Tanzu Talk

What is a ”Service Mesh”? with Oren Penso

Istio! Service Mesh! Netflix OSS! The technologies and concepts for doing API-driven architectures have existed for longer than most of us have been alive, at least, able to program. In our kubernetes world, a "service mesh" is the all-in concept for managing and doing microservices at the application layer, but it also brings in all sorts of operational security capabilities that can be overlooked at first. In this episode, Ben and Coté talk with Oren Penso about the evolution of the service mesh idea, how it's evolved over recent years, and a little overview of the VMware Tanzu Service Mesh.
 
Links:
Service Mesh for Dummies - free ebook.
VMware Tanzu Service Mesh.
What is eBDP? overview.
Orens in Twitter: @openso.
Check out VMware Explore.
Original live-streamed video.

Command lines and Kernels, Tanzu Application Platform 1.2

Tanzu Talk is back! Your new hosts are Coté, Ed, and Ben. In this episode we cover recent news in the cloud native world, plus highlights from the recent Tanzu Application Release. Plus, light discussion of the political climate in Star Trek versus Star Wars as it represents programming philosophy. Watch the original live-streamed video if you're into that kind of thing.
 
People: @cote, @egrigson, and @benbravo73.
 
Links:
Ed's Most Thrilling News from Last Week™
Azure Developer CLI (azd).
Mirantis acquires amazee.io.
Cilium 1.12 GA.
Tanzu Application Platform 1.2 highlights, video overview, release notes.
Supply chain integrations, like Snyk scanning (beta).
Full IDE lifecycle - create, update, delete (video)

Securing Cloud Applications, the book, with Adib Saikali

Security for developers has always been…complex. When you re-design for and move your application to the cloud, there’s a new set of security concerns to work with. Adib Saikali’s working on a book on this topic, and he discusses it with Coté in this episode. It all starts with the basics of security, and goes from there.
Check out the book and read along as Adib finishes it over at Manning (https://www.manning.com/books/securing-cloud-applications), and, find him in Twitter: @asaikali (https://twitter.com/asaikali).

Outrunning the Bear - a tale of Digital Transformation in Government IT

Governments run on just as much software as the private sector, sometimes it can seem like even more! Government agencies feel the need to run their processes on software like any other organization and are starting to prioritize custom written software. Like everyone else, people in government feel the need to get better at software. In this episode, Jeremiah Sanders and Igor Steinberg talk with Coté about the motivations for getting better at software, common barriers, and a little bit of how people get over those barriers.
Some selected topics discussed:
Getting comfortable with “uncertainty” rather than certainty… accepting “failure,” the need to explore.
People are stymied by the interpretation of the rules, not the rules themselves.
Empowering people to be more cross functional.
What compromises do the people on that small team make? Risks.

Making developer’s lives easier and securing the software supply chain with The VMware Marketplace, with Ramya Sarangarajan

Developers rely on all sorts of 3rd party frameworks, packages, and projects for their applications. Ensuring that those components are available, secure, and fit into an organizations overall enterprise architecture can be a challenge. Ramya Sarangarajan joins us in this episode to cover how the VMware Marketplace helps out.
Check out the VMware Marketplace yourself (https://marketplace.cloud.vmware.com). Also, follow the marketplace in Twitter (https://twitter.com/vmwmarketplace), if you're into that.

Application Aware Platforms, Kubernetes, and Spring, with Ben Hale

Ben Hale talks about one the foundational concepts in the VMware Tanzu Application Platform, application aware platforms.

How to Get Started Securing Your Internal Software Supply Chain

Hear Alex Barbato and John Kjell of the VMware Tanzu team discuss why it's important, but still challenging, to secure your software supply chain. Importantly, they focus on the process of building secure software rather than buying it, and explain how new offerings such as Tanzu Application Platform can help automate some of the tedium for developers, operators, and security teams.
Learn more:
VMware Tanzu (https://tanzu.vmware.com/)
VMware Tanzu Labs (https://tanzu.vmware.com/labs)
Tanzu Application Platform (https://tanzu.vmware.com/application-platform)
Improve Your Cybersecurity with a Secure Software Development Supply Chain (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/blog/improve-your-cybersecurity-secure-software-development-supply-chain)
Implementing DevSecOps in a Federal Agency with VMware Tanzu (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/blog/implementing-devsecops-federal-agency-vmware-tanzu)
Modern Least Privilege and DevSecOps (https://octo.vmware.com/modern-least-privilege-and-devsecops/)
What Is DevSecOps? (https://tanzu.vmware.com/devsecops)
Secure Supply Chain, with Henri van den Bulk (https://www.tanzutalk.com/222)
Follow everyone:
VMware Tanzu (https://twitter.com/VMwareTanzu)
VMware Tanzu Labs (https://twitter.com/VMwareTanzuLabs)
Alex Barbato (https://twitter.com/alexbarbato)
John Kjell (https://twitter.com/J0hnKjell)
Danielle Burrow (https://twitter.com/dburrow11)
Derrick Harris (https://twitter.com/derrickharris)

The Best of Cloud & Culture

This episode features highlights from every episode so far, including a mix of VMware Tanzu Labs experts and clients. Because of the show's focus, the topics here range from building your first product as a startup to scaling Kubernetes inside a large organization, and cover industries including retail, financial services, and health care.

Kubernetes: When You Need It and How to Scale It (from Sept. 14, 2020)

In this episode, which first aired in September 2020, VMware's Josh Rosso explains when organizations and teams should look at adopting Kubernetes (hint: it's much more accessible than even a couple years ago), as well as some of the tricks to doing it successfully. Rosso spends his days helping large organizations scale Kubernetes environments, so he knows from whence he speaks. Since this episode aired, VMware Tanzu has updated its product lineup and roadmap to improve the developer experience on Kubernetes, while continuing its investment in alternative cloud native platforms for situations where Kubernetes is not the ideal choice.
Learn more:
* Announcing VMware Tanzu Application Platform: A Better Developer Experience on any Kubernetes (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/blog/announcing-vmware-tanzu-application-platform)
* Introducing Tanzu Application Platform at SpringOne (https://youtu.be/9kD7wa407K4) [video]
* VMware Tanzu Application Service: The Best Destination for Mission-Critical Business Apps (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/blog/vmware-tanzu-application-service-best-mission-critical-business-apps)
* VMware Tanzu (https://tanzu.vmware.com/)
* VMware Pivotal Labs (https://tanzu.vmware.com/labs)
* The Podlets (https://thepodlets.io/) [podcast]
* TGIK (https://tgik.io/) [podcast]
Follow everyone on Twitter:
* VMware Tanzu (https://twitter.com/VMwareTanzu)
* VMware Pivotal Labs (https://twitter.com/pivotallabs)
* Josh Rosso (https://twitter.com/joshrosso)
* Danielle Burrow (https://twitter.com/DBurrow11)
* Derrick Harris (https://twitter.com/derrickharris/)

Reinventing Finance with Customer Experience, with Henri van den Bulk

Among other things, the banking world is looking for new revenue and ways to retain customers. Focusing on customer experience is one way to get there. Shifting to a product-centric way of thinking results in dreaming up new types of “features” and even products to offer existing customers and help retain them - maybe even garnering new customers above the humming churn rate. In this episode, Coté talks with Henri van den Bulk about these drivers and some examples of that product-centric thinking in action.
Find Henri in Twitter and LinkedIn:
https://twitter.com/hmvandenb
https://www.linkedin.com/in/hvandenbulk/