We are excited to share that Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated is now supported with Tanzu Application Platform. This is a critical step towards a more tightly integrated Tanzu portfolio and a particularly important enhancement for customers who are looking to accelerate application delivery on Kubernetes with ingrained security and scalability. Practically, this means that Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated can be used with Tanzu Application Platform to establish faster and more secure paths to production.
Why Use Tanzu Application Platform?
Kelsey Hightower has famously claimed that “Kubernetes is a platform for building platforms”, which is exactly what Tanzu Application Platform delivers. Tanzu Application Platform provides a modular framework to compose efficient and secure paths to bring code to production by building on Kubernetes and its rich ecosystem of CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) tools. It encourages collaboration between the platform operators and the application teams by dynamically exposing the elements that are needed for each function, simplifying the entire application delivery and continuous improvement process.
More specifically Tanzu Application Platform is comprised of a Backstage-based Developer Portal and a Secure Supply Chain:
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Developer Portal: With tool proliferation and constant context switching being a top concern for developer experience and productivity, organizations are trying to tidy up their tool selection. In this context, developer portals are rapidly gaining popularity and Backstage, with its vast selection of open source plugins, is becoming the industry standard to build from. Tanzu Application Platform expands upon Backstage to allow for further customizations and include an enterprise-focused catalog of plugins that address developer tooling needs in one place. These plugins cover areas such as code accelerators, DevOps productivity (through DORA metrics), application visibility, documentation, API discovery and security.
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Secure Supply Chain: The outer loop of software delivery is where the paths to production are defined. Tanzu Application Platform uses composable software supply chains to automate and templatize the CI/CD process with distinct steps and default selections that can be easily swapped with your preferred tools for each stage. By using those pre-paved paths to production, developers can push their code to production without worrying about infrastructure details while operations and security teams can integrate testing, scanning and compliance rules easily and be confident that they will be followed in every code push.
Tanzu Application Platform and Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated are built for organizations that prioritize security and scalability. Each product is enterprise-ready and boasts the industry's premier open source tools while promoting collaboration through clear definition of user personas and clean separation of concerns.
Get Started & More Information
As we are entering a new era for Tanzu, Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated is central to how we serve large enterprises to operate applications confidently and efficiently at scale. We are committed to continue supporting and bringing the latest innovation to this platform that is trusted and used for highly critical workloads by some of our most important customers.
Reach out to your Tanzu representative to learn how you can take full advantage from running Tanzu Application Platform on Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated
Learn more about Tanzu Application Platform on our website.
For more information and education on Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated visit the Tech Zone and the documentation page.
