VMware Tanzu

Avantages

They are focused on developers and their needs and make clouds easy consumable

Inconvénients

The products are quite expensive but are worth their price. TAP is not that mature as TASbut that will change over time

Avantages

The integration with our existing VMWare products

Inconvénients

The configuration and initial setup is quite hard and requires a lot of manual configuration

Avantages

Not much at the moment, still waiting to get some value out of it

Inconvénients

It breaks all the time, stability is alpha at max, would never recommend it in this stage. There is no balance between new features added (really high) and stability (non-existent).

Avantages

I like the consistency and providing all the required tools by a single vendor.

Inconvénients

Documentation is still a weak point, especially after mergind Pivotal and VMware.

Avantages

VMware's Tanzu was as expected a very polished product bringing together a k8s engine, service mesh and the latest container service interface for all your storage requirements.

Inconvénients

Weighing up the cost against opensource products like open stack and free flavours of k8s and the Tanzu product and VMware support needs some analysis.

Avantages

Feature rich, Developer First mindset, Ease of deployment and releases, Long Term Support versions for more conservative and quarterly releases for more aggressive. Baked in Security.

Inconvénients

Pricing Model for different products varies drastically. Certificate management not very easy. Compatibility with other VMware products like ESX, NSX in addition to some of the Cloud offerings.

Avantages

TAS is an extremely stable product. TAP is taking the best of open source software and providing the glue that makes it more turnkey.

Inconvénients

Their pricing metrics are all wrong. That is to say that the basis for pricing the product is not aligned with the individual components nor with business outcomes. VMware has been very open to soliciting feedback on this and we will see if it improves.

Avantages

Easy deployment process of the vSphere with Tanzu. I don't see any major problems with integration to good known DevOps tools like: Gitlab, Jenkins, Artifactory, Terraform, Vault. New platform customers are happy to use Tanzu environment. Developers don't need to make big changes in CI/CD pipeline to deploy application at TKGs clusters. Tanzu platform is regularly updated which is an advantage. I like few different ways to deploy and configure clusters (for example TMC, shell script, Jenkins pipeline etc)

Inconvénients

Sometimes I see lack of documentation for some configurations, for example: - I don't see any mention in docs to which sites I need to open network traffic to run Lite/Conformance tests in the TMC;- Configuration of the Fluentbit with Elasticsearch is a bit tricky. I spent many hours with support and by myself to configure it properly;- Sometimes support need much time to resolve issues or need to investigate problem with an engineering team

Avantages

The protfolio has a wide range of products which the customer can use to build their ideal platform. Even open source projects are directly available and common use for most of the projects ( like Grafana, Harbor )

Inconvénients

As I said in the "Pro" part of this form, the complexity can also be a contra point as most of the admins just want to run Kubernetes in their cluster with some monitoring and resource capability. Creating small test environments is to complex for them or take to much time.

Avantages

Tanzu is a very good solution for large enterprises with platform teams that can create golden paths for developers. These golden paths provide an easy way for DevOps teams to spend more time on creating value for their products than on boilerplate building blocks like wiring your service with logging, databases, etc.

Inconvénients

I think the Tanzu product suite is only suitable for big enterprises that can afford dedicated platform team for taking care of the Tanzu platform because it is a quite complex setup.

Alternatives envisagées 

Avantages

Una vez configurados los productos proporciona una infraestructura confibale y estable.

Inconvénients

Una de las desventajas que pude percatarme es que para poder realizar una implementacion de los productos es muy compleja y esta muy ligada a la infraestrcutura VMWARE.

Avantages

Tanzu encapsulates Containerized solutions tailored to for programmer needs. The ease of operation and thorough release management gives sense of reliability.

Inconvénients

Autosys, autoscaling, blue- green deployments have been challenging and not consistent to be used by our customers.

Avantages

The most valuable elements from Tanzu are easy to use and easy to integrate.

Inconvénients

Tanzu is slide opinionated that can be taken by some developers as disadvantage

Avantages

Mission Control and the policy engine + cli

Inconvénients

Integration was going well, more labs or testing of the product would be nice

Avantages

As using vSphere, integration with Tanzu was very easy for us.

Inconvénients

As for now, I see no flaws or issues in Tanzu.

Avantages

VMware Tanzu helps to run and manage multiple K8S cluster.

Inconvénients

It is complex and somebody who wants to use it take a trainning by expert who knows it well.

Alternatives envisagées 

Avantages

it supports both public and private clouds. if you have existing VMware V-sphere environment then you can easily deploy this technology. support for Tanzu is also good from from VMware as this is new technology .

Inconvénients

We have purchased only Tanzu license as we have existing setup with licensed product from VMware .But if you have deploy it from scratch then you need to buy all VMware Licenses. that is Costly in pricing .Small organization may get this prices high to setup.It is very complex to deploy , VMware Team helps you deploying the product.