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VMware Tanzu® for Kubernetes

Operations
Foundation for a modern, multi-cloud container infrastructure

Overview
CUSTOMER PAINPOINTS Digital transformation is fueling the adoption of cloud computing as well as cloud native
• Choosing amongst the scores of technologies such as containers. As container adoption goes mainstream, Kubernetes
Kubernetes-related offerings can be beat the competition and became the de facto container orchestrator. It is being used
daunting and fraught with risk across all industries today to help automate the deployment, management, and scaling of
containerized applications.

• Provisioning and managing a Along with the fast Kubernetes adoption, enterprises are quickly moving to a multi-cloud
distributed container infrastructure at reality due to a variety of reasons such as avoiding vendor lock in, minimizing risks, saving
scale is complex and prone to cost, customizing solutions, and meeting the exact needs of development teams asking
inconsistencies and inefficiencies for choices of cloud providers. We are seeing more and more enterprises today running
Kubernetes across multiple clouds and/or across multiple vendors or distributions.

• Security and traffic management for

With this multi-cloud reality, building, operating, and managing a Kubernetes-based
distributed applications that reside in
container infrastructure become even more challenging. How to choose from numerous
multi-cloud environments require
Kubernetes-related open-source technologies and/or commercial offerings? How to
capabilities beyond that of
simplify day 1 deployment and get the Kubernetes API to your developers in days, weeks,
traditional, perimeter-based
not months? How to increase the efficiency of day 2 operations by automating tasks such
approaches
as upgrading, patching, and scaling? How to properly connect and monitor your entire
Kubernetes footprint across clouds and across distributions? Last but not the least, how
• Monitoring a complex and abstracted to make sure your Kubernetes infrastructure and applications are secure and compliant?
stack like Kubernetes across clouds
and distributions is difficult VMware Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations
VMware Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations is the foundation for building a modern
container infrastructure at scale across all your clouds. It simplifies container management
with tools, automation, and data-driven insights that boost developer productivity, secure
applications and data, and optimize infrastructure performance across all your clouds.

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TANZU ACTIVATION SERVICES Key Capabilities of Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations

VMware Tanzu® Activation Services™ A consistent Kubernetes runtime across on-premises, public clouds and at the edge.
are professional services designed to Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations enables IT teams to deploy an enterprise-ready
get you up and running quickly with Kubernetes runtime, which packages together key open-source technologies and
VMware Tanzu™ for Kubernetes automation tooling to help them get up and running quickly with a scalable, multi-cluster
Operations. Our team of expert Kubernetes environment. It is natively integrated with vSphere and can also be extended
engineers will quickly deploy, integrate to run with consistency across your public clouds and edge environments.
and configure Tanzu for Kubernetes
A centralized hub for simplified, multi-cloud, multi-cluster Kubernetes management. With
Operations in your environment, and
Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations, platform operators can leverage a centralized
migrate one pre-agreed upon
management hub to simplify Kubernetes management, reducing complexity and
application onto your new platform.
operational toil of managing multiple clusters across clouds and teams. For example,
We work with you to build a platform
platform operators can centrally manage the lifecycle of the clusters, easily apply
that aligns with infrastructure and app
consistent policies such as security and network policies across clusters and clouds, and
needs while optimizing your platform
also do cluster backup and restore via the platform.
operating costs.
Full-stack observability for Kubernetes infrastructure and application across clouds.
Tanzu Activation Services are designed
Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations enables enterprises to monitor, observe, and analyze
to accelerate the establishment of your
application and infrastructure health and performance at massive scale, providing the first
platform capabilities.
pane-of-glass analytics across multi-clouds and multi-stack. SREs and DevOps teams can
• Quickly deploy, integrate and quickly identify and troubleshoot performance issues, shortening mean time to repair.
configure Tanzu for Kubernetes Operators can correlate and drill down across applications running on Kubernetes, and
Operations in your environment. deep dive into any incident using distributed tracing across distributed environments.
• Enable developer self-service Sophisticated AI-driven performance analytics and trends predictions proactively alert
access to the right infrastructure anomalies across all environments.
abstractions and app building
Advanced, end-to-end connectivity, security, and insights for modern applications —
blocks
across application end-users, microservices, APIs, and data. Tanzu for Kubernetes
• Automate and monitor cloud
Operations provides service mesh capabilities across single and multiple clusters, clouds,
platform operations
and data centers. Teams can build application resiliency and data security policies and
• Enforce networking, security, and bake security testing into their existing DevOps toolchain, ensuring application high
compliance requirements availability, performance and secure transactions. In addition to rich application
• Find, prioritize and migrate apps performance metrics and security visibility, it offers application and data-level security
to the new platform for maximum policies — for example, attribute-based access control (ABAC) policies, end-to-end
benefit encryption policies, and API segmentation, parameter validation and threat protection
policies.

Enterprise-grade, integrated load balancing, ingress and container networking. With

Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations, platform and IT operators can easily implement
container ingress services, including L4-L7 local and global server load balancing (GSLB),
web application firewall (WAF), DNS, and IPAM in a single platform across any cloud. In
addition, it has built-in container networking leveraging Antrea, making it easy for
platform operators to apply and change network policies to run applications without the
risk of disruptions and with guaranteed security enforcement into each cluster.

Application modernization tooling to aid in discovery, analysis, and transformation of

legacy applications in VMs to containers. Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations comes with
application modernization tools which can be used to scan and introspect the entire
vSphere or VMware Cloud-based data center to discover application components and
dependencies. It leverages vRealize Network Insight flows to automatically generate
application topologies with an end-to-end view, and creates artifacts such as Docker files,
OCI-compliant container images, and Kubernetes YAML files, simplifying application
modernization efforts.

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WHAT DOES TANZU FOR Benefits of Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations

KUBERNETES OPERATIONS
Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations provides the foundation for a modern, multi-cloud
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container infrastructure anchored on three action pillars: simplify, secure, and optimize.
• A consistent Kubernetes runtime
across on-premises, public clouds, Simplify
and edge environments Simplify choice. The busy Kubernetes open source ecosystem and the crowded
• A centralized multi-cloud, multi- Kubernetes marketplace make it daunting and risky for enterprises to choose the best
cluster management hub solution amongst numerous Kubernetes-related offerings out there. Tanzu for Kubernetes
• Full stack, multi-cloud Operations simplifies the process with an expertly curated offering of the core elements
observability needed to stand up and operate a modern, enterprise-grade container infrastructure. Our
• End to end connectivity with zero- complete solution is backed by unrivaled global support, thereby eliminating not only the
trust security and data encryption confusion and finger pointing of multiple support touch points but also the risk of making
• Enterprise grade integrated load the wrong core element choices.
balancing, ingress and container
networking Simplify operations. Provisioning and managing a distributed container infrastructure can
• Application modernization tooling be complexity-laden, especially as the number of containers and clusters scale across
to aid in containerizing legacy multiple clouds. Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations radically simplifies this by providing a
apps consistent Kubernetes runtime across on-premises, public cloud, and edge environments
and managing it all through a central SaaS management hub that is always up-to-date
and API-extensible to take advantage of the latest VMware and third-party technical
innovations.

Secure

As applications and data are increasingly distributed across multiple clouds, traditional
perimeter-based security is not able to deliver the fine-grain security and control needed
to protect microservices, APIs, and data.

Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations meets the need with line-of-sight application visibility,
API threat detection and protection, end-to-end encryption, and control of how
applications share data with one another across multiple clouds, all backed by a full audit
history to provide continuous proof of compliance.

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Optimize

The portability, flexibility, and multi-cloud capabilities of containers and Kubernetes have
fueled their brisk enterprise adoption, but with it have come new challenges; namely, how
to ensure that applications and infrastructure are operating at peak performance.

Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations provides a real-time, unified view into the infrastructure,
operating systems, and applications of single and multi-cloud environments with
advanced tools and automation that identify bottlenecks, accelerate root-cause analysis,
and render the data-driven, actionable insights vital for continuous application and
infrastructure optimization.

Summary

Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations provides enterprises with the foundation for building,
operating, and managing a modern, Kubernetes-based container infrastructure across

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multi-cloud. It simplifies provisioning and management of Kubernetes with tools,

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