Month: May 2020

Deploying Tanzu Application Service for Kubernetes on Kind

Tanzu Application Service for Kubernetes brings the development experience of Tanzu Application Service (formerly called Pivotal Application Service, and before that Pivotal CloudFoundry) to the Kubernetes container orchestrator. It includes the most important features of Tanzu Application Service, such as cf push for buildpack-based apps, while running both the system components and the application instances as Kubernetes workloads.

TAS for Kubernetes is something I have been trying to test for a while. It moved from alpha version to beta on the 14th of April, so it has been open for testing for more than a month now.

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CI/CD Pipeline with Jenkins running on Kubernetes and Deploying to Kubernetes.

This week I had a call with a customer to discuss about how we can help them with their DevOps initiatives. I introduced to them the concepts of microservices, containers and Kubernetes, but at the end they where still struggling to understand how all the different technologies fit together.

I proposed to do a workshop and show them the whole process of placing an app in a container and running it in Kubernetes. But hey, that’s not they way the should be doing it a the end right? The whole idea of DevOps is to have an automated pipeline: to go from code, to container, to production automatically, using the concept of CI/CD – Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment.

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