What is Tanzu Platform?
VMware Tanzu Platform is a pre-integrated set of capabilities and services that enables organizations to develop, operate and optimize mission-critical applications easily and securely. Tanzu Platform helps organizations accelerate delivery of custom and commercial off-the-shelf software (COTS) by providing powerful abstractions, standardized automation and simple commands for application teams, platform engineers and IT operations.
Tanzu Platform Components
Tanzu Platform includes a number of bundled components which provide the following set of capabilities:
- An application development framework with Tanzu Spring
- A collection of ready-made building blocks to add to your applications with Tanzu Application Catalog
- Application data handling with Tanzu Data Services
- Runtimes and pipelines to get your apps into production on the platform of your choice with Tanzu Platform for Cloud Foundry and Tanzu Platform for Kubernetes
- Configuration management and infrastructure automation with Tanzu Salt
Tanzu Platform Benefits
Tanzu Platform helps organizations accelerate delivery of applications by simplifying and integrating the processes and tools used by developers and IT operations. With Tanzu Platform, teams can easily handle the complexities of different application types and runtimes. Whether you deploy applications to Cloud Foundry or Kubernetes, Tanzu Platform provides a set of simple commands to help streamline app development and delivery. Application teams can make use of commands aligned with four basic operations - build, bind, deploy and scale - in order to easily build secure containers, bind self-provisioned application services, push code to production, and scale and update those applications in production. Tanzu Platform simplifies the process of deploying and managing applications across different environments by providing a unified interface and set of tools for all applications.
Once applications have been deployed Tanzu Platform Hub provides visibility into the health and status of those applications as well as their underlying multi-cloud infrastructure by unifying data across the Tanzu Platform services. As an application-centric service, Tanzu Platform Hub automates the application discovery process and then gives you the tools to refine the applications and monitor their status.
Tanzu Platform is supercharged for Spring and is designed to elevate the resilience, security and performance of Spring applications.
Deployment Options
Tanzu Platform can be deployed in your on-premises data center, in an air-gapped environment, on any public cloud, or in a multicloud/hybrid cloud arrangement.
Tanzu Platform is optimized for VMware Cloud Foundation. Together, Tanzu Platform and VMware Cloud Foundation streamline the deployment and management of virtualized infrastructure and app delivery.
Frequently Asked Questions
- What happened to Tanzu Application Service?
- What happened to Tanzu Application Platform?
- What happened to Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations?
- What happened to Tanzu Mission Control?
What happened to Tanzu Application Service?
Tanzu Application Service is now part of Tanzu Platform.
Tanzu Application Service capabilities are now in Tanzu Platform for Cloud Foundry, a Tanzu Platform runtime. Tanzu Platform continues to focus on supporting development and operations teams to accelerate application development and delivery with Cloud Foundry on-prem and across clouds.
What happened to Tanzu Application Platform?
Tanzu Application Platform is now part of Tanzu Platform.
Tanzu Application Platform capabilities are now in Tanzu Platform for Kubernetes, a Tanzu Platform runtime. Tanzu Platform continues to focus on supporting development and operations teams to accelerate application development and delivery on any Kubernetes.
What happened to Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations?
Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations capabilities are now part of Tanzu Platform.
Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations provided the foundation for building a modern container infrastructure at scale across all your clouds through solutions such as Tanzu Mission Control and Tanzu Service Mesh.
Those capabilities are now integrated into Tanzu Platform for Kubernetes, a Tanzu Platform runtime. Tanzu Platform continues to provide a simplified, consistent approach to container deployment and management with tools, automation and data-driven insights.
What happened to Tanzu Mission Control?
Tanzu Mission Control capabilities are now part of Tanzu Platform.
Tanzu Mission Control provided a centralized hub for simplified, multi-cloud, multi-cluster Kubernetes management including cluster lifecycle management, centralized access and policy management, data protection and more. It was also part of the Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations solution and is now part of Tanzu Platform for Kubernetes.
Summary
To respond to market needs, it is essential for organizations to accelerate application delivery. However, without a unified set of capabilities, app delivery can be slow and error prone, introducing risk, stability issues and technical debt.
Tanzu Platform offers an enhanced developer experience with a simple set of developer commands, and shared visibility from app to data to infrastructure. This helps enterprises in increasing agility, stability, security and the delivery time of applications to production.
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Paul Wiggett
Staff Field Engineer at VMware Tanzu
Focused on spreading knowledge and best practices on the majority of the Tanzu portfolio.
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