Centralized Kubernetes management

VMware Tanzu Mission Control is a centralized management platform for consistently operating and securing your Kubernetes infrastructure and modern applications across multiple teams and clouds.

It provides operators with a single control point to give developers the independence they need to drive business forward, while enabling consistent management and operations across environments for increased security and governance.

The key capabilities of Tanzu Mission Control include:

• Cluster lifecycle management: Provision, scale, upgrade and delete Kubernetes clusters in Tanzu Mission Control with the hosted Tanzu Kubernetes Grid runtime.
• Attaching clusters: Attach Kubernetes clusters running in other environments to Tanzu Mission Control.
• Centralized policy management: Apply consistent policies, such as access, networking, and container registry policy to a fleet of clusters and namespaces at scale.
• Observability and diagnostics: Gain global observability of the health of clusters and workloads across clouds.
• Identity and access management: Implement centralized authentication and authorization and federated identity from multiple sources, such as AD, LDAP, and SAML.
• Cluster inspection: Conduct cluster inspection for security and configuration issues.

Tanzu Mission Control benefits both the applications teams and operations teams by

• increasing developer agility and productivity through enabling them with self-service access to Kubernetes clusters;
• enhancing operational efficiency by enabling operators to centrally observe and manage multiple clusters across disparate teams and environments at scale; and
• strengthening security and compliance by allowing operators to consistently apply security policies across environments and do regular cluster inspection for potential risks.

The infrastructure and platform teams use Tanzu Mission Control to enable the developers with self-service access to Kubernetes, and at the same time, centrally operate and manage the Kubernetes clusters and modern apps running on them with efficiency, consistency, and security.

The application teams use Tanzu Mission Control to better manage and maintain applications by easily deploying services and workloads across clusters, better understanding the health of applications and quickly troubleshooting issues.

Yes. Tanzu Mission Control includes Tanzu Kubernetes Grid as a hosted Kubernetes runtime, which lets you provision Tanzu Kubernetes Grid workload clusters directly in Tanzu Mission Control, and also do lifecycle management of these provisioned clusters. Today, Tanzu Mission Control supports provisioning, scaling, upgrading, and deleting Tanzu Kubernetes Grid workload clusters in AWS EC2. Support for other environments is on the roadmap.

You can attach CNCF conformant Kubernetes clusters to Tanzu Mission Control no matter where they are running: on vSphere, in any public clouds, or through other Kubernetes vendors.

Yes. A key design principle of Tanzu Mission Control is extensibility into organizations’ existing workflows and toolkits. Tanzu Mission Control provides this through a documented API, with a CLI and UI for ease of use.

No. Tanzu Mission Control today is a SaaS in the VMware Cloud Services portfolio.

We’ve used open-source technologies to build core functionalities of Tanzu Mission Control. For example, we use Cluster API to build the cluster lifecycle management functionality, and Project Sonobuoy is behind the cluster conformance inspection functionality.

Tanzu Mission Control is sold as an annual subscription (either 1-year and 3-year) on a per-core basis. For details, please contact the VMware Sales team.