TL;DR | Tanzu Platform 10.2 and Spring
Tanzu Platform 10.2 release isn’t just another incremental update—it represents a fundamental change in how organizations can accelerate their cloud-native journey while maintaining the security and governance standards that enterprise environments demand. This release helps to shift the paradigm from reactive firefighting to proactive control.
| Feature | Benefit | Impact |
| Auto-generated manifest | Helps reduce migration time from months to days | Increase developer velocity |
| Compliance checks at deploy time | Catch non-compliance apps early | Lower audit risk |
| Enterprise Spring Cloud Gateway | Add API maturity without rewriting apps | Production-ready gateways |
| Smart code recommendations | Promote best practices through your IDE and CLI | Better apps, faster |
For more details about what’s new and why it matters, read on!
Spring Application Advisor: Your Migration Autopilot
Anyone who’s worked with legacy Spring applications knows the pain: dozens of configuration files, undocumented dependencies, and the always-present question of “where do we even start?” Spring Application Advisor tackles this head-on with automated Cloud Foundry manifest generation now available in Tanzu Platform 10.2.
Tanzu customers gain exclusive capabilities that drive efficiency and modernization, such as auto-generated manifests aligned to your Java version, simplified onboarding for complex multi-module applications, and a clear migration path from legacy Spring AutoReconfiguration on java-cfenv-boot.
For an enterprise with 50+ Spring apps, what used to take 6–12 months of manual work is now condensed into days. Application Advisor helps eliminate migration guesswork and reduces risk by producing consistent, secure manifests out of the box.
Instead of spending weeks manually crafting deployment configurations, your migration timeline shrinks to days. The automation doesn’t just save time—it helps to reduce the risk of human error that often derails migration projects. Your development teams can focus on business logic rather than infrastructure boilerplate.
Developer Enablement with Smart Recommendations
Application Advisor isn’t just for CI/CD pipelines anymore. It’s evolving into a smart companion for developers at every stage of the lifecycle.
New for both Tanzu Platform and Tanzu Spring Essentials:
- IDE integrations promote Spring best practices
- Code suggestions recommend commercial components where appropriate
- Reduces the need to reinvent the wheel
Productivity Wins:
- Automates Tanzu doc-steps for deployment
- Encourages reuse of hardened, compliant components
- Helps developers stay in their creative flow (“vibe coding”) without sacrificing security
Proactive Enterprise Governance: Compliance at Deployment Time
The Visibility Gap
With lots of enterprise extensions and possible configurations, maintaining consistency across a large application portfolio becomes nearly impossible without proper tooling. Security and compliance shouldn’t be afterthoughts, but too often, teams discover issues during audits or incidents. Tanzu Platform 10.2 introduces deployment-time compliance controls specifically for Spring apps.
Exclusively available to Tanzu Platform customers, automated safeguards detect, warn, and block Spring application deployments that include unsupported or non-compliant dependencies, based on open-source or enterprise support status.
This helps to:
- Gain confidence that deployed Spring apps meet enterprise standards
- Stop non-compliant apps before they hit production
- Customize controls: per app (JBP_CONFIG_VERIFY_COMPLIANCE) or platform-wide (JBP_DEFAULT_VERIFY_COMPLIANCE)
Platform teams can configure global policies, while developers get real-time compliance feedback in their build logs. Shift-left security made practical.
Spring Cloud Gateway, new Enterprise-Grade
API Gateways are the front doors to your application services and must do more than route traffic. They need to be fast, secure, and built to scale. With Tanzu Platform 10.2, Spring Cloud Gateway gets a serious upgrade for enterprise use cases, empowering organizations to evolve from OSS convenience to enterprise-grade readiness without having to replatform.
Feature Summary:
- Add enterprise extensions to OSS-based Spring Cloud Gateway apps
- Integrate performance, security, and management enhancements
- Easily add via Maven/Gradle or start.spring.io
These changes help your organization with:
- Faster time to market: Speed up the deployment of secure, policy-driven APIs across teams
- Lower operational overhead: Standardize gateway capabilities across projects without duplicating effort
- Reduced risk: Improve observability, authentication, and rate limiting to protect backend services and customer experiences
Bring enterprise-readiness to over 4,000 new Spring Cloud Gateway projects created every week. Tanzu Platform 10.2 can turn these projects into secure, scalable APIs ready for production without rewriting code or disrupting workflows.
Together, these features turn Tanzu Platform into more than just a runtime—it’s an enablement engine for developers and a guardrail system for platform teams.
What’s Next?
Enterprise IT isn’t just asking “How can we use Spring more efficiently?”—it’s asking “How can we govern it, scale it, and modernize it without disrupting the business?”
Tanzu Platform 10.2 delivers answers with automation, visibility, and confidence. As organizations adopt platform engineering as a core discipline, capabilities like these will move from nice-to-have to non-negotiable.
Teams that master these tools won’t just migrate faster—they’ll innovate faster, safer, and with more organizational trust.
Ready to take the next step in transforming your Spring development experience? Read the full Tanzu Platform 10.2 overview to explore everything new across the platform, from infrastructure to app modernization. Join us at SpringOne to hear directly from the Spring experts shaping the future of enterprise Java, and don’t miss our on-demand webinar to see Spring Application Advisor in action—whenever it fits your schedule.
