Built for platform engineers
Platform teams can offer simple code-to-deployment pipelines and support continuous delivery practices.
VMware Tanzu Platform
Deliver high-value software faster
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Loved by app developers
Get a frictionless developer experience, from onboarding to prod with baked-in patterns and enhancements for Spring.
Trusted by enterprises
Millions of mission critical apps in highly regulated industries run on Tanzu Platform.
Tanzu Platform Total Cost of Ownership savings
ESG1,2 and Forrester Research3 conducted a TCO analysis based on actual customer environments for both Kubernetes and Cloud Foundry. The analysis compares Tanzu Platform versus Do-It-Yourself open source and other commercial application platforms over a 3-year period.
31–90%
Reduction in development time
70–80%
Reduction in management costs
$2M
Average savings on infrastructure
142%
Return on investment
Key Capabilities
App-to-platform visibility with AI-powered insights
Tanzu Platform provides a common control plane and data model as a centralized hub and dashboard for any cloud, platform, tool or persona with contextual app visibility. Gain a shared understanding of code, clusters, containers and underlying infrastructure all in one place.
One-line commands to build, bind, deploy and scale
Simplify the developer experience with an easy-to-use set of golden commands to build, bind, deploy and scale apps. Get built-in security with app accelerators and automated container builds. Take advantage of standard, built-in and 3rd-party services, a single command to push to prod, and no-downtime updates. Scale from zero to infinity with one-line start, stop and update app operations.
using System;
namespace myApp
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
Console.WriteLine("Hello World!");
}
}
}
Automation and security
Auto-replicate app resources across multiple availability targets. Repave every server and application in the datacenter every few hours from a known good state. Repair vulnerable operating systems and application stacks consistently within hours of patch availability. Rotate data center credentials every few minutes or hours to maximize security.
Replicate
Auto-replicate app resources across multiple availability targets
Repave
Repave servers and apps from a known good state every few hours
Repair
Repair CVEs automatically across apps and the platform within hours
Rotate
Rotate credentials to reduce leaked tokens, keys and passwords
Your choice of app runtimes
Tanzu Platform offers runtimes for Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes. Choose an opinionated runtime with streamlined workflows, automation and self-service capabilities or a flexible container orchestrator with portability across environments that offers a wide range of tools and resources.
Integrated functionality for Spring apps
Ensure secure by default posture with enterprise-ready, managed Spring Cloud Services and configurations. Enable SRE/DevOps best practices and observability with Spring-specific instrumentation.
Learn moreCuration of trusted open source software
Craft a private catalog of custom-configured, pre-packaged open source application components that are customized to enterprise requirements, continuously maintained, and privately delivered.
Learn moreSelf-service databases and messaging
Store, process and query data quickly and at scale. Capture data sets of all types, make them available to every workload, and ensure they’re immediately available for use. Choose from PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis or RabbitMQ.
Learn morePowerful ecosystem of brokered services
Leverage your favorite tools across OSS and commercial vendors with service brokers for AWS, GCP and Microsoft Azure. Easily access partner services like GitLab, Apigee and New Relic.
Learn moreSimplified security and compliance enforcement
Manage compliance and vulnerability, with full-service, closed-loop automation and remediation. Employ powerful automation that goes beyond scanning to actually find and fix critical issues.
Tanzu Platform Architecture
Partner with cloud native experts to accelerate software delivery, build next generation apps, modernize legacy apps, and adopt practices that reduce operating costs and risk
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“This is the first time that we’ve been able to take control of our own destiny and actually go after what our customer needs...and making sure that what we’re developing is actually going to have some benefit.”
Erika Green, Director of Technology Product Management, DICK'S Sporting Goods
“We did (porting) very, very quickly. And what I think was probably the most impressive was not just how fast we moved it, but all the stuff that is included out of the box with Tanzu ... is truly amazing. Everything from the observability and all those kinds of things that a lot of people think about the back end are built in, and it was a beautiful experience.”
Tom Eck, Senior Vice President of Digital Transformation, Fiserv
“We selected Tanzu because it was one of the only products that can help us orchestrate multiple stacks. Tanzu solutions provide the platform for my most expert developers to do their best work, from concept to solution rollout, without the need for additional coordination or large teams.”
Tim Hansen, IT Operations Manager, AFCU
“With VMware, we have progressed quickly on [our] journey, and transforming our software has helped us become a more agile business moving in the direction consumers want.”
Vishvas Chitale, CEO & CTO, Chitale Dairy
Use Cases
Develop AI-powered applications
Get a comprehensive set of tools and resources to enhance app development with AI. AI App Accelerators, integration of Spring AI modules for enterprise context, access to LLM choices, utilization of LLM cache, and the support of Tanzu Labs for defining product strategies and crafting AI-powered apps help developers leverage VMware Tanzu's capabilities to drive innovation.
Automate and monitor platform operations
Leveraging automations built into the platform, plus an easy-to-use UI, CLI, and declarative API, organizations can significantly reduce the complexity of operating a production-grade platform. Quickly troubleshoot and resolve issues based on full-stack observability with real-time, end-to-end correlation.
Ensure data security and compliance
Use cloud native security principles to automate compliance tasks. Build automated systems that log every activity. Use an operational toolchain that can rapidly patch and update components as new bits become available. Embrace immutable infrastructure.
Accelerate the delivery of new, secure applications
Unleash your development teams to release new applications at the pace needed by the business. Focus your developers on creating great applications by freeing them up from spending time on packaging, security or learning Kubernetes.
Frequently Asked Questions
What happened to Tanzu Application Service?
Tanzu Application Service is now part of Tanzu Platform.
Tanzu Application Service capabilities are now in Tanzu Platform for Cloud Foundry, a Tanzu Platform runtime. Tanzu Platform continues to focus on supporting development and operations teams to accelerate application development and delivery with Cloud Foundry on-prem and across clouds.
What happened to Tanzu Application Platform?
Tanzu Application Platform is now part of Tanzu Platform.
Tanzu Application Platform capabilities are now in Tanzu Platform for Kubernetes, a Tanzu Platform runtime. Tanzu Platform continues to focus on supporting development and operations teams to accelerate application development and delivery on any Kubernetes.
What happened to Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations?
Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations capabilities are now part of Tanzu Platform.
Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations provided the foundation for building a modern container infrastructure at scale across all your clouds through solutions such as Tanzu Mission Control and Tanzu Service Mesh.
Those capabilities are now integrated into Tanzu Platform for Kubernetes, a Tanzu Platform runtime. Tanzu Platform continues to provide a simplified, consistent approach to container deployment and management with tools, automation and data-driven insights.
What happened to Tanzu Mission Control?
Tanzu Mission Control capabilities are now part of Tanzu Platform.
Tanzu Mission Control provided a centralized hub for simplified, multi-cloud, multi-cluster Kubernetes management including cluster lifecycle management, centralized access and policy management, data protection and more. It was also part of the Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations solution and is now part of Tanzu Platform for Kubernetes.
What is Tanzu Platform?
Tanzu Platform is a pre-integrated set of capabilities and services that enables organizations to develop, operate and optimize mission-critical applications easily and securely. Tanzu Platform helps organizations accelerate delivery of custom and commercial off-the-shelf software (COTS) by providing powerful abstractions, standardized automation and simple commands for application teams, platform engineers and IT operations.
Why should IT customers embrace Tanzu Platform?
By working with a pre-integrated toolset that provides powerful abstractions and standardized automation, software developers, platform engineers and IT operations can realize time and cost savings,and significantly reducing manual, lower-value tasks . Real world customer examples documented by ESG1,2 and Forrester Research3 include: 31-90% reduction in development time, 70-80% reduction in software and infrastructure management costs, $2M average savings on infrastructure, and a 142% return on investment.
When would an organization use Tanzu Platform?
Tanzu Platform is used by hundreds of enterprise organizations and large government agencies to simplify accelerated delivery of new, secure applications, to modernize applications, to automate and monitor platform operations, and to ensure data security and compliance across private, hybrid and public cloud deployments.
Who are the primary users and beneficiaries of Tanzu Platform?
Application teams gain a frictionless experience, from onboarding to code in production, thus speeding delivery of new products and updates. IT Operations reduce toil on their staff while managing cost, performance and security at scale and across clouds. Platform Engineers can provide standardized, secure tool sets, simple code-to-deployment pipelines and support continuous delivery practices. Overall, this helps IT better contribute to the mission of the business.
Where can Tanzu Platform be deployed?
Tanzu Platform can be deployed in your on-premises data center, in an air-gapped environment, on any public cloud, or in a multicloud/hybrid cloud arrangement.
What are the key capabilities of Tanzu Platform?
Tanzu Platform includes capabilities such as app-to-platform visibility with AI-powered insights, one-line commands to build, bind, deploy and scale, deployment to Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes or both, integrated functionality for Spring apps, self-service provisioning of databases and message brokers, cross-cloud management, and curation of trusted open source software.
Does Tanzu Platform integrate with and/or leverage open source tools?
Yes, many components of Tanzu Platform leverage open source software and the innovation driven by the open source community. In addition, Tanzu Platform offers an application catalog of curated trusted open source software for developers to incorporate into their applications.
How does Tanzu Platform integrate with other VMware products?
As a standards-based offering, Tanzu Platform will run on VMs and OCI-compliant containers, including VMware Cloud Foundation and VMware Cloud on a wide variety of public clouds.
What types of professional services are available if I need expert guidance on using Tanzu Platform?
Tanzu Labs consulting services helps organizations assess the biggest opportunities for organizational impact in establishing a cloud native app platform and developing and modernizing their applications. Tanzu Labs can then help organizations build new applications or modernize existing applications. Tanzu Labs can help an organization to deploy a standardized platform for repeatability and security, establish platform engineering capabilities, and transform their data for more impactful use.