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vCloud Director Updates: 10.4.1 Release; Theming Experience; Service Support on OCVS; Kubernetes-as-a-Service with CSE; & App Launchpad

VMware Cloud Director 10.4.1 Brings New Features & Enhancements

Earlier this month, we announced the general availability of VMware Cloud Director (VCD) 10.4.1. This release includes new features and enhancements to existing ones.

Dive into VCD’s New Theming Experience

This blog post highlights VCD 10.4.1, which features a new UI and API where providers can create, manage and assign themes for their tenants. The UI provides a live preview of the look and feel of the VCD Portal when configuring the theming, branding, links and menus. You can migrate the themes created with the old branding APIs.

VCD App Launchpad 2.1.2 Delivers Pair of New Features

VMware VCD App Launchpad 2.1.2 delivers two new features for cloud providers and tenants to focus on delivering innovative applications by providing the most-up-to-date developer tools and simplified container infrastructure in a secure environment. This release supports Container Service Extension (CSE) 4.0 so that tenant users can provision Kubernetes clusters using CSE 4.0. This release also supports VMware Application Catalog (VAC) Helm chart, enabling service providers to import VAC helm chart repositories into App launchpad and tenant users to deploy VAC helm charts to Kubernetes clusters.

Offer Kubernetes-as-a-Service with VCD Container Service Extension 4.0

Learn more about this VCD Container Service Extension (CSE), which introduced a new technical stack and feature set.

This CSE 4.0 release:

  • Delivers advanced compute capabilities and improved resilience and scalability to provide increased flexibility.
  • Delivers enterprise-grade, standards-based Kubernetes Cluster services for developers with VMware.
  • Enables users to create customized Kubernetes templates and import standard VMware Tanzu.
  • Helps users deploy and manage fully functional, secure Kubernetes clusters via Kubernetes Grid OVA (TKG templates).

Expanding Multi-Cloud Services on Oracle Cloud VMware Solution

VCD service support for managing multi-tenancy or private SDDC services on Oracle Cloud VMware Solution (OCVS) is now available. OCVS is an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) service, sold and supported by Oracle and verified by VMware, that runs on Oracle hardware in all Oracle data centers. VCD service is sold and offered as a SaaS service operated by VMware to VMware cloud provider partners and enterprise customers. Learn more in this solution brief and blog post.