VMWare Tanzu - Highlights

* Tanzu is the Japanese word for containers

* With  "the biggest rearchitecture of vSphere in a decade", VMware is making vSphere capable of managing both virtual machines and Kubernetes (K8s) clusters in version 7 of vSphere. 

* Tanzu is a portfolio of products centered on K8s. Following VMware's acquisition of Pivotal in December 2019, Pivotal's PKS (Pivotal Container Service) K8s distribution is now known as VMware Enterprise PKS and is now part of Tanzu. 

* In 2019, VMWare also acquired Bitnami, a specialist in packaging open-source applications for easy deployment to targets including K8s. This technology is now behind the Tanzu Application Catalog, which allows users to deploy commonly used applications and runtimes (such as node.js, Wordpess, MySQL or TensorFlow.)

* Tanzu portfolio has ability to work across multiple K8s distributions and public clouds

* VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition [link to PDF datasheet] builds on Kubernetes, BOSH, VMware NSX-T, and Project Harbor to form a production-grade, highly available container runtime that operates on vSphere and public clouds. 

*  VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition can be easily deployed and operationalized via Operations Manager, which allows a common operating model to deploy VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition across multiple IaaS abstractions like VMware vSphere, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Azure.

* Tanzu Mission Control can manage those clusters regardless of where they reside.

* There is a good collection of ebooks related to Cloud Native technologies over at the VMWare Tanzu content library.  It includes Kubernetes for Executives [PDF]

* Tanzu has been identified as a Strong Performer in Forrester's Wave evaluation of Multicloud Container Development Platforms (MCDP) in which Red Hat OpenShift, Google Anthos, and Rancher are rated as Leaders.