Tanzu What’s New - Mar 3, 2023 Edition

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu

Tanzu Product Releases                                 Read Previous Tanzu Updates

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

Knowledge Base Article

VMware Tanzu Operations Manager (Ops Man)

• Stemcell upload issue with CPI error "execution expired"  - This article explains how to troubleshoot a stemcell upload problem when the Apply changes fail with this error.

VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs (TAS)

• "No data" issue shown for bosh-director-health on healthwatch 2.x due to the ID issue of p-bosh-GUID  - Prior to Ops Manager 1.8.4, the BOSH product had an ID of p-bosh-GUID. After OM 1.8.4, new installations had an ID of just p-bosh. Check KB for workaround and resolution details.

VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated (TKGI)

• TKGi cannot get clusters from TKGI: Status: 422 Plan xxxxxx not found (91093) - This error happens when trying to get tkgi clusters using TKGi CLI or TKGi Management-Console Clusters tab. Check KB article for resolution details.

VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG)

• Manually Synchronize WCP Roles (91177) - This KB will provide steps to add back the required Roles to vCenter for WCP service to operate normally. Applicable for both VMware vSphere 8.0 with Tanzu and vSphere 7.0 with Tanzu
• Failed to get available workloads: invalid character '<' looking for beginning of value (91084) - Problem is seen when login to TKGs clusters. Check KB article for impacts and resolution.
• How To Inject Custom CA Certificates to a Shared Services Harbor Deployment (91186) - In some instances users may be required to trust a custom certificate authority for the harbor pod components i.e. core, jobservice, registry, and trivy. Check the KB article on the steps.
• How to Scale Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Control Plane and Worker Nodes Vertically (91164) - Vertical scaling may be necessary if you observe that resource utilization on your worker or control plane nodes is consistently high. Check KB article on resolution steps.

Customer Success Story

Automotive Industries - Containers in the Automotive Industry
Tanzu Kubernetes Operations (TKO) and Tanzu Application Platform (TAP)

Learn how an automotive company partnered with Capstone IT and VMware Tanzu to adopt agile practices and a Kubernetes platform that could optimize its IT infrastructure for increased profitability. 

Moving Fast and Cutting Costs in a Billion-Dollar Organization: Containers in the Automotive Industry - Check the blog by Carol P(VMware), Glen Tindal(Capstone IT) and Pre Bhakta(VMware)

For more details on this story, watch this VMware Explore session.

Tanzu Technical Blog Recommendation

nsxbaas - Bassem Rezkalla’s blog

Featuring Bassem Rezkalla’s blog . Bassem Rezkalla, currently a senior virtual cloud networking TAM by VMware based in the Netherlands, he has written detailed blogs on vSphere with Tanzu and various TKG blogs as well.

• Configure TKG Clusters Authentication and RBAC using WS1 Access - This blog details TKG integration with external identity provider - Helpful for TKG clusters on multi cloud strategy.
   

Blogs and Videos

Tanzu Mission Control (TMC)

• Cluster configuration-as-a-code: Reviewing a real world repository and benefits of Tanzu Mission Control's GitOps integration  - Corey D deep dives on how to begin utilizing Flux with their clusters managed by Tanzu Mission Control with a real world repository.
   

Tanzu Application Platform (TAP)
Repeat as it has two weeks’ worth of content !!!

• 3 Key Takeaways from CloudNativeSecurityCon 2023 - Tazin P walks you through on hot topics of CloudNativeSecurityCon, especially Supply chain security topic and how TAP is designed around this outcome
• Introduction To Backstage In The Tanzu Application Platform: Part 2 - The TAP Portal | VMware Tanzu - (Video) Andrei Z describes how the Core features of Backstage enhance (and are enhanced) by the Tanzu Application Platform.
• Backstage and the Tanzu Application Platform: Part 3 - Intro to Backstage’s Object Model -  (Video) Andrei Z describes the object model of Backstage that is primarily used in the Software Catalog plugin and others
• Deploy a Tanzu Application Platform Multicluster Reference Architecture with AWS Quickstart -  (Video) - Aaron M  demonstrates how with a few simple clicks, you can have access to a multi-cluster Tanzu Application Platform environment according to reference architecture

General

• Why Containers and Kubernetes Matter A Natural Evolution - Boskey S’ VMUG session presentation deck on technical overview of containers and Kubernetes, and learn how to get started using VMware Tanzu

Webinars and Events

Tanzu Mission Control (TMC) - Recording if you had missed the session
Mar 2 - Introduction to Tanzu Mission Control - Carol P and Corey D presented this webinar. This session will cover how to adopt a Kubernetes management tool , overview of TMC etc. Check the Recording.

VMware Tanzu
Mar 7 - Deliver Software to Production Quickly and Securely with VMware Tanzu -  This talk examines application security starting from the app code down to the Kubernetes clusters running application containers.

Cloud Native Computing Foundation Meetup - Dallas Mar 9 2023
VMware loves Kubernetes -  Attention all Site Reliability Engineers, DevOps Engineers, Solution Architects, Platform Teams, Product Managers, and Developers! This meetup is a great opportunity to network and gain insights on developer experience and how to accelerate workflow etc with local industry experts and members. Register at the above given link!!!

DevSecOps Tech Talks - Virtual Series (EMEA) - Last session in the series!!!
Join us for a 3-part series to learn how you can enhance the speed and security of your app delivery value stream—from development to production—enabling a true DevSecOps approach for your organization. These sessions are led by lead solution engineers and Tech marketing architects from VMware Tanzu. Register Now

• Mar 9 - Session 3 - Develop a Modern Security Strategy for Modern Apps

Note: Giving away Free copies of the newly released book: DevSecOps in Practice with VMware Tanzu to a few lucky winners!

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.

• Mar 7 - Spring Boot + Google Cloud Java Client Libraries – Now with Support for Native Image Compilation - A walkthrough of native image compilation, and how to make use of it with Google’s Java client libraries, which now support it out of the box.
• Mar 9 - Mastering Testcontainers for Better Integration Tests - In this session, we’ll look deeper at Testcontainers and learn cool things like what’s the best way to debug what happens in a container? How to build more complex topologies of services? And more.
   

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 Las Vegas - Aug 21-24
will keep you posted with info in the forthcoming editions. For now bookmark the date, Stay tuned!!!

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Thanks and Regards,
Aruna Srinivasan (She/Her)

Sr. Digital Content Manager - Tanzu Customer Success

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