Why Tanzu Kubernetes Grid?

In a nutshell, TKG is an enterprise-supported flavor of the open source Kubernetes platform. Like many other distributions, TKG uses the upstream Kubernetes distributions without modifying the open source code base. However, there are a few good reasons why an enterprise would like to use TKG over the open source community – vanilla – distribution of Kubernetes. We’ll explore those reasons in this section.

Multi-cloud application deployments

As per a survey done by Gartner (https://www.gartner.com/smarterwithgartner/why-organizations-choose-a-multicloud-strategy), over 81% of respondents said that they have a multi-cloud deployment or strategy. Enterprises have multi-cloud strategies for reasons such as avoiding vendor lock-ins and using the best services offered by the respective cloud provider. Additionally, the enterprises have applications that may not be deployed on a public cloud platform and hence deployed on-premises. Kubernetes...