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
Month: December 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