Prerequisites DNS Records Tanzu Learning Center allocates a wildcard subdomain for your workshops and content. This wildcard should be pointed at the external IP address of the tanzu-system-ingress's envoy service. Kubernetes cluster requirements Installation requires: Kubernetes cluster versions 1.20, 1.21, or 1.22 on one of the following Kubernetes providers: Azure Kubernetes Service Amazon Elastic
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Why Secure Software Supply Chain is really important ?
Tips to secure your Tanzu application platform workloads
Overview The Tanzu Application Platform is a cloud-native application platform that enables organizations to build, deploy, and manage modern applications efficiently. While it offers numerous benefits in terms of scalability, flexibility, and productivity, it is essential to address the security aspects of the platform. Securing workloads in the Tanzu Application Platform
Tanzu Application Platform – Customize TAP GUI
Tanzu Application Platform – Tech Docs using Azure Storage
Overview TechDocs is Spotify’s homegrown docs-like-code solution built directly into Backstage. Engineers write their documentation in Markdown files which live together with their code - and with little configuration get a nice-looking doc site in Backstage. For this post, I have TAP GUI running as part of view profile in multi cluster
Tanzu Application Platform – Accelerators
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
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
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
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