Chapter 1, Understanding the Need to Move to a Cloud Platform, sets the context and provides a subject background all about modern applications for the reader.

Chapter 2, Developing Cloud-Native Applications, explains how to develop secure cloud-native applications using predefined application templates containing the required framework and the boilerplate code.

Chapter 3, Building Secure Container Images with Build Service, guides the reader on how to build secure container images in a fully automated manner from the application code or artifacts.

Chapter 4, Provisioning Backing Services for Applications, details how to build a catalog of popular open source tools so that their secure container images can be used as application backend services.

Chapter 5, Defining and Managing Business APIs, is all about how to build and manage secure application APIs.

Chapter 6, Managing Container Images with Harbor, provides instructions on how to store and manage container images with a private container image registry.

Chapter 7, Orchestrating Containers across Clouds with Tanzu Kubernetes Grid, unpacks the details of a multi-cloud Kubernetes platform.

Chapter 8, Enhancing Developer Productivity with Tanzu Application Platform, breaks down how to set up a secure supply chain of applications to build a rapid path to production.

Chapter 9, Managing and Controlling Kubernetes Clusters with Tanzu Mission Control, teaches the reader how to centrally manage a fleet of different flavors of Kubernetes clusters deployed in a multi-cloud environment.

Chapter 10, Realizing Full-Stack Visibility with VMware Aria Operations for Applications, demonstrates how to monitor multi-cloud deployed applications, their Kubernetes platforms, and the underlying infrastructure.

Chapter 11, Enabling Secure Inter-Service Communication with Tanzu Service Mesh, explores how to establish secure communication for microservices deployed on Kubernetes in a multi-cloud/multi-cluster setup.

Chapter 12, Bringing It All Together, summarizes the end-to-end picture of the technology landscape, along with some future predictions for the technologies involved.