Overview

VMware Tanzu Platform Runtimes provide a comprehensive solution for modern application development, deployment, and management. By offering container-based runtime environments, Tanzu Platform simplifies the complexities associated with building and running applications in cloud-native architectures. This approach enables developers to focus on writing code, while the platform handles the underlying infrastructure, ensuring scalability, security, and operational efficiency.

Features and Capabilities

• Container-Based Runtime Environment: Facilitates the management and visibility of applications, streamlining development and deployment processes.
• Support for Multiple Runtimes: Offers runtimes for both Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes, allowing organizations to choose the environment that best fits their needs.
• Streamlined Workflows: Provides opinionated runtimes with automated workflows and self-service capabilities, enhancing developer productivity.
• Application-Aware Infrastructure: Dynamically provisions infrastructure resources based on application requirements and changing conditions.
• Centralized Management: Delivers a common control plane and data model with a centralized hub and dashboard, offering contextual visibility across applications, clouds, runtimes, and tools.
• Enhanced Security: Includes a central container build system to enforce security scanning and Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) reporting.
• Extensive Application Ecosystem: Provides access to over 200 open-source application components through a customizable catalog, facilitating rapid development and deployment.
• Developer Self-Service: Empowers developers with self-service access to resources and cloud-native application patterns, reducing dependencies on operations teams.
• Automated Lifecycle Management: Automates the application lifecycle, including building code into containers, establishing pipelines, and deploying applications in any environment, all while adhering to pre-established reliability, security, and compliance guardrails.
• Seamless Integration: Integrates with existing visibility and management tools, ensuring a cohesive and efficient operational environment.