Containers, Docker and Kubernetes. We hear so much about them these days, but the tech is moving so fast that it can be challenging to understand what they are and the impact they will have. Come to this session to get a foundational container technical education. Find out what they are, and why they are gaining so much traction in the development community. You will get a technical overview on containers and Kubernetes. The speaker will employ terms and use cases relatable to infrastructure engineers. You will also see some demos of this technology in action to bring the concepts home. This session will close with a short discussion of the latest VMware technology relevant in the container space.

Considering what is the best solution for your Kubernetes deployments? This session will cover the architecture and requirements to deploy VMware vSphere with Tanzu and VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid. We will discuss planning and post-deployment considerations.

Administrators are facing challenges trying to operationalize Kubernetes. Where do you start? Build a cluster from scratch? How hard is it to repeat? Is it still easily manageable and scalable? In this session, we will take a look at deploying Kubernetes clusters with VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid. We will go over the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid architecture and core concepts with a technical overview on automated multi-cluster operations, integrated platform services, and the alignment to open-source technologies.

In this session, you will learn about VMware vSphere with Tanzu. We will start with an overview of what Kubernetes is and why you, the vSphere admin, should be interested in it. We will discuss installation and configuration of vSphere with Tanzu, and go over the major components, such as vSphere pods, vSphere Supervisor Cluster and vSphere namespaces. If you’re wondering what all this Kubernetes stuff is or if you’re a vSphere administrator who wants a primer on where to go and how to get started with vSphere with Tanzu, then this is the session for you.

VMware vSphere now comes with an enriched storage control plane to provision and manage storage for containerized applications orchestrated by Kubernetes. In this session, you will learn how cloud native storage enables stateful applications running on Kubernetes to be deployed on the vSphere platform using any of the vSphere persistent storage options. Now, VI admins can easily manage containerized applications with the same operational consistency of managing virtualized applications. Using Kubernetes native CLI and VMware vCenter, you will see how storage can be deployed with policy-based management, how you can monitor these container volumes in vCenter, and how to remediate faults.

In this session, you will get an overview of VMware vSphere with Tanzu. We will dive deep into the networking model. Learn about the benefits for VI admins and developers.

Kubernetes is part of vSphere. With the latest enhancements it is even easier to deploy and manage. In this session we deep dive into the architecture, enable vSphere with Tanzu and deploy a Tanzu Kubernetes cluster. DevOps Ready Infrastructure in 60 minutes.

VMware vSphere with Tanzu is a powerful way to deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters. In this session, we will explore the performance characteristics of Kubernetes clusters provisioned using this platform. We will explain best practices in areas such as using Kubernetes objects and namespace-level resource controls; assigning pod resource requests and limits; sizing VMware Tanzu Kubernetes clusters; selecting virtual machine classes for Tanzu Kubernetes clusters; and configuring VMware NSX-T for Kubernetes. Using Weathervane 2.0, a Kubernetes-focused performance benchmark, we will show how following these best practices maximizes the performance and overall utilization of your compute infrastructure.