New Tanzu Editions

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Announcement for the new Tanzu Editions is now available.

In summary, Tanzu Advanced and Enterprise would be for bigger deployment where multiple solutions with VMware services involvement where likely you would have a reference architecture been build and supported by VMware.

For the Tanzu Basic and Standard, this is more for the vSphere environment and a replacement of the previous only available to VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Add-on for vSphere with Kubernetes which was then renamed to vSphere with Tanzu.

Below is extracted from the two PDF document from the solution brief. However, the solution brief didn't point out some conditions which I have marked with "*". Update 06 Oct: The PDF has been updated with "*"

What is it you might ask? It is not drastic, but it is possible only with NSX-T and not without. For vSphere Pod service and Register Service, which is embedded in vSphere 7 and part of supervisor cluster, this will require NSX. Network service provision with NSX for microsegmentation, layer 7, NSX load balancing will not be available in Tanzu Basic.

So, for naked vSphere 7 customer, they can enable the user of vSphere with Tanzu via Tanzu Basic which will allow to consume the guest cluster. vDS will be used by all the nodes for communication while the container networking will be using Antrea by default. Naked vSphere users can also purchase NSX and utilize Tanzu Basic or Standard and utilize the supervisor cluster. The Tanzu Standard will provide you with support for BYO node image and ingress controller and other Tanzu SaaS offering such as Tanzu Mission Control.

For VCF customer, it is easier to start with Tanzu Standard which will incorporate the use of the capabilities since VCF will contain NSX which will allow the use of Registry, Network and Pod Service. This is because to utilize supervisor cluster functionality you will need NSX which is already included in VCF.

Tanzu Basic pdf

COMPONENTS

TANZU BASIC

vSphere 7-specific capabilities

vSphere Pod service*, Storage service, Network service*, Registry service*

Kubernetes cluster lifecycle management

Cluster API

Image registry

Harbor

Container networking

Antrea/Calico

Load balancing

VMware Load Balancer Services for Kubernetes

Ingress controller

NIL

Observability

·       Fluent Bit & Fluentd

Operating System

Photon OS

SaaS Global Management

 

·       NIL

 

 

 Tanzu Standard pdf

COMPONENTS

TANZU STANDARD

vSphere 7-specific capabilities

vSphere Pod service, Storage service, Network service, Registry service

Kubernetes cluster lifecycle management

Cluster API

Image registry

Harbor

Container networking

Antrea/Calico

Load balancing

VMware Load Balancer Services for Kubernetes

Ingress controller

Contour

Observability

·       Fluent Bit & Fluentd

·       Prometheus and Grafana for platform monitoring

Operating System

Photon OS and Bring-your-own node image

SaaS Global Management

 

·       Lifecycle management of provisioned clusters

·       Attach and manage any conformant Kubernetes cluster

·       Cluster and workload health observability

·       Centralized access and security policy management

·       Backup and restore clusters and namespaces

·       Backup scheduling

·       Cluster conformance inspections

·       System events and audit logs

·       Integration with Tanzu Observability and/or Tanzu Service Mesh

 

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