Hi everyone – This is a monumental day for VMware and the entire Tanzu team . I’m excited and honored to unveil the latest innovation for every Kubernetes practitioner. A new Kubernetes platform that is completely free and open source.
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Introducing VMware Tanzu Community Edition.
With Tanzu Community Edition you can experience VMware Tanzu RIGHT NOW.
It’s open source, and available to download with no strings attached.
You can install and configure it in minutes and run it on your local workstation or favorite cloud.
With Tanzu Community Edition you can Take on new challenges confidently -
with a proven, enterprise-grade Kubernetes platform that can address your immediate needs, as well as more challenging problems you are likely to encounter later.
Wherever the future takes you, the knowledge, skills, and artifacts you develop with Tanzu Community Edition can go with you,
and are fully transferable to Tanzu commercial offerings.
You can Explore Kubernetes and Tanzu independently –
with open source software that is not constrained by usage limitations or functional restrictions. Awesome.
You also don’t need to provide any personal information.
But independent doesn’t mean alone.
To help you get through that steep Kubernetes learning curve,
you also get free access to top-notch education and training resources
as well as community support backed by committed and knowledgeable experts.
It’s fast and easy to get up and running with Tanzu Community Edition using readily available infrastructure.
You can install and configure a fully functional cluster, customized to your needs in minutes and on your current resources.
So what did we build?
We brought together an opinionated approach to open source technologies that you need to get started with cloud native today – and to keep going tomorrow too. For example, you may want to start with a simple platform using only a small subset of what you see here.
as your needs grow, so can your platform – it’s easy to add any of these packages to address your changing needs.
So How will YOU use Tanzu Community Edition?
Are you looking to build or sharpen your cloud native skills? Getting ready for that certification exam? Just plain curious? Use it to gain practical knowledge and skills with a hands-on environment you can get up and running quickly
Not sure which Kubernetes platform is right for you? Do your due diligence. Put Tanzu Community Edition to the test.
Run a proof of concept, compare with alternatives, and complete the independent research you need to make a decision.
Tanzu Community Edition is open source,
it's full-featured, easy to manage, and community supported and yours to use as you’d like.
Whether you are an application developer, IT operator, or DevOps engineer look no further and get started with Tanzu Community Edition today.
So do you want to see what it is? Our tech lead Josh Rosso is going to give you a small taste of Tanzu Community Edition. He'll show you how easy it is to get up and running with the platform.
Josh has been involved in the cloud native community since Kubernetes 1.0 and recently wrote a book through O’Reilly, called “Production Kubernetes”.
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