Tanzu Talk

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Lessons from 5 years of agile transformation at Jaguar Land Rover Aug 15, 2023

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What does a car manufacture need to do to speed up their software delivery cycle? Manufacturing is often finely tuned following lean and other principles, but the software development and delivery process, oddly, is not. In this episode, we talk about he last five years of software transformation at Jaguar Land Rover (JLR).

We discuss the type of software JLR creates for itself, the need to change to transform (driven by quality and speed of delivery), putting CI/CD in place, challenges to change management (mostly about people), and the mismatch between finance and software.

Check out Mike in LinkedIn.

Also, you can watch the video of this episode here, if you like that kind of thing.

The Business Doesn’t Care About Kubernetes as a Kost Center. They Care About This, with Bryan Ross. Aug 04, 2023

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Coté talks with Bryan Ross about fitting Kubernetes (and it's use) into the business strategy.

Check out Bryan's YouTube channel for more Bryan.

A Developer Perspective on Developer Experience, also, COBOL, with Paul Kelly Jul 28, 2023

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"75% of IT and business executives say that their companies’ ability to compete is directly related to their ability to release quality software quickly" reads a recent Forrester Consulting report. If that’s the case, why are so many developer in large organizations have a bad developer experience? Paul Kelly wrote up the case for good DevEx and what it looks like for developers on the VMware Tanzu blog recently. In this episode, Cora and Coté talk with him about the blog. Paul also wrote two books on Visual COBOL so, naturally, we open up by talking about COBOL. Why did we ever need more?

You can watch the original, streamed video if you like that kind of thing.

Links:

A Developer Perspective on Developer Experience, the blog in question.
Paul on CI/CD.
More article from Paul.
Paul’s books: Visual COBOL: A Developer's Guide to Modern COBOL and Visual COBOL: New Application Modernization Tools for the Java Developer.
Paul in LinkedIn.

Manage Kubernetes Clusters Anywhere, From Anywhere with Tanzu Mission Control, with Corey Dinkens Jul 21, 2023

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In this episode, Coté talks with Corey Dinkens about Tanzu Mission Control. The most recent version can now run on-premises, meaning those who can't run it as a public SaaS now can run Tanzu Mission Control where ever they like, on or off the Internet. We also discuss Tanzu Mission Control in general and some other new features.

Learn more about Tanzu Mission Control:

- More about the new release here.
- Corey's quick demo of Tanzu Mission Control.
- More about all of Tanzu Mission Control here.

Platform marketing, advocacy, DevEx, documentation, and Backstage Jul 14, 2023

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So you've built an app platform. And those pesky developers aren’t showing up to use. Or, worse, they grumble about it! Did you remember to tell anyone about it, to convince them to use it? You know: marketing! Also, they'll need to know how to use it. And you know what that means! Documentation.

In this episode, Coté and Ben talk about the basics platform marketing: brand, principles, advocacy, internal conferences, and more. They also discuss the role of Backstage in making platforms better, as well as everyday developer life.

You can also watch the video of this episode, if you prefer that kind of thing.

Be sure to check out VMware’s platforms:

For the Kubernetes fans out there: Tanzu Application Platform.
And for the PaaS fans: The Tanzu Application Service (based on Cloud Foundry).

Changes in the RHEL Streams, and, what is Crossplane? Jun 30, 2023

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This week, Ben and Ed try to help Coté understand what the changes in RHEL open source development mean. We don't figure it out completely, but get close enough. Also, Ed tells us what Crossplane is. Finally, we briefly discuss two new reports from Gartner and Forrester that seek to define the cloud native application stack.

Cloud Foundry Day 2023 Jun 23, 2023

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Right after Cloud Foundry Day 2023, Nick and Coté do a quick re-cap of the day. Taking place in Germany, there were many people from the German community, and elsewhere of course. Nick goes over his little talk which focused on Cloud Foundry usage and metrics. His recent post on The New Stack includes a lot of the same content. Keep an eye on the Cloud Foundry YouTube channel for recordings of all the talks, including Nick’s and Coté’s.

Cloud Foundry: Community, Developer Experience, Kubernetes, and more, with Ram Iyengar Jun 13, 2023

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Cloud Foundry is one of the most mature, most proven platform as a service stacks. And it's open source! Ahead of CF Day on June 21st, 2023 (in person and live), Coté catches up with Ram Iyengar, Chief Evangelist at Cloud Foundry Foundation. They discuss Cloud Foundry's integrations with Kubernetes and related projects, organizations that use and contribute to Cloud Foundry, how Cloud Foundry fits into platform engineering think (and doesn't), the Cloud Foundry Foundation, and how Ram ended up being a developer advocate.

Cloud Foundry Day is on June 21st, 2023 in Heidelberg, Germany. It's in person and online, so you can attend whether you're in person, or cozy at home. It's free to attend online.

Also, check out VMware's Cloud Foundry distro, the Tanzu Application Service (formally Pivotal Cloud Foundry).

What’s a ”Platform Maturity Model”? Jun 07, 2023

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In this episode, Cora and Coté talk with Abby Bangser about the platform maturity model draft that the platform working group at the CNCF has been working on. While the draft is a work in progress, the model the team is developed is extremely useful for thinking about how you build and run your platform team. Check out the interview, and if you’re interested in more, take a look at the draft paper. If you’re really full of beans, you can also contribute.

You can also watch the video of this episode if you prefer.

As Abby mentioned, you can find her by searching for Abby Bangser in most social and web places. She’s @a_bangser in Twitter, @abangser.bsky.social in Bluesky, @abangser in Mastodon, and, of course, in LinkedIn.

Cloud Native Security & Compliance, with David Zendzian Jun 02, 2023

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We talk about getting PCI compliance into Kubernetes, and other security think in the cloud native world. Securing Tanzu Application Service and Tanzu Application Platform. David Zendzian talks with Cora and Coté about what exactly “security” means in the cloud native context. They use his upcoming paper on PCI compliance as an example throughout.

See David in LinkedIn, Twitter, and charming home page.

Watch the video of this interview if you prefer that format.