You're reading from DevSecOps in Practice with VMware Tanzu Build, run, and manage secure multi-cloud apps at scale on Kubernetes with the Tanzu portfolio

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803241340

Length 436 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Kubernetes

Concepts

DevOps

Authors (2):

Robert Hardt

Parth Pandit

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1 – Building Cloud-Native Applications on the Tanzu Platform

2. Chapter 1: Understanding the Need to Move to a Cloud Platform FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Developing Cloud-Native Applications

4. Chapter 3: Building Secure Container Images with Build Service

5. Chapter 4: Provisioning Backing Services for Applications

6. Chapter 5: Defining and Managing Business APIs

7. Part 2 – Running Cloud-Native Applications on Tanzu

8. Chapter 6: Managing Container Images with Harbor

9. Chapter 7: Orchestrating Containers across Clouds with Tanzu Kubernetes Grid

10. Chapter 8: Enhancing Developer Productivity with Tanzu Application Platform

11. Part 3 – Managing Modern Applications on the Tanzu Platform

12. Chapter 9: Managing and Controlling Kubernetes Clusters with Tanzu Mission Control

13. Chapter 10: Realizing Full-Stack Visibility with VMware Aria Operations for Applications

14. Chapter 11: Enabling Secure Inter-Service Communication with Tanzu Service Mesh

15. Chapter 12: Bringing It All Together

16. Index

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Appendix

GSLB with NSX-T Advanced Load Balancer and Tanzu Service Mesh

One particular day-2 task that is worthy of its own section is implementing GSLB with Tanzu Service Mesh and NSX Advanced Load Balancer.

NSX Advanced Load Balancer

NSX Advanced Load Balancer (NSX-ALB) is a product that, while not technically part of the Tanzu portfolio, complements it very well. You can learn more about it, especially as it pertains to GSLB, here: https://avinetworks.com/docs/20.1/gslb-architecture-terminology-object-model/#gslbsites.

In short, NSX-ALB is a powerful software load balancer that’s completely API-driven, allowing for tight integrations with other API-driven technologies such as Kubernetes or Tanzu Service Mesh. In addition to enabling the usual functions of an enterprise load balancer such as VIPs, traffic policies, and WAF, it also provides a robust DNS implementation, which makes it especially useful for GSLB. The following is a rough diagram of how Tanzu Service Mesh and...