VMware Tanzu provides a full stack of capabilities for modernizing your applications and infrastructure to continuously deliver better software to production.
The VMware Tanzu portfolio simplifies multi-cloud operations, while freeing developers to move quickly and access the resources they need to build modern applications.
With VMware Tanzu, you can transform your applications and infrastructure in your own way and at your own pace, to build new, cloud-native applications. VMware Tanzu allows you to containerize your workloads to run in the cloud, while increasing security and manageability. You can refactor existing software to be delivered continuously and resiliently. You run and manage your applications consistently everywhere, on a secure and scalable infrastructure with a conformant Kubernetes runtime.
Learn About the VMware Tanzu Editions
VMware Tanzu editions package capabilities of the Tanzu Portfolio into clearly defined solutions targeted at the most common enterprise challenges.
See the Tanzu Solution Brief and the VMware Tanzu Blog to learn more about Tanzu Basic Edition, Tanzu Standard Edition, and Tanzu Advanced.
- VMware Tanzu Basic Edition
- VMware Tanzu Basic Edition includes everything an enterprise needs to make best use of Kubernetes as part of its vSphere-based infrastructure. With Tanzu Basic Edition you can embed Kubernetes in vSphere 7 or deploy your own management cluster on vSphere 6.7U3 or vSphere 7. For more information, see the product page for Tanzu Basic Edition.
- VMware Tanzu Standard Edition
- VMware Tanzu Standard Edition is for organizations that want to operate a Kubernetes-based container solution across multiple clouds. Whereas Tanzu Basic Edition is intrinsically tied to vSphere, Tanzu Standard Edition provides you the flexibility to extend a consistent, open source-aligned Kubernetes distribution across on-premises, public clouds. Tanzu Standard Edition allows you to operate one distribution anywhere and gain consistent management over all your Kubernetes clusters with global observability, common configuration control and centralized data protection across any environment. For more information, see the product page for Tanzu Standard Edition.
- VMware Tanzu Advanced Edition
- VMware Tanzu Advanced Edition builds on Tanzu Standard Edition to simplify and secure the container life cycle, enabling teams to accelerate the delivery of modern apps at scale across clouds. It adds a comprehensive global control plane with observability and service mesh; advanced load balancing; and developer enablement in terms of frameworks, data services, an image catalog, and automated build. For more information, see the product page for Tanzu Advanced Edition.
In the following table, each edition inherits the components of the edition that precedes it. So, VMware Tanzu Standard Edition includes all of the components of VMware Tanzu Basic Edition, and VMware Tanzu Advanced includes all of the components of VMware Tanzu Standard Edition and Tanzu Basic Edition. To learn more about each of the components, use the links in the table to visit their product pages.
| VMware Tanzu Basic Edition | VMware Tanzu Standard Edition | VMware Tanzu Advanced | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Management | vCenter Server | VMware Tanzu Basic Edition + VMware Tanzu Mission Control Standard |
VMware Tanzu Standard Edition + VMware Tanzu Mission Control Advanced |
| Observability | Logs and metrics forwarding provided by Fluent Bit. | VMware Tanzu Basic Edition + Platform monitoring and alerting provided by Prometheus and Grafana dashboards |
VMware Tanzu Standard Edition + Platform monitoring and alerting provided by highly available (HA) Prometheus and Grafana dashboards |
| Kubernetes Runtime | VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid on vSphere |
Same as VMware Tanzu Basic Edition |
Same as VMware Tanzu Standard Edition |
| Networking | Container Networking with Antrea built in to Tanzu Kubernetes clusters Calico |
Same as VMware Tanzu Basic Edition |
VMware Tanzu Standard Edition + VMware Container Networking with Antrea for Tanzu Advanced |
| Container Build | |||
| Developer Framework |
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| Image Management | vSphere Registry Service (with NSX-T Data Center) |
Same as VMware Tanzu Basic Edition |
VMware Tanzu Standard Edition |
| Data Services |
See the VMware Tanzu Documentation
The VMware Tanzu Advanced Edition documentation set includes the following sections:
- Overview of Tanzu Advanced Edition
- Deploy and Configure VMware Tanzu Advanced Edition
- Upgrade from Tanzu Basic Edition or Standard Edition to Tanzu Advanced Edition
For VMware Tanzu Standard Edition, see the following documentation:
- VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid
- vSphere with Tanzu Configuration and Management
- VMware Tanzu Mission Control
For VMware Tanzu Basic Edition, see the following documentation:
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To see documentation for all of the individual products in the entire VMware Tanzu Portfolio, go to https://docs.tanzu.io/.
Explore VMware Tanzu Videos
Learn about how VMware Tanzu helps you to create a Kubernetes development and deployment platform by watching videos on the VMware Tanzu YouTube channel.
