Tanzu What’s New - Mar 24, 2023 Edition

 “Some days you just have to create your own sunshine.” - Sam Sundquist                                                      Read Previous Tanzu Updates  

Check out Tanzu Product releases for this week and release notes for more details.

VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG)

• When running kubectl commands after tmc login we get "error: You must be logged in to the server (Unauthorized)" (88429) - This happens when the pinniped/APIServer pods are running on different nodes which do not have the same system time configured. Applicable for TKG and TMC
• NTP service shows as inactive on TKG clusters in Photon OS (91289)  - When you run timedatectl command, Photon OS, the NTP service will be shown as inactive. Applicable for TKG clusters
• kapp-controller fails to reconcile vsphere-csi app after upgrading TKG from v1.4.0 to v1.5.4 (91248) - For clusters with fewer than 3 control plane nodes , this change disables kapp-controller from matching the current number of CSI replicas to the desired state.

VMware Tanzu Operations Manager (Ops Man)

• How to increase BOSH healthmanager agent_timeout settings in Opsmanager - This article explains how to edit the default value of BOSH healthmanager's agent_timeout which is 60 seconds.
• HealthWatch dashboard shows incorrect BOSH Director memory usage - When checking the "Memory Usage" graph in Grafana, it displays a value between 0 and 1 which is incorrect. Fix details are in the KB article.

VMware Tanzu Application Services for VMs (TAS)

• High disk usage for application - Application instance disk usage reaching 100% which causes the application instance to fail. Check the article for resolution and root cause details.
• Unable to share service instances between spaces in Apps Manager in TAS 2.13+ and TAS 3.X - This is a known issue affecting TAS 2.13.13+ and TAS 3.x versions, Check the KB article for the details.

SoftBank Corp
Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) - Success story of SoftBank Corp with TKG
Headquartered in Japan, SoftBank Corp. is a leading telecommunications business with a sweeping mission. SoftBank implemented VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid and was able to quickly deploy a new Kubernetes infrastructure.  Read the story here SoftBank Corp. speeds development of new 5G services with VMware.

Little Stuff
About Little  Chris Little, has been with Emerging Products Group as a support lead over VMware Cloud Foundation and Tanzu suite of products. He has written a lot of blogs on Tanzu and Kubernetes topics. Check them out here.  Most recent Tanzu blogs are below. His blogs are detailed to the core with each step outlined.

• Supervisor Cluster Namespaces And Workloads
• vSphere 8 With Tanzu And NSX Installation

viktorious.nl - All things cloud-native
Viktor van den Berg, Senior Solution Engineer Application Platforms Tanzu at VMware. Checkout the following Tanzu blogs and recently for Building and Deploying applications on Tanzu Application Platform (TAP)

• Building and deploying your first app on Tanzu Application Platform (3/3) – Explore TAP GUI  Previous parts are here Part 1 Part 2

Tanzu Application Services for VMs (TAS)
VMware Tanzu Application Service increases its value with Spring Boot 3 - Nick K blogs about DaShaun Carter’s findings on how a developer can use new features of TAS along with Spring Boot 3 to reduce memory consumption and his github page details to deep dive in etc.

The Firehose is Out, Syslog is In | Part 1 - Nick K and Matthew K recap on the current logging infrastructure of Cloud Foundry and VMware Tanzu Application Service and deep dive into what to do to improve the overall logging architecture and platform engineering experience.

VMware Tanzu - Do you want to become an advocate of VMware Tanzu??
Announcing the VMware Application Modernization vExpert Program 2023 - Keith Lee

This program is designed to recognize individuals who are passionate about sharing their knowledge of VMware technologies with the broader community. You will be the cream of the crop when it comes to application modernization knowledge, including platforms that modern applications run on. Read more on the above blog and March 24th is the last date to apply but Watch this space for the next opening dates to apply and latest updates.

Tanzu Application Service for VMs (TAS)
Apr 19 - What’s new with VMware Tanzu Application Service 4.0 LTST - Nick K  and Karim C will be happy to answer questions. Attend this webinar to learn about the latest long-term support release for Tanzu Application Service and improve developer productivity, platform experience and ecosystem updates for TAS.

Tanzu Mission Control (TMC)  Recording
Mar 23 - Terraform, GitOps, Helm: Seamless Automation and Package Management with Tanzu Mission Control - (Webinar Recording) Corey D and Scott R presented this webinar, if you had missed it, please catch up the recording.

Tanzu Talk PodCast
Your Three Friends , Edward Grigson, Ben Wilcock  and  Michael Cote do a regular developer focused podcast on current industry topics. This week Coté discussed with Ben W casually on Orly!  operations people starting working closely with developers. Does that really happen!!, chat GPT etc  Do Subscribe to not miss their enriching topic discussions.

General -  Developers!! Set them up for Success
March 29 - Mar 29 - Dev Deep Dive: Continuous Learning as a Developer - Learn how developers can set themselves up for success with a productive continued learning routine.

Golden Path to SpringOne Join in Application Developers !!!
Lineup of Speakers from VMware and beyond, cover everything from Spring, programming tools, platforms, and tech stacks to the people, processes, culture changes, and real-world stories that will empower today’s developers to do more. New shows air every Tuesday and Thursday at 2pm ET until we see you at SpringOne at VMware Explore in August 2023.

• March 28 - Tuning the Streams for Music Artists - This story is about Kobalt Music Group, founded in 2000 in New York City, with founder Willard Ahdritz, a native of Sweden. Learn how Kobalt collected micropayments on each of these uses directly from these platforms, putting it up on its portal line by line in real time.
• March 30 - Build Better, Deploy Faster: Spring Boot + Spring Cloud in the Cloud for K8s-Based Microservices - Learn how to leverage proven patterns and open source software to rapidly build a robust portfolio of microservices that provide a solid foundation for your dynamic and growing microservice architecture.

VMUG User Conference Coming up Apr 11th in Seattle  Event Overview
You don't want to miss the opportunity to take a technical deep dive led by industry experts. Register here

VMware Explore India is here! Register now!  - Apr 11- 12th  Agenda
Don't want to miss out on insightful tech sessions by experts, exhilarating activities, and hands-on learning experiences, save the date and register now! Watch the video for more!

VMware Explore 2023 on its way to Save the Date! - Las Vegas - Aug 21-24
Save the date, will keep you posted on agenda and sessions.  Stay tuned!!!  Other Explore 2023 Location and Schedules

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