Tanzu What’s New - May 19, 2023 Edition

“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.” - Helen Keller

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

VMware Tanzu Operations Manager (OpsMan)
Incorrect golang package path in compile.env causes few errands to fail - When a release is uploaded, the BOSH Director attempts to match those packages in the release to "similar" packages that have been previously uploaded. It does this currently by solely looking at the package fingerprint. This KB article gives you more information on the issue and resolution

Apply changes fails due to cpi error: No space left on device - VM creation during upgrade or deployments fails with vSphere CPI error: Check KB article for details and fix information.

Unable to Upload Jammy Stemcells in OpsMan Versions Prior to 2.10.33 - Core issue is that OpsMan versions prior to 2.10.33 do not support the use of Jammy stemcells. 

Starting authentication gets hung when enabling LDAP authentication for OpsManager 3.0.x - Users may find starting authentication system get stuck in the following scenarios when logging into Ops Manager web console for version 3.0.x.

VMware Tanzu Application Services for VM (TAS)
Garden and garden-healthchecker jobs fail to start up in time when updating Diego Cells - On garden-runc v1.22.6 through v1.28.0, garden restarts with a high container count could result in BOSH deploys failing due to a race condition between garden, bpm, monit, and garden-healthchecker. 

routing-release 0.262.0 prunes all routes to an application, resulting in 503 errors - This is caused by a change introduced in routing-release 0.262.0 to enable Gorouter to retry more types of idempotent requests to failed backends. Check KB article for more details on resolution.

VMware SQL with MySQL for Tanzu Application Service
MySQL for TAS - ERROR 1227 (42000): Access denied - This KB article addresses the issue of running into a "1227 (42000): Access Denied" error when trying to run commands on a MySQL service instance from a Jumpbox (or Ops Man VM). 

VMware vSphere 7.0 with Tanzu
containerd failing with error messages "Failed to run CRI service" and "failed to recover state" (92231) - There is corrupt data in the containerd directory, and this is preventing the CRS service from starting Check the KB article for workaround and scenarios information.

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Fiserv Transforms Developer Studio Delivery with VMware Tanzu
A leader in payments and technology solutions for merchants and financial services institutions, Fiserv turned to VMware, a leader in addressing multi-cloud challenges. By running a POC with VMware Tanzu Application Platform, Fiserv has kept its Developer Studio solution as a powerful customer resource and remained cloud agnostic. Check this Video , where Ganesh Venkatraman, CTO Digital transformation at Fiserv shares the success story. He says, TAP is secure, scalable and workloads can be deployed across different clouds quickly is huge.
 

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. We have featured Chris’s blog earlier weekly updates as well.  Last week also we featured blog on Creating Tanzu Kubernetes cluster in vSphere 8 with Tanzu. Check out this week’s Tanzu topic blog.

Installing Packages to a TKGS cluster in vSphere 8 with Tanzu - Packages provide extra functionality to the TKGS cluster. There are many kinds of packages that can be installed for different purposes. Chris walks through installing most of them in this blog in detail.

viktorious.nl - All things cloud-native
Viktor van den Berg, Senior Solution Engineer Application Platforms Tanzu at VMware. We have featured this blog already in our earlier updates. Check the latest blog on TAP. 

Update to my TAP installation scripts: TAP 1.5 supported + TLS + Scanning + Testing  - Viktor maintaining a set of scripts to deploy Tanzu Application Platform to (test) environment. With the recent release of TAP 1.5, it’s time again to update and re-evaluate scripts. Check this blog on detailed steps.

Tanzu Kubernetes Operations (TKO)
Boost App Resiliency and Performance with Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations on Dell VxRail - (Blog) This post delves into some of the problems of cloud native architecture, as well as how Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations on Dell VxRail helps overcome these obstacles.  Reference Architecture 

Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations GSLB - (Video) Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations includes NSX Advanced Load Balancer with a feature that provides DNS namespace for applications. Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) is balancing application load across multiple instances of the application regardless of their location. 

VMware Tanzu Service Mesh (TSM)
Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations TSM - (Video) VMware Tanzu Service Mesh is an enterprise-class service mesh solution that provides reliable control and security for microservices, end users, API and data  across multi-cloud environments. 

Kubernetes / General Application Modernization
Tools Make the Difference for Kubernetes Success (Blog) Michael Cote dives into various types of tools and its values.

VMware Tanzu Application Platform (TAP)
May 23 - What’s New with VMware Tanzu Application Platform - Miles Gray will lead this interactive webinar, will dive into the exciting new features of VMware Tanzu Application Platform that help elevate your developer and platform engineering capabilities to the next level.  May 25 EMEA session

Golden Path to SpringOne Join in Application Developers !!!
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May 25 - Auto-Remediating Code at Scale with Lossless Semantic Tree and Generative AI - In this talk, we’ll address the need for automation—both rules-based and AI-driven—to remediate the unwieldy, assembled codebase.

May 25 - Why Spring Belongs in Your Data Stream (from Edge to Multi-Cloud) - This talk will show how to incorporate it in streaming applications as part of a FLiP-Spring application. Pulsar, Flink, Spark, NiFi, and Spring work together very well to build fast, safe streaming applications to deploy in bare metal, VMs, containers, pods, VMware Tanzu, or any cloud.

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