This is the first blog in a four-part series exploring why Tanzu Hub is a game-changer for platform teams.
Today’s complex multi-cloud environments mean platform engineers and developers face the constant challenge of fragmented tools and disparate interfaces. Managing application delivery, monitoring performance, and ensuring consistent operations across various platforms can be a daunting task, often leading to context switching, inefficiencies, and increased operational overhead.
Cloud Foundry customers can manage applications, foundations, and observability using tools like Tanzu Apps Manager (AppsMan), Operations Manager (OpsMan), and Healthwatch. While this has worked well for many organizations, the Tanzu team has been working on delivering a unified solution that brings platform management together, simplifying your workflows and boosting productivity.
Bringing it all together with Tanzu Hub
Tanzu Hub is the central user interface and control plane for Tanzu Platform—a powerful layer that brings all your Tanzu Platform foundations together in one place. Whether you’re running a handful of foundations or managing dozens across business units and geographies, Tanzu Hub offers:
- A single dashboard to view and manage foundations, application deployments, service bindings, platform and application performance, and infrastructure usage
- App-to-Infra observability with visual topology views showing how apps, services, and underlying platforms and the infrastructure layer relate to one another
- A graph-based data store that enables fast, deep queries across environments for advanced insights and troubleshooting
- Customizable dashboards and alert engines to quickly find problems, with runbooks to codify troubleshooting data
- Built-in compliance tooling to help teams meet internal policies and regulatory frameworks (like STIG, PCI, and NIST)
In short, Tanzu Hub gives platform teams a complete, up-to-date picture of their Tanzu Platform ecosystem—without requiring external tools or plugins, and helps them focus on the key details that require their attention.
Figure 1: Tanzu Hub home screen shows at-a-glance views of critical alerts for foundations, diego memory capacity, status of app instances, and under-utilized applications.
Seamless Integration via Tanzu Platform Tile
Getting started with Tanzu Hub is remarkably simple. With Tanzu Platform 10.2, it’s available as a tile in Tanzu Operations Manager (OpsMan), making installation and upgrades straightforward.
There’s no need for complex configurations, no infrastructure re-architecture, and no multi-step setup processes. Just install via the OpsMan tile, connect your foundations, and you’re up and running.
Figure 2: Tanzu Hub tile installation requires only a hostname, certificate and Tanzu Platform key to configure and get up and running.
What’s in it for me?
Tanzu Hub isn’t just another tool; it’s a game-changer for your organization. Here’s why customers like you should care:
- Easy onboarding: Easily deploy from OpsMan tile with minimal configuration and headache. Easily connect foundations and ingest existing applications and services, as well as existing role-based access controls from foundations.
- Streamlined Operations: Bid farewell to context switching. Tanzu Hub begins to consolidate disparate tools into a single, intuitive interface, drastically reducing complexity for platform engineers and developers alike. Tanzu Hub helps identify configuration drift across your Tanzu Platform estate, analyze CVEs, assess capacity and performance to optimize your fleet.
- Cost Savings: Reduce your reliance on expensive third-party tools. By integrating robust observability, management, and analytics capabilities directly into a single platform, Tanzu Hub helps you optimize your existing investments and realize significant cost efficiencies.
- Enhanced Productivity: Through unified management and a streamlined interface, teams can deploy and manage applications faster, leading to quicker time-to-market, decreased troubleshooting, and increased overall productivity.
- Future-Ready: Tanzu Hub is built to support modern application needs, including the burgeoning demands of GenAI and Spring applications. With integrated AI-powered tooling with Tanzu Intelligent Assist and comprehensive compliance features, Tanzu Hub ensures your platform is ready for the innovations of tomorrow.
- Real-World Value: Ultimately, Tanzu Hub transforms fragmented, manual processes into a streamlined, insight-driven experience. It provides the visibility and control necessary to move from reactive troubleshooting to proactive management, driving real operational excellence.
Try Tanzu Hub Today
If you’re a Tanzu Platform customer, Tanzu Hub is available now in Tanzu Platform 10.2 and is easy to explore, installed right from OpsMan. Not yet a Tanzu Platform customer? Request a demo.
VMware Explore will be held at The Venetian in Las Vegas from August 25 to August 28, 2025. You can see the Tanzu Platform in action at the VMware booth or during any of our breakout sessions throughout the week. This event is also a great opportunity to ask questions of experts, network with peers, and deepen your knowledge of VMware solutions.
Stay tuned for our next blog, where we’ll dive into Tanzu Hub’s fleet-wide visibility and how it simplifies multi-foundation management at scale.
