spring-may-11th-2021
Aditya Choudhary wrote this tutorial showing how to integrate the Jaeger app with Tanzu Observability without making any code changes https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/blog/2-ways-to-integrate-the-jaeger-app-with-vmware-tanzu-observability-without-code-changes |
-On TGIK, Evan Anderson took a look at Pixie, a new monitoring project being donated by New Relichttps://tanzu.vmware.com/developer/tv/tgik/154/
-Ning Ge announced a new integration with Tanzu and VMware Cloud on AWS, whereby Tanzu Mission Control now supports full lifecycle management of Tanzu Kubernetes clusters deployed on VMware Cloud on AWS
https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/blog/deploy-run-and-manage-kubernetes-on-vmware-cloud-on-aws-with-tanzu-standard |
-Marco Nicosia announced the GA launch of VMware Tanzu SQL with MySQL for Kubernetes 1.0! Now, Tanzu Advanced customers have access to MySQL and Postgres, the two most popular open source operational databases, included. https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/blog/vmware-tanzu-sql-mysql-at-scale-kubernetes |
-The team announced the addition of continuous and automated validation of third-party partner solutions available in Tanzu Marketplace https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/blog/vmware-continuous-automated-validation-isv-ecosystem-solutions |
-Then Vikrant Singh and Miguel Martinez Trivino wrote a post explaining how the new continuous validation service in Tanzu Marketplace works https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/blog/continuous-and-automated-validation-tanzu-solutions-vmware-marketplace-what-why-how |
-Keith Lee created this demo showing how to use the global control plane of Tanzu Standard to manage Tanzu Kubernetes clusters across environments
https://youtu.be/zuqxo0Fjhpk |
-Dean Lewis wrote a tutorial on using vRA to deploy AWS EKS clusters and register with Tanzu Mission Controlhttps://veducate.co.uk/vra-deploy-eks-tmc/
-Dean also pointed to this episode of the VMware CMTY podcast, on which he talked about his recent how-to posts on Tanzu Mission Control, Tanzu Kubernetes Grid, and vROPs https://veducate.co.uk/vmware-cmty-tanzu-vrops/
-Derrick Harris moderated this webinar with James Watters and Kit Colbert about infrastructure transformation, the benefits of running a standard, modern platform across infrastructure locations, and how to turn infrastructure into an asset https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/webinars/may-11-cloud-kubernetes-and-making-infrastructure-transformation-work-for-you |
-Matt Russell presented this webinar, talking about tools and techniques that can speed up digital transformation initiatives, and of course introducing Tanzu Labs’ App Navigator engagements https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/webinars/may-13-start-and-scale-your-cloud-initiative-faster-than-you-thought-possible|
-Dormain Drewitz gave this talk about how unifying apps onto one modern platform enables IT to reduce the complexity and cost required to manage them https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/webinars/may-11-paving-the-road-to-modernization |
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When VMware IT micro-segmented a complex enterprise planning and supply chain application, we moved one step closer to Zero Trust via micro-segmentation becoming the new normal in the data center. Read the case study
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