Enterprise-ready Kubernetes runtime

Engineered to simplify installation and Day 2 operations, Tanzu Kubernetes Grid packages together key open-source technologies and automation tooling to help you get up and running quickly with a scalable, multicluster Kubernetes environment. It is tightly integrated with vSphere and can be extended to run with consistency across your public cloud and edge environments.

Tanzu Kubernetes Grid is an engineered Kubernetes runtime that includes a CNCF-certified Kubernetes distribution, multicluster lifecycle management (Cluster API), and open-source local and in-cluster services (like Fluentbit for logging, Calico for container networking, and Contour for multicluster ingress). It also includes 24x7 production support from VMware Global Support Services. Choose to add on proactive guidance and support for your broader cloud native ecosystem from the VMware Customer Reliability Engineering team.

Customer Reliability Engineering at VMware is a team of Kubernetes experts who provide support for VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Plus customers. They are former DevOps or Site Reliability Engineers who are experienced with running Kubernetes clusters in production and can be your technical partner to assist you reaching your business goals with Kubernetes.

The team has extensive experience in the cloud native ecosystem and has worked with hundreds of enterprises on Kubernetes deployments that span on-premises, public cloud, and edge environments. Team members regularly contribute code to open-source projects like Kubernetes, Velero, and Harbor, and relay customer feedback to inform the future direction of the VMware Tanzu portfolio.

VMware Tanzu is a family of products and services for modernizing your applications and infrastructure with a common goal: deliver better software to production, continuously. With Tanzu Kubernetes Grid as a consistent Kubernetes runtime, the VMware Tanzu portfolio simplifies multi-cloud operations, while freeing developers to move faster and access the right resources for building the best applications. VMware Tanzu enables development and operations teams to work together in new ways that deliver transformative business results.

Tanzu Kubernetes Grid enables simplified installation of a self-contained, multicluster Kubernetes environment that can run anywhere.

• Deploy a multicluster Kubernetes environment in any region.
  Tanzu Kubernetes Grid enables simplified installation of a self-contained Kubernetes environment wherever you need to run it, so that you can keep application data secure in a single isolated region and enable a flexible security posture at the cluster level.
• Provide Kubernetes as a service on vSphere.
  Tanzu Kubernetes Grid is tightly integrated with VMware Cloud Foundation 4.0 and your data center stack, enabling you to extend your operational workflows and tooling to cloud native infrastructure, while giving developers the ability to access conformant Kubernetes clusters through the native Kubernetes API.
• Run Kubernetes at the edge.
  Tanzu Kubernetes Grid’s open architecture enables lightweight deployments and streamlined multicluster operations in highly distributed edge environments, like retail remote site locations. Choose to add on Kubernetes consulting from Pivotal Labs to build a cloud native architecture for your specific edge environment.
• Manage Kubernetes across teams and clouds.
  Tanzu Kubernetes Grid serves as the embedded runtime for Tanzu Mission Control, making it easier to provide application teams with on-demand access to secure Kubernetes clusters in their public cloud accounts. Your operational burden stays low with a managed and hosted control plane and worker nodes; automated configuration and policy management; and global observability across clusters and workloads.

Yes, VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid is certified by Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®) through the Kubernetes Software Conformance Certification program. Tanzu Kubernetes Grid allows customers to run applications with the confidence that their deployment has passed CNCF test suites and is compliant with the community’s specification.