Overview Tanzu Application Platform provides an easy way to browse and consume templates that have been approved for use by the organization. It's called Application Accelerator, and its hosted in the web interface for Tanzu Application Platform, also known as TAP GUI. Enterprise Architects use Application Accelerator to provide developers and operators
Year: 2022
Tanzu Application Platform – Setting up GitHub Authentication for TAP GUI
Overview Tanzu Application Platform GUI extends the current Backstage’s authentication plug-in so that you can see a login page based on the authentication providers configured at installation. The Backstage core-plugin-api package comes with a GitHub authentication provider that can authenticate users using GitHub or GitHub Enterprise OAuth. To add GitHub authentication, you must create
Tanzu Application Platform – API Docs
Overview The API documentation plug-in provides a standalone list of APIs that can be connected to components and systems of the Tanzu Application Platform GUI software catalog. Each API entity can reflect the components that provide that API and the list of components that are consumers of that API. The API documentation
Tanzu Application Platform – Security Analysis
Overview The Security Analysis plug-in summarizes vulnerability data across all workloads running in Tanzu Application Platform, enabling faster identification and remediation of CVEs, part of Tanzu Application Platform Full and View profiles. In TAP-GUI, Security Analysis plug-in is accessible from the left navigation panel. Click the Security Analysis button to open the
TAP Multi Cluster – App Live View
Overview Application Live View is a lightweight insights and troubleshooting tool that helps app developers and app operators to look inside running applications. It is based on the concept of Spring Boot Actuators. The application provides information from inside the running processes using endpoints, in this case, HTTP endpoints. Application Live View
TAP Multi Cluster Troubleshooting- An error occurred while loading data from the Metadata Store: Unauthorized
Overview Different Tanzu Application Platform GUI plug-ins use SCST - Store to display information about vulnerabilities and packages. Some errors visible in Tanzu Application Platform GUI are related to this connection.This post explains the steps to fix the error message An error occurred while loading data from the Metadata Store you see in
TAP Multi Cluster (1.3) : Part 3 – Deploy Application
Scan Policy The ScanPolicy defines a set of rules to evaluate for a particular scan to consider the artifacts (image or source code) either compliant or not. When a ImageScan or SourceScan is created to run a scan, those reference a policy whose name must match the following sample scan-policy: Note: In this policy, I
TAP Multi Cluster (1.3) : Part 2 – Install TAP With OOTB-Supply Chain Testing and Scanning using ACR Repo
Overview The installation order is flexible given the ability to update the installation with a modified values file using the tanzu package installed update command. For this demo, I will be installing TAP in following order: View Build Run Iterate Add Build, Run, View and Iterate clusters to TAP GUI Install View
TAP Multi Cluster (1.3) : Part 1 – Prepare The Setup
Overview VMware Tanzu Application Platform (TAP) is an application development platform with a rich set of developer tools. It offers developers a paved path to production to build and deploy software quickly and securely on any compliant public cloud or on-premises Kubernetes cluster. TAP can be installed in various topologies to
Deploy TKG (1.5.2) on Azure as Private cluster using existing VNet and NAT gateway
Overview With Tanzu Kubernetes Grid, you can deploy Kubernetes clusters across software-defined datacenters (SDDC) and public cloud environments, including vSphere, Microsoft Azure, and Amazon EC2, providing organizations a consistent, upstream-compatible, regional Kubernetes substrate that is ready for end-user workloads and ecosystem integrations. In this post, I will explain the detailed steps to
TMC : Create vSphere with Tanzu clusters using Terraform
Overview Terraform provider with Tanzu Mission Control gives operations teams the ability to be infrastructure agnostic and build a code pipeline that accommodates a variety of infrastructure back ends. With Terraform, you can attach any conformant Kubernetes cluster to Tanzu Mission Control, therefore providing increased DevOps velocity by offering an additional
Install multus-cni using TMC Catalog
Overview: Multus CNI is a container network interface (CNI) plugin for K8s that enables attaching multiple network interfaces to pods. Normally, when you deploy a pod, it will have single interface. so using Multus, you will be able to attach multiple interfaces to pod. This post explains how to install the
Install fluent-bit using TMC Catalog and forward the logs to Azure Blob storage
Overview Fluent Bit is a super fast, lightweight, and highly scalable logging and metrics processor and forwarder that allows you to collect data and logs from different sources, unify them, and send them to multiple destinations. Tanzu Kubernetes Grid includes signed binaries for Fluent Bit, that you can deploy on management
Install External DNS using TMC Catalog
Overview ExternalDNS service publishes DNS records for applications to DNS servers. This post explains how to deploy ExternalDNS into a Tanzu Kubernetes (workload) and dns zone deployed on Azure. Pre reqs Bootstrap machine with the following installed: Tanzu CLI, kubectl installed as mentioned here Tanzu Kubernetes Grid management cluster and workload cluster running
Install Grafana in TKG Cluster
Overview: Grafana is open-source software that allows you to visualize and analyze metrics data collected by Prometheus on your clusters. Tanzu Kubernetes Grid includes a Grafana package that you can deploy on your Tanzu Kubernetes clusters. In this post, I will explain the steps to deploy Grafana on a Tanzu Kubernetes