Tanzu What’s New - Sep 22, 2023 Edition

Stay on top of the latest news with our new release information and rich knowledge base articles. Don't worry about missing out on anything with our FOMO-free updates. Discover why GigaOm Radar calls Tanzu Mission Control an outperformer and explore our updated Hands-on-Labs and informative blogs, white-papers, and videos. Plus, don't miss out on upcoming events to learn more about Tanzu. Keep your energy high and your knowledge even higher with Tanzu Application Platform.

- Aruna Srinivasan, Sr. Digital Content Manager, Tanzu Customer Success

“Small beginnings are the launching pad to great endings.”  – Joyce Meyer

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 Operations Manager (OpsMan)
Can’t log into Grafana UI after upgrading to Healthwatch 2.2.7 - After upgrading to Healthwatch 2.2.7, logging into Grafana UI with UAA fails with error "Login Failed user already exists". 

VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs (TAS)
Spring AutoReconfiguration will be no longer installed for Spring Boot 3 applications since JBP v4.62.0 - From v4.62.0, the Java Buildpack will no longer install the Spring AutoReconfiguration (SAR) library for Spring Boot 3 applications. This library was deprecated in May 2022 and performs overwriting of your configured Spring Beans to connect to bound services. 

VMware vSphere with Tanzu
How to collect a diagnostic log bundle from a Tanzu Kubernetes Guest Cluster on vSphere with Tanzu (80949) - This article provides instructions for collecting a diagnostic log bundle from a Tanzu Kubernetes cluster in vSphere 7 with Tanzu. 

VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid(TKG)
How to Modify Antrea’s OVS Installation logic on TKG Windows clusters (94685) - Check the KB to find instructions on how to modify the Antrea Windows installation on TKG to use a custom SSL library in an Internet-Restricted environment. 

TKG 2.3 Standalone Management Cluster and LDAP Result Code 4 \"Size Limit Exceeded\" (94711) - TKG 2.3 Standalone Management Cluster LDAP configuration uses Pinniped for all versions of TKG. Starting in TKG 2.3 Standalone Management Cluster, Pinniped directly interacts with the LDAP server, and Dex as an LDAP shim is no longer used.
 
Prevent unauthenticated user from getting version information from the cluster (94632) - Default cluster role allows unauthenticated user getting cluster version information. Check the KB for the resolution details. 

Time drift issue across hosts and/or nodes can cause unexpected machine deletion and recreation (94675) - One of the symptoms in this case is that a new node VM keeps getting created, powered on, and then powered off relatively quickly and then deleted. Check the KB for the resolution details. 

VMware Tanzu Application Platform (TAP) and Backstage

VMware Tanzu Application Platform is a next-generation Kubernetes-based DevOps platform that helps your developers be more productive. The Tanzu Application Platform GUI is built with the Backstage open-source framework.

Introduction to Backstage in the Tanzu Application Platform: Part 1 - Core Plugins | VMware Tanzu - (Video) In this video, we describe the core features of Backstage and how they could be leveraged in a modern organization.  

What is Backstage? What does Backstage do? What does Backstage not do? Why would you use Backstage? - (Video) Ben educates Coté on what Backstage is. This is the most detailed explanation of the core of Backstage you're likely to see. Check it out. 

Resources to catch up with TAP

●  Read more about Tanzu Application Platform (Product Page Resource)

●  Tanzu Application Platform & Backstage documentation (Documentation)

●  Tanzu Application Platform supply chains in action (Tanzu TechZone Video)

●  Debug & troubleshoot code on Tanzu Application Platform (Tanzu TechZone Debug Video)

●  Train your team with Tanzu Application Platform (Tanzu TechZone Video on Train your Developers)

●  VMware Tanzu Application Platform (HOL-2435-01-MAP) - This lab focuses on platform engineers and how they can provide application teams with self-service access to security-approved environments & tools that provide seamless onboarding, learning and consistency across projects. 

Tanzu Hands-on-Labs - New Labs Updated!!!!
Tanzu team is happy to announce the release of 4 new labs that debuted at VMware Explore Las Vegas to the public Hands-on-Labs site.

●  Containers and Kubernetes 101 on Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations (HOL-2433-01-MAP)

●  VMware Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations (HOL-2433-02-MAP)

●  VMware Tanzu for Developers on Tanzu Application Platform (HOL-2435-01-MAP)

●  Level Up Your Environmental Sustainability with VMware Aria-Lightning Lab (HOL-2401-91-CMP)

VMware Tanzu Mission Control (TMC) - GigaOm Radar named TMC an Outperformer in their Radar Report
VMware Named an Outperformer in 2023 GigaOm Radar Report for GitOps - (Blog)

The GitOps offering evaluated by GigaOm was VMware Tanzu Mission Control (which provides Flux CD and Terraform support) and was rated as exceptional for platform support and developer experience.

“Accessibility is the greatest strength of the VMware product. Making a tool that works for both specialist technical staff and less technical operators is a challenge across GitOps, and VMware is ahead of the curve." - Don MacVittie, research analyst at GigaOm

Watch this on-demand webinar covering how Tanzu Mission Control supports platform teams with infrastructure automation and package management with support for Terraform, GitOps, and Helm. Download the full report.

William Arroyo
About Will William Arroyo, a Solution Engineer at VMware living in Denver and working on all things Cloud Native with a heavy focus on Kubernetes.  Check out this week’s Tanzu topic blog.

Setting static IPs for workloads in TKG - In this article, we will walk through a solution on how to associate different external IPs with specific workloads running in TKG clusters.

General / Containers /K8s
PCI best practices for containers and container orchestration - (White Paper) David Zendzian, shares this Paper, serves as a how-to guide for customers who need to follow vendor best practices outlined by the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Security Standards Council (SSC) 2022 Information Supplement: Guidance for Containers and Container Orchestration when using VMware offerings. 

What is a Service Mesh? And Why Would You Want One? (Video) Coté’s discussion with experts, what a service mesh is and why it exists as a stand-alone thing.

Introduction to Backstage in the Tanzu Application Platform: Part 1 - Core Plugins | VMware Tanzu - (Video) In this video, we describe the core features of Backstage and how they could be leveraged in a modern organization. 

What is Backstage? What does Backstage do? What does Backstage not do? Why would you use Backstage? - (Video) Ben educates Coté on what Backstage is. This is the most detailed explanation of the core of Backstage you're likely to see. Check it out. 

Tanzu Tech Zone Updates
TMC TechZone product page updated with new content / links - (Blog) Check TMC landing page on Tanzu TechZone which has all Updated content and links handy for you.  TMC Product Page, will have all latest, featured contents along with activity path, Hands on Labs and resources. 

VMware Tanzu
Tanzu Fundamental Series is back!!! Yay!!!
Understanding Monoliths and Microservices – VMware Tanzu Fundamentals - (Video) In this episode, we discover the key differences between monoliths and microservices, and how VMware Tanzu revolutionizes modern application development and management.  

VMware Application Catalog (VAC)
Vulnerability Exploitability eXchange Documentation in VMware Application Catalog - (Video) VMware Application Catalog delivers Vulnerability Exploitability eXchange (VEX) documentation to help customers gain actionable visibility into exploitable upstream vulnerabilities, make well-informed security decisions, and avoid spending time and effort trying to fix unexploitable vulnerabilities in their applications.

General / Kubernetes
Sep 28 - Dev Deep Dive: Diving into the World of Kubernetes - Join us for an engaging discussion that will empower you to navigate the app modernization landscape with confidence and take advantage of the immense opportunities that K8s offers. 

VMware Data Solutions - VMware Greenplum
Sep 28 - Introducing VMware Greenplum 7 - the unified platform for BI to AI - Join us for an exclusive webinar as we introduce VMware Greenplum 7, the latest milestone in data warehousing, analytics and AI. Experience the future of data management with enhanced performance, stability, and scalability. 

Oct 3 - Optimizing Data Architecture with Samsung & VMware Greenplum: A Detailed Review - Join our informative webinar for a detailed review of a data architecture, crafted with Samsung's advanced storage solutions and VMware Greenplum's data processing capabilities. We'll walk through the design principles, key architectural elements, and their role in enhancing system performance.

Spring One VMware Explore 2023 Singapore - September 27 – 28, 2023   Count down!!!
Join us at the biggest gathering of Spring enthusiasts, beginners and practitioners who build the apps that make the world run. VMware Explore 2023 Singapore registration includes access to SpringOne. Register Now | Video . Join us on September 27-28 to hear all our amazing guest speakers, including Purnima Padmanabhan! 

VMware Explore Award winning Sessions
VMware Explore 2023 Barcelona - November 6 - 9, 2023
From 12 – 18 of September, VMware Explore 2023 asked the global citizens of Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram to vote for their preferred sessions to be included in the VMware Explore 2023 Barcelona Content Catalog.
The People’s Choice Awards 2023: the Votes are in for Barcelona! - (Blog) This year’s winners of the People’s Choice Awards for Barcelona are the following sessions. View the Catalog of winning Sessions. VMware Explore Barcelona

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