Google sponsored project Borg to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) in 2016. Consequently, Kubernetes became one of the most thriving open-source projects in the history of IT. After the usual movement through the hype cycle of Container Orchestration technologies, K8 is now mature and ready for enterprise grade production environments.
Moreover, many platforms like VMware with Tanzu, Red Hat and OpenShift or AKS by Azure, exist. These cloud providers offer their flavored K8s products, that fit into their ecosystem and heavily rely on automation and security.
Now, companies that adopted the K8s stack and started operating microservices arrive at new challenges. For example, managing multi tenancy and multiple cluster environments.
So, Tanzu Mission Control (TMC) is a relatively new product which offers diverse functions to supervise these environments in a single pane of glass. It reached General Availability on June 4, 2021. … and I already stressed that out, but more about hands-on soon.
