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As we discussed in the previous section, organizations may choose containers, like those created and managed with K8s solutions, to help modernize their applications because of the flexibility these solutions offer. Developers and IT admins can select the right application framework, languages, monitoring and logging tools, and other necessary resources for their applications.
However, app modernization is more than just moving to containers. It is an ongoing, multi-team process that encompasses orchestration, security, and management. An app modernization effort should preferably use tools that your staff already know, so you can lower training costs. For organizations that already use VMware software and tools, the learning curve could be minimal. A VMware Tanzu K8s solution can deliver orchestration and manageability to the containerization effort using vSphere, a virtualization platform with over a decade of market exposure. It lets you manage clusters of containers, which can help developers and IT teams scale and simplify container creation to help meet those modernization challenges on software and hardware platforms that are already familiar to them.
IT staff can install VMware Tanzu on existing on- premises servers, allowing DevOps teams to modernize applications with K8s on-premises, using future-ready resources before deploying K8s containers and applications to a production cloud. Without Tanzu, IT teams might need specialized Linux expertise to install K8s and configure nodes manually.
According to the VMware Tanzu solution brief, “VMware Tanzu addresses the Day 1 and Day 2 Kubernetes operations burden with a complete, easy- to-upgrade Kubernetes runtime with pre-integrated and validated components. This enables you to run the same K8s across data center, public cloud and edge for a consistent, secure experience for all development teams.”1
To learn more about how VMware Tanzu streamlines Kubernetes management, visit https://tanzu.vmware.com/tanzu.
1 VMware, “VMware Tanzu solution brief,” accessed October 15, 2020, https://d1fto35gcfffzn.cloudfront.net/tanzu/VMware-Tanzu-Solution-Brief-0920.pdf.