December 01, 2023

Tanzu What’s New - Dec 1, 2023 Edition

Get ready for an action-packed week with VMware Tanzu! Check out the latest updates on TAS, OpsMan, and TMC's Patch Update. Plus, we have exciting releases for RabbitMQ and Redis 3.x. Want more knowledge? Check out our valuable articles on TAS and TKGI. And don't miss out on Netflix's successful journey with the Spring Boot 3 upgrade. Ready to accelerate your applications? Learn more about Tanzu Application Accelerator Introduction. And for data protection, don't miss our article on TMC. Want to learn more? Join our upcoming webinars on VMware Application Catalog and accelerate business agility with Tanzu. Stay tuned for more updates from VMware Tanzu!

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Get ready for an action-packed week with VMware Tanzu! Check out the latest updates on TAS, OpsMan, and TMC's Patch Update. Plus, we have exciting releases for RabbitMQ and Redis 3.x. Want more knowledge? Check out our valuable articles on TAS and TKGI. And don't miss out on Netflix's successful journey with the Spring Boot 3 upgrade. Ready to accelerate your applications? Learn more about Tanzu Application Accelerator Introduction. And for data protection, don't miss our article on TMC. Want to learn more? Join our upcoming webinars on VMware Application Catalog and accelerate business agility with Tanzu. Stay tuned for more updates from VMware Tanzu!

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started." - Mark Twain

Check out Tanzu Product releases for this week with release notes and relevant links for more information. 

Product Name Version Release Date Related Links
VMware Tanzu Operations Manager (OpsMan)
Check the release notes to feature and component version details

2.10.66

3.0.20+LTS-T

2023-11-29

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VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs (TAS)
Check Release Notes for Feature improvements, fixes and component versions

5.0.3

4.0.13+LTS-T

2.13.31

2.11.49

2023-11-29

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VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs [Windows] (TASW)
Check Release Notes for Feature improvements, fixes, and component versions

5.0.3

4.0.13+LTS-T

2.13.28

2.11.42

2023-11-29

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SaaS Product Release Updates
Tanzu Mission Control (TMC)

  Support for Kubernetes 1.28

Patch Release

 
November Updates Nov 22nd Update
VMware Data Solutions
Spring Cloud Services for VMware Tanzu (SCS)
Fixes and details are included in Release Notes

3.2.1
 

2023-12-01
 

Release Notes
VMware™ RabbitMQ®
Check attached link for OVA documentation and details

1.5.2

1.4.5

2023-12-01

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VMware™ RabbitMQ® for Kubernetes
Check Release notes for package version changes and details

1.5.2

1.4.5

2023-12-01 Release Notes
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Other Releases
Redis for VMware Tanzu Application Service
Release Notes for Resolved issues and Security Fix details.

3.2.5

3.3.3

2023-11-29

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Isolation Segment (ISO)
Check Release Notes for fixes and component versions

5.0.3

4.0.13+LTS-T

2.13.28

2.11.43

2023-11-29

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VMware Harbor Registry
Check Release Notes for Key features and overview details
2.9.1 2023-11-28 Release Notes



Check out the troubleshooting Tips and Resolutions on various Tanzu Products. This section is a great resource for you to bookmark and quickly prevent issues before pushing applications to Production.

VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs (TAS)
Login tas-portal failed with "caused by PopupClosedError"  - When attempting to sign in tas-portal with UAA on TAS 5.0.2 by accessing URL "tas-portal.<apps domain>", it would fail with error.

"cf restart-app-instance" won't result in ASG change getting applied - Instead of using cf restart-app-instance command, different ways to restart an application to apply ASG is described in this KB article. 

VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition(TKGI)
TKGI update-cluster doesn't link compute-profile to cluster successfully due to duplicate tag keys - tkgi update-cluster is run to associate a compute-profile with the cluster, the command might return an error, check the article on cause and how to resolve the issue.


Spring Boot and Java 17
Check Netflix journey with Spring Boot 3 upgrade

Netflix’s success with Spring Boot 3 hints at a promising future for organizations looking to enhance their application performance and reduce costs. Key features of Spring Boot 3, including virtual threads, developer container support, native compilations with GraalVM, and support for Jakarta EE 11, open new possibilities for innovation and efficiency.

How Netflix Increased Application Performance with Spring Boot 3 and Java 17 (Blog) - Michelle S shares Netflix’s journey to Spring Boot 3 began in June 2022 and continues today, reflecting the importance of starting early to address the challenges associated with such a significant upgrade. The proactive approach allowed Netflix to plan meticulously and ensure a smooth transition. 

Watch the SpringOne Netflix session with Asi Bross at VMware Explore (Video) - In this session, Netflix will share what was learned from maintaining such a framework, and what changes are being made based on 3.x. 

How Netflix Is Upgrading to Spring Boot 3 (Video) - In this talk, you will learn from Netflix about the journey to upgrade its ecosystem of approximately 3,000 applications to Spring Boot 3.

VMware Tanzu and Kubernetes
Kubeapps: An Open Source Application Dashboard for Kubernetes from Bitnami by VMware Tanzu - Kube Apps is one of the open source projects that the Bitnami team at VMware contributes to.This blog presents an overview of Kubeapps and how you can use it to simplify your Kubernetes application deployments

Tanzu Application Accelerator
Introduction to the VMware Tanzu Application Accelerator  - (Video) In this video, Greg Meyer gives an overview of the application accelerator value proposition, including demonstrations of rapidly generating a new project from an accelerator template and how to create and publish your own custom accelerators.

VMware Tanzu Application Platform (TAP)
Explore Spring Application Architecture with Tanzu Application Platform: A Series - (Blog) This is an ongoing series of videos and blog posts exploring development and deployment of Spring applications with VMware Tanzu Application Platform. Content will be added and updated over time as the series production progresses. 

VMware Tanzu Mission Control (TMC)
Benefits of Data Protection with VMware Tanzu Mission Control  - (Video) Tanzu Mission Control offers simplified backup and recovery, strong multi-tenancy support, and application site recovery. It has an API-first approach, and you can recover your Kubernetes clusters from one site to another very quickly.

What Kind of Data Protection Do You Need for Kubernetes?  - (Video) Platform teams need specific protection depending on their application, which can be stateless, or store state in Kubernetes persistent volumes, or Kubernetes CRDs. 

Why You Need Different Backup Solutions for VMs and Containers  - (Video) Applications running in virtual machines (VMs) are mostly static and single tenant, relying on backup of the file system. Kubernetes is a multitenant environment with lots of metadata information (e.g., config maps, secrets, pods, etc.) and distributed applications.


Upcoming Events and Webinars sorted in Date order below for your convenience with relevant links and information for you to not miss these key happenings. 

VMware Application Catalog
Dec 5 - Kubeapps - An Open Source Application Dashboard for Kubernetes from VMware - Register today and get ready to elevate your Kubernetes experience!
 

VMware Tanzu
Dec 7 - Accelerating Business Agility with VMware Tanzu: Unifying Application and Operations Platform Control Plane Services - In this upcoming webinar, our guest speaker, Rick Villars, an industry expert from IDC, and Purnima Padmanabhan, GM and SVP at VMware, will address the innovation challenges faced by organizations today.


Tanzu What's New Series - Landing page  - Weekly Tanzu digest on Tanzu product Releases, KB Articles, Success Stories, Updates, Blogs, Videos & More. VMware Tanzu Twitter and linked in features this weekly series as well.  Follow the page which is convenient to you.

Tanzu Customer Newsletters - Monthly Product Feature Updates, Demos, Office Hours, Tips, Announcements. November Newsletters for TAS , TMC , TKGI are now available. NEW!!!!!!

Tanzu Academy - An on-demand, comprehensive learning hub for platform and application operators to become experts at achieving meaningful outcomes with Tanzu products.

Tanzu Fundamentals (Videos)

Tanzu Learning Resources

Tanzu Courses

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Aruna Srinivasan (She/Her)
Sr. Digital Content Manager - Tanzu Customer Success

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