Building Secure Container Images with Build Service

In the previous chapter, we discussed how Application Accelerator for VMware Tanzu helps organizations with a uniform and efficient way of building greenfield applications. This is a great start to building cloud-native applications that are based on predefined templates. These templates help developers purely focus on the business logic, which brings revenue to the organization.

Greenfield and cloud-native applications

Greenfield is a term from the construction industry that refers to undeveloped land. In the IT world, greenfield describes a software project that is developed from scratch rather than built from an existing program. It is often contrasted with brownfield, which describes software built from an existing program. Reference: https://techterms.com/definition/greenfield.

Cloud-native applications, as you might surmise, are written to take advantage of cloud computing. They are characterized by such technologies...