VMware frees access to VMware Tanzu platform
with new VMware Tanzu Community Edition, allowing customers to run
and manage Kubernetes-based containerized apps at no cost in
multi-cloud environments
VMworld 2021 – As organizations come to grips with the
reality of a permanent digital-first world, the pressure to
digitize and modernize operations remains high. While this
modernization is imperative, it’s equally difficult; true
digitization and transformation efforts are complex, extensive, and
must happen without compromising a company’s ability to support
ongoing business needs. Teams are challenged to build applications
that are more reliable, secure, intelligent, and adaptive and must
deliver them faster, at scale, and across any cloud. Today at
VMworld 2021, VMware (NYSE: VMW) is introducing advances to its
VMware Tanzu portfolio to enable management and operation of
applications at scale and provide developers with the autonomy to
build and deploy apps on any cloud.
“The changes brought on by accelerated digital transformation
initiatives mean software development teams are challenged to build
apps that are more reliable, secure, intelligent, and adaptive.
They must deliver them faster, at scale, and across any cloud.
That’s a daunting prospect no matter where an organization is in
its modernization journey,” said Ajay Patel, senior vice president
and general manager, Modern Apps & Management Business Group,
VMware. “With the breadth and depth of the Tanzu portfolio, VMware
is uniquely positioned to meet our customers where they are now,
providing the tools, training, enablement and services that will
help them progress along their entire app modernization journey,
across infrastructure, applications, and any cloud.”
VMware Tanzu Application Platform Adds Capabilities to Beta
Release
Introduced in its first beta1 at VMware SpringOne 2021, Tanzu®
Application Platform™ delivers a superior developer experience for
enterprises building and deploying apps and APIs on any Kubernetes.
It gets software teams to production faster and sustains them over
time by automating source to production pipelines and coordinating
the efforts of development and operations teams.
At VMworld, VMware is announcing new capabilities to the Tanzu
Application Platform Beta that will deliver the full end-to-end
developer and operator experience including:
- Supply chain choreography: based on the open source
cartographer project, allowing app operators to create pre-approved
paths to production for developers that integrate Kubernetes
resources and existing toolchains
- Developer tooling including IDE plugins: giving
developers the opportunity to interact with the platform or its
open source components easily and efficiently to execute important
and frequent pre-commit development tasks
- Intrinsic security: adding features for signing,
scanning, and storing images along the path to production
- Service bindings: Operators can specify how endpoints
and credentials from data services are exposed to workloads in a
portable and Kubernetes-native way
- Source controller: Enables app developers to create or
update workloads from local source code
- Convention Service: a framework for platform operators
to configure policies of deployed workloads to enable that all
workloads to follow the best practices.
Introducing Freely Available Software to Experience VMware
Tanzu
VMware Tanzu Community Edition is a freely available, easy to
manage Kubernetes platform for learners and users.
Community-supported, the open source software distribution can be
installed and configured in minutes on a local workstation or cloud
of choice, and automates end-to-end application delivery with a
complete platform for application developers, IT Operators, and
DevOps engineers.
VMware Tanzu Community Edition will enable learners and users
to:
- Explore Tanzu independently with freely available software
and services. Users can download no-cost, open source software
that is unencumbered by usage restrictions or functional
limitations; enhance learning with free access to top-notch
education and training resources, and get extra help with community
support that’s backed by committed and knowledgeable experts.
- Take on new challenges confidently with the same software
used in Tanzu commercial editions. Proven, enterprise-class
software enables end-to-end application delivery automation today,
while making sure that skills, knowledge, and artifacts are fully
transferable for use with Tanzu commercial editions.
- Get up and running in minutes on a local workstation or in a
preferred cloud environment. Users can quickly build a complete
Kubernetes-based platform customized to their needs, and run it on
a local workstation, in vSphere, or in a public cloud with compact,
single node and multi-cluster configurations.
Additionally, VMware is announcing a free-tier of VMware Tanzu
Mission Control -- Tanzu Mission Control Starter is a multi-cloud,
multi-cluster Kubernetes management solution available as a SaaS
service. Users can leverage Tanzu Mission Control Starter to get
global visibility and policy control over Kubernetes clusters –
whether on-premises or in any public clouds. Users can combine
Tanzu Mission Control Starter with Tanzu Community Edition to get
started on running and managing Kubernetes-based containerized apps
at no cost. And for those not currently using Tanzu but running
Kubernetes with other providers (such as AKS, GKE, EKS), those
existing clusters can be attached to Tanzu Mission Control Starter
to centrally manage them.
How Customers are Benefitting from VMware Tanzu
Drax Group is a renewable energy company engaged in renewable
power generation. “We looked at many solutions in the industry
for our IT modernization requirements and very quickly decided on
VMware Tanzu,” said Mark Leonard, director of IT, Drax Group.
“VMware Tanzu provided us a substantial benefit as it’s ready to
go, easy to use, sets our developers free and removes the
complexities of using public cloud tools where DevOps can sometimes
become a burden. We launched an industry-leading digital service
for our customers, managing their fleets of electric vehicles, and
it runs on VMware Tanzu. This allows us to deliver small reusable
blocks of capabilities that can be easily refreshed and built out
to deliver scalable future-proof applications.”
AI Development Simplified Through VMware vSphere with Tanzu
and NVIDIA AI Enterprise
In March 2021, VMware and NVIDIA announced an end-to-end
AI-ready enterprise platform that’s easy to deploy and operate.
This joint platform includes the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software
suite which has been certified, optimized, and supported by NVIDIA
for VMware vSphere. VMware is announcing that Tanzu Kubernetes Grid
Service, included in VMware vSphere with Tanzu, is now integrated
with NVIDIA AI Enterprise, enabling customers to automate the
delivery of containerized workloads, and proactively manage apps in
production.
Customers can now trial their AI projects on NVIDIA AI
Enterprise with vSphere with Tanzu, which lets IT operations teams
use their existing vSphere environment to deliver Kubernetes
clusters to AI developer teams at a rapid pace, while still
enabling enterprise-class governance, reliability, and security.
This allows enterprises to avoid AI silos and simplify management
by leveraging virtualization to fold AI developments into existing
enterprise infrastructure, accelerating AI adoption in the
enterprise.
VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Now Supports NVIDIA GPUs in
Amazon Web Services and Azure
As part of VMware’s dedication to providing an enterprise-class,
multi-cloud Kubernetes distribution, VMware is delivering one of
the most requested VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid features of
all-time – NVIDIA GPU support for Tanzu Kubernetes Grid, supported
in VMware vSphere, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Azure
environments.
VMware provides a consistent performant modern apps platform
that can run everywhere. With Tanzu Kubernetes Grid 1.4, VMware is
announcing NVIDIA GPU support for Tanzu Kubernetes Grid on AWS and
Azure environments.2 Cluster API, the upstream technology used for
cluster lifecycle management, supports GPU instance types for AWS
and Azure. Developers can now create and manage the lifecycle of
GPU-enabled clusters in Tanzu Kubernetes Grid for AWS and
Azure.
Enabling Partners’ Developer-Ready Clouds Powered by VMware
Tanzu
VMware is now bringing more self-service and DevSecOps
capabilities, including VMware Tanzu, to cloud provider partners.
With VMware, partners can offer customers fully managed
developer-ready clouds on-prem, as hosted private clouds, or in
VMware Cloud on AWS. The availability of VMware Tanzu across all
these environments enables partners’ customers to quickly build and
test cloud-native apps leveraging a managed Kubernetes service.
With VMware App Launchpad delivered through VMware Cloud Director,
for example, customers can access the building blocks they need to
develop their modern cloud-native apps and use this same platform
to then deploy their custom apps to production.
“There is high demand for container technology to support the
needs of developers that can be delivered from a highly secured
environment and that meets requirements in data sovereignty and
privacy,” said Pasi Sutinen, head of hybrid cloud at TietoEVRY.
“Tanzu Kubernetes Grid running on VMware Cloud infrastructure, with
VMware Cloud Director on top to manage multi-tenancy, enables
providers such as TietoEVRY to offer customers unified management
of workloads running on both VMs and containers. This combination
enables partners to deliver different levels of security and
isolation specific to each customer’s environment.”
VMware Helps Customers Navigate the Multi-Cloud Era
At VMworld 2021, VMware is unveiling its strategy to help
customers navigate the multi-cloud era and accelerate innovation
with freedom, flexibility and security. For the latest news on how
VMware is delivering a smarter path to cloud for digital
businesses, visit the VMworld 2021 media kit.
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