Tanzu What’s New – Nov 1, 2024

     

    “Quality is not an act,It is a habit” – Aristotle
November 1 2024

VMware Tanzu Product Releases
In this section, we will add releases information on Tanzu Platform for Cloud Foundry, Tanzu Platform for Kubernetes, Tanzu Data Services, and Tanzu Spring Essentials Products that are part of Tanzu Platform and Standalone solutions along with its release date and release notes. 

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Tanzu Documentation Migrated to New Home – Please Read!!!!
Tanzu Documentation migrated from docs.vmware.com to techdocs.broadcom.com.  Some of the release notes are still in progress and will add a note if that is the case below.

Tanzu Security Team Disclaimer:
The summary below is a review of the above product release notes from a security and governance point of view and may not reflect specific security or governance requirements you may require. It also does not include all details from the release notes. Please review the full release notes for release details.

VMware Tanzu Data Solutions
VMware Tanzu Greenplum 

• VMware Greenplum 6.28.0 is a minor release that includes new and changed features and resolves several issues.
• VMware Greenplum 6.28.0 introduces a new –min_ssl_protocol_version option for controlling the minimum permitted SSL/TLS version for gpfdist.
• Greenplum 6.28.0 now supports controlling the minimum and maximum permitted SSL/TLS versions through the GUCs ssl_min_protocol_version and ssl_max_protocol_version in postgresql.conf.
• VMware Greenplum 6.28.0 introduces a new UDF advanced_password_check.role_password_status(rolname TEXT) to display the password creation time, expiration time, and the role’s valid until time.
• VMware Greenplum 6.28.0 now supports viewing tables that failed to redistribute, tables that have been dropped, and user-expanded tables.
• Resolves an issue where advanced_password_check would error out when changing a password for a role with the valid until time set to infinity or null.

Check out the troubleshooting Tips and Resolutions on various Tanzu Products. This section is a great resource for you to bookmark and quickly prevent issues before pushing applications to Production.

VMware Tanzu 
Finding EOGS dates for Tanzu Products using the PivNet API – This KB article goes over the process of checking the EOGS/EOS dates for Tanzu products using the PivNet API.

VMware Tanzu Application Service (TAS)
Restore Cloud Controller Database from a TAS BBR backup file – This is useful for troubleshooting App Usage Report where it is using CCDB as source data.

VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Integrated Edition (TKGI)
TKGi Recreate a new Worker node with fresh Persistent Disk – Persistent disk corruption can occur due to underlying IaaS troubles.
Change a PV’s accessmode from ReadWriteOnce to ReadWriteMany or vice versa for a workload deployment – The aim of this article is to change a PV’s access mode. Please note that it is not supported for vSphere CSI.

VMware Tanzu
Top 5 Intelligent App Delivery Challenges and How Executives Can Solve Them (Blog) Camille Crowell-Lee, Dive into GenAI’s transformative potential, bridging AI creativity with user experience. Learn how VMware Tanzu helps manage rapid development cycles, team reskilling, and model accuracy.

Spring Cloud Data Flow
CF Weekly Blog: Log Management with SCDF (Blog) Nicky Pike, Mark Fynes In the world of Cloud Foundry, logs are like the platform’s diary – verbose, detailed, and sometimes chattier than your neighborhood gossip.

Cloud Foundry Weekly Series  –  Subscribe  | RSS Feed
Cloud Foundry Weekly: Exploring Sanford, GenAI, & cf-toolsuite updates: Ep 34– (Video) Nicky Pike, Nick Kuhn. Don’t miss this episode! Friend of the pod, Chris Phillipson, will return to share updates on the latest addition to the cf-toolsuite, Sanford! This new app will run, use the GenAI on the Tanzu Platform tile, and do some fun document analysis.

Upcoming Events and Webinars sorted in Date order below for your convenience with relevant links and information for you to not miss these key happenings.

VMware Tanzu Data Solutions
VMware Tanzu RabbitMQ
Unlocking the Power of Messaging: Introduction VMware Tanzu Rabbit MQ 4.0 November 13, 2024 @ 10AM PT (Webinar) Howard Twine Explore VMware Tanzu RabbitMQ 4.0’s groundbreaking features that enhance fault tolerance, boost throughput, and provide operational insights, simplifying architecture and increasing efficiency for microservices, IoT, and AI workloads.

VMware Explore 2024 Barcelona  November 4-7 2024
#VMwareExplore 2024 Barcelona!
Check out more details on this event |  Content Catalog  | Register

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon November 12-15 2024 
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s flagship conference gathers adopters and technologists from leading open source and cloud native communities in Salt Lake City, Utah from November 12-15, 2024. Experience The Kubecon + cloudnativecon |  Register for the event | Schedule

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Tanzu Hands on Labs (HOL) –  Self Paced Labs to try hands on Tanzu Products

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