VMware Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations (TKO) simplifies and secures the container lifecycle to speed the delivery of modern apps at scale and addresses the operational requirements for security, visibility, and manageability across clouds. It provides a simplified, consistent approach to container deployment, scaling, and management with tools, automation, and data-driven insights. The following solutions are included with Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations: Tanzu Standard Runtime, including: Tanzu Kubernetes Grid - Engineered solution providing simplified installation, automated multi-cluster lifecycle, and platform services that can be deployed across local, edge, and across clouds. Harbor Image Registry - Provides a centralized location to push, pull, store, and scan container images used in Kubernetes workloads. It also supports storing many other artifacts such as helm charts and includes enterprise grade features such as RBAC, retention policies, automated garbage clean up, and docker hub proxying among many other things. Tanzu Mission Control - Provides a global view of Kubernetes clusters, allowing centralized policy of access, security, management, and configuration, across deployed and attached clusters, available as SaaS. Full-stack observability for both Kubernetes infrastructure and application, powered by Aria Operations for Apps, available as SaaS Advanced, end-to-end connectivity, security, and insights for modern applications - across application end-users, microservices, APIs, and data - powered by Tanzu Service Mesh, available as SaaS Enterprise grade integrated Load Balancing and Ingress, powered by NSX Advanced Load Balancer (available as SaaS), as well as container networking powered by VMware Container Networking with Antrea. In this lab, you will have the opportunity to explore the some of the key parts of TKO: Tanzu Kubernetes Grid - Included in VMware vSphere 8, TKG 2.0 enables consistent deployment and lifecycle of Kubernetes across clouds. Harbor Image Registry - Provides a centralized location to push, pull, store, and scan container images used in Kubernetes workloads. Tanzu Mission Control - Provides a global view of Kubernetes clusters, and allows for centralized policy management across all deployed and attached clusters. Aria Operations for Apps - Full-stack observability for both Kubernetes infrastructure and application NSX Advanced Load Balancer (formerly Avi Networks) - Provides enterprise grade integrated Load Balancing and Ingress Tanzu Service Mesh - End-to-end operational visibility, control, and security, for distributed transactions- across end-users, applications, and data - on any platform or cloud, including Kubernetes, VMs, and serverless.

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