Tanzu What’s New - Dec 15, 2023 Edition

Don't miss out on the latest Tanzu updates! Subscribe to our RSS feed and stay informed on the go. This week, we've got exciting releases for Tanzu Application Platform, Tanzu Operations Manager,  and Gemfire for TAS. Take a look at our valuable KB articles and Exciting Success story of AFCU with Tanzu Kubernetes Operations and Aria Operations. Plus, enjoy Blogs on Tanzu Application Catalog and Data Services. And don't forget to join our upcoming webinar on Tanzu Application Catalog on Jan 18th. Happy Holidays, see you all with exciting Tanzu updates In January 2024.

Wrapping up this year with this update and Next edition would be resuming from January 2024. Wish you all a safe holiday and a very happy new year.

"I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday." — Eleanor Roosevelt
Check out Tanzu Product releases for this week with release notes and relevant links for more information. 

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 Platform (TAP)
TAP workload deploy failed due to pod was evicted with message "The node was low on resource: ephemeral-storage" - Customer using TAP v1.6.2 with TKGs underlying found that they are unable to create new workloads in TAP iterate cluster. 

Upgrade path for TKr 1.25 with TAP 1.6.x to TKr 1.26 with TAP 1.7.1 or higher version - TAP 1.6.x supports only TKr 1.25 on vSphere with Tanzu and TAP 1.7.x supports TKr 1.26 onwards. 

VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG)
How to rotate certificates in a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid cluster (86251) - This article describes the process to rotate the Kubernetes core components including kubelet for both Management and Workload Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) clusters. 

Persistent volume is failing to attach with Error: "The input volume is not registered as a CNS volume" (90699) - CSI volumeattachment is getting below error while attaching PV to k8s node.

America First Credit Union succeeds with VMware Tanzu
Modernizing infrastructure to migrate to the cloud

America First Credit Union is the sixth-largest credit union in the U.S. in total membership and eighth largest in assets. Utah's largest credit union, America First Credit Union (AFCU) faced significant IT challenges that affected its ability to develop new offerings and contain banking costs. Using VMware multi-cloud solutions, AFCU plans to automate its infrastructure to enable developers to focus on strategic tasks, boost efficiency and enhance the member experience.

“We selected VMware Tanzu because it was one of the only products that can help us orchestrate multiple stacks, and though we knew we might face challenges, we were prepared to take the leap. VMware Tanzu solutions provide the platform for my most expert developers to do their best work, from concept to solution rollout, without the need for additional coordination or large teams.” - Tim Hansen, IT Operations Manager, AFCU

AFCU modernizes with automated, multi-cloud infrastructure (Blog) 
AFCU success story with VMware Tanzu (Video)  (Note : if this link does not work, check the above blog which has Watch Video on top)

Tanzu Application Catalog
Tanzu Application Catalog Embraces ARM: A Leap Toward Versatility and Efficiency - (Blog) Sam Wang explains on how Tanzu Application Catalog users have been able to get container images in the x86-64 format. However, from now on, container images packaged with Debian, Photon OS, or Red Hat Universal Base Image (RH UBI) as the base OS image will be shipped as multi-architecture images, supporting ARM64 as well as x86-64.

Streamline Your AI Workflows with Bitnami Package for Milvus  - (Blog) David Gomez shares In this blog post, the basics of using Milvus, how to obtain the Bitnami package for the Milvus Helm chart from Bitnami Application Catalog and Tanzu Application Catalog, 

VMware Data Services 
Building Modern Data Microservices with VMware Tanzu Data Services  - (Blog) Gregory Green, shares the benefits of using Tanzu Data Services with microservice frameworks such as Spring and Steeltoe.

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.

Tanzu Application Catalog
Jan 18 - Tanzu Application Catalog: Mitigating Open Source Software Supply Chain Risks - Join this webinar to learn how you can use VMware Application Catalog and its usage of open source software ,security and improved compliance posture.

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