Lets understand a evolution of VMware Tanzu?

Product Timeline:

• The original Essential PKS arrived from a rebranding of the Heptio Kubernetes Service (HKS) that came with the VMware acquisition of Heptio at the end of 2018.
• Enterprise PKS (formerly known as the Pivotal Container Service)
• Enterprise PKS (formerly known as the Pivotal Container Service)

Summary:

Heptio Kubernetes Service (HKS) -> Essential PKS -> VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid standalone
Pivotal Container Service -> Enterprise PKS -> VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated (TKGI) Edition

Enterprise PKS (formerly known as the Pivotal Container Service). Its new name in the Tanzu portfolio is VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition. The most recent release is version 1.7.

— Don Quixote

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What is VMware Tanzu or Tanzu Portfolio?

VMware Tanzu allows you to containerize your workloads to run in the cloud, while increasing security and manageability.

VMware Tanzu offers three editions today that can simplify your Kubernetes adoption and lay the foundation for modern applications. Choose the one that best suits your needs

VMware Tanzu Basic Edition

VMware Tanzu Basic Edition includes everything an enterprise needs to make best use of Kubernetes as part of its vSphere-based infrastructure. With Tanzu Basic Edition you can embed Kubernetes in vSphere 7 or deploy your own management cluster on vSphere 6.7U3 or vSphere 7.

VMware Tanzu Standard Edition

VMware Tanzu Standard Edition is for organizations that want to operate a Kubernetes-based container solution across multiple clouds. Whereas Tanzu Basic Edition is intrinsically tied to vSphere, Tanzu Standard Edition provides you the flexibility to extend a consistent, open source-aligned Kubernetes distribution across on-premises, public clouds. Tanzu Standard Edition allows you to operate one distribution anywhere and gain consistent management over all your Kubernetes clusters with global observability, common configuration control and centralized data protection across any environment.

VMware Tanzu Advanced Edition

VMware Tanzu Advanced Edition builds on Tanzu Standard Edition to simplify and secure the container life cycle, enabling teams to accelerate the delivery of modern apps at scale across clouds. It adds a comprehensive global control plane with observability and service mesh; advanced load balancing; and developer enablement in terms of frameworks, data services, an image catalog, and automated build.
So, VMware Tanzu Standard Edition includes all of the components of VMware Tanzu Basic Edition, and VMware Tanzu Advanced includes all of the components of VMware Tanzu Standard Edition and Tanzu Basic Edition.

List of Components in VMware Tanzu

VMware Tanzu Application Catalog

VMware Tanzu Application Catalog is a service that combines content and tools to allow IT organizations to consume open source and commercial application customized to their specific requirements, across multiple platforms. VMware Tanzu Application Catalog is a Software as a Service (SaaS) service that provides a curated catalog of custom-configured (to enterprise requirements) open source applications that are continuously maintained and privately delivered. Tanzu Application Catalog enables customers to drive productivity enhancements through seamlessly balancing developer flexibility and IT governance.

VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid

VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid, informally known as TKG, is a multi-cloud Kubernetes footprint that you can run both on-premises in vSphere and in the public cloud on Amazon EC2 and Microsoft Azure. In addition to Kubernetes binaries that are tested, signed, and supported by VMware, Tanzu Kubernetes Grid includes signed and supported versions of open source applications to provide the registry, networking, monitoring, authentication, ingress control, and logging services that a production Kubernetes environment requires.

VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition

VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition, informally known as TKGI, is a Kubernetes-based container solution that is integrated with Cloud Foundry BOSH and Ops Manager. Formerly known as VMware Enterprise PKS, Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition allows you to provision, operate, and manage Kubernetes clusters. It provides advanced networking, a private container registry, and lifecycle management, so that you can run and manage containers at scale on private and public clouds.

VMware Tanzu Mission Control

VMware Tanzu Mission Control, informally known as TMC, provides a hosted Tanzu Kubernetes Grid implementation as a managed service for public cloud environments. Tanzu Mission Control is available through VMware Cloud services. Tanzu Mission Control provides a centralized management platform for consistently operating and securing your Kubernetes infrastructure and modern applications across multiple teams and clouds. If you are using the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid service that Tanzu Mission Control provides

VMware Tanzu Observability

Tanzu Observability services include curated dashboards for the open-source Prometheus and Grafana solutions and the sophisticated Tanzu Observability by Wavefront product.

• Monitoring and Logging with Prometheus, Grafana, and Fluent-Bit
• Monitoring and Alerting with Healthwatch
• Full-featured SaaS Observability with Tanzu Observability by Wavefront

VMware Tanzu Service Mesh

VMware Tanzu™ Service Mesh™, built on VMware NSX®, is VMware’s enterprise-class service mesh solution that provides consistent control and security for microservices, end users, and data—across all your clusters and clouds—in the most demanding multicluster and multicloud environments.

VMware Tanzu Toolkit for Kubernetes

VMware Tanzu™ Toolkit for Kubernetes is a collection of open source projects designed to enhance the use of VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid for cloud native applications. Tanzu Kubernetes Grid is a Kubernetes runtime that helps you install and run a production grade, multi-cluster Kubernetes environment on the infrastructure of your choice. Tanzu Toolkit enables the best use of Tanzu Kubernetes Grid, amplifying the developer and ops experience by leveraging open source projects.

• Harbor – Harbor is an open source registry that secures artifacts with policies and role-based access control, ensures that images are scanned and free from vulnerabilities, and signs images as trusted. As a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Graduated project, Harbor delivers compliance, performance, and interoperability to help you consistently and securely manage artifacts across cloud native compute platforms like Kubernetes and Docker.
• Velero – Velero is an open source tool to safely backup and restore, perform disaster recovery, and migrate Kubernetes cluster resources and persistent volumes.
• Contour – Contour is an open source Kubernetes ingress controller providing a control plane for the Envoy edge and service proxy.​ A CNCF Incubating project, Contour supports dynamic configuration updates and multi-team ingress delegation out of the box while maintaining a lightweight profile.
• Sonobuoy – Sonobuoy is an inspection and diagnostic tool that makes it easier to understand the state of a Kubernetes cluster by running a choice of configuration tests in an accessible and non-destructive manner. Sonobuoy is also being used by CNCF as the underlying technology to support their vendor certification program.

Tanzu Toolkit provides advisory—or best effort—guidance on Prometheus, Grafana, and Alertmanager for use with Tanzu Kubernetes Grid. Installation, upgrade, initial tooling configuration, and bug fixes are beyond the current scope of VMware’s advisory support.

VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Service

Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Service, informally known as TKGS, lets you create and operate Tanzu Kubernetes clusters natively in vSphere with Tanzu. You use the Kubernetes CLI to invoke the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Service and provision and manage Tanzu Kubernetes clusters. The Kubernetes clusters provisioned by the service are fully conformant, so you can deploy all types of Kubernetes workloads you would expect. vSphere with Tanzu leverages many reliable vSphere features to improve the Kubernetes experience, including vCenter SSO, the Content Library for Kubernetes software distributions, vSphere networking, vSphere storage, vSphere HA and DRS, and vSphere security.

Reference

• https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Tanzu/index.html
• https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Tanzu-Observability/index.html
• https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Tanzu-Service-Mesh/index.html
• https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Tanzu-Application-Catalog/services/tac-docs/GUID-concepts-introduction-to-tac.html

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