Outcome-driven approach

The Tanzu team at VMware came into existence just as Kubernetes was hitting its stride in the enterprise. VMware was poised for leadership in the space with the acquisition of Heptio, which brought deep Kubernetes knowledge and two of the original creators. It also acquired a well-honed philosophy of software delivery through the acquisition of Pivotal. The Tanzu team continues to deliver a thoughtful and nuanced Kubernetes-based application platform focused on meaningful business outcomes that were important to customers.

There is no doubt that many mature Tanzu customers were facing some of the problems with Kubernetes mentioned in the last section, but they were also focused on some key outcomes, such as the following:

• Maximizing developer velocity, productivity, and impact
• Maximizing operator efficiency
• Operating seamlessly across the data center and multiple cloud providers
• Making software secure by default

These were the outcomes Tanzu set out to achieve for customers, and in the process, they would take on many of the issues people were running into with Kubernetes.

The Tanzu portfolio would take an outcome-driven approach to deliver an opinionated Kubernetes-based cloud-native application platform that was optimized for operator efficiency, developer productivity, seamless multi-cloud operation, and application security. That is the platform that we’ll cover in this book.