Day 3 – common operational activities on Tanzu Application Platform
Thus far, we’ve installed a fully functional application platform, but in some ways, it still may feel like a toy. For instance, no enterprise is going to allow workloads to be deployed without TLS. Also, the platform is a bit of a black box that takes our source code and turns it into a running application. How can we know that what’s running on the platform is the exact code we checked in? Going in depth into these topics is a bit beyond the scope of this book, but what I will do is describe some additional operational tasks and the problems they solve, and point you to some useful in-depth resources for more information.
Securing running workloads with TAP GUI with TLS
For an application platform in the enterprise, securing all web endpoints with TLS is non-negotiable. There are a few options that I’ll list here. Some involve procuring the certificate outside of Kubernetes and supplying...