Enterprise-ready Kubernetes
Benefit from enterprise-grade features like high availability, advanced networking and seamless scalability, ensuring your containerized applications run smoothly across any environment.
VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated
Streamline Kubernetes management across clouds
Talk to an expertEase Day 1 and Day 2 operations
Get a complete, easy-to-manage Kubernetes runtime with pre-integrated and validated components. Deploy and scale all clusters without downtime. Apply security fixes fast.
Align with open source
Run your containerized applications on a certified Kubernetes distribution, and leverage the wide array of services and extensions provided by the vast Kubernetes ecosystem.
Key Capabilities
Unified multi-cloud Kubernetes
Enjoy robust support for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) and major public cloud providers, ensuring consistent management and scalability of your Kubernetes clusters.
Automated multi-cluster operations
Simplify operations of large-scale, multi-cluster Kubernetes environments, and keep your workloads properly isolated. Automate lifecycle management to reduce your risk and shift your focus to more strategic work.
Validated integrated services
Streamline the deployment and management of local and in-cluster platform services—like logging, monitoring, networking and storage services—to more easily configure and maintain a production-ready Kubernetes environment.
Enterprise-wide management
As you scale your Kubernetes footprint, keep your operational burden low with VMware Tanzu Platform. Get global visibility across teams, clusters and workloads. Automate multi-region configuration and policy management.
Expert support
Get 24x7 production support from VMware Global Support Services. Access guidance from the Kubernetes community and the broader cloud native ecosystem.
Use Cases
Provide Kubernetes as a service on vSphere
Extend your enterprise-ready Kubernetes operating model across data centers and clouds through simple deployment on vSphere and VMware Cloud Foundation. Extend your operational workflows and tooling to cloud native infrastructure, while giving developers the ability to access conformant Kubernetes clusters through the native Kubernetes API.
Achieve seamless multi-cloud Kubernetes deployments
Effortlessly deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters across on-premises vSphere environments and leading public cloud providers. Leverage advanced networking capabilities with VMware NSX-T for enhanced security and micro-segmentation, ensuring your applications are robust, secure and scalable in any environment.
Securely manage Kubernetes for regulated workloads
Run your sensitive and regulated workloads on a secure, compliant platform that meets national data residency and data sovereignty requirements. Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated simplifies the deployment of self-contained Kubernetes environments, providing enhanced security for application data in isolated regions with flexible security postures at the cluster level.
Manage Kubernetes consistently across teams and clouds
Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated can be managed by Tanzu Platform, which makes it easier to secure all of your Kubernetes clusters, especially at scale. Your operational burden stays low with automated configuration, role-based access control and policy management, and broad observability across your fleet of clusters and workloads.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated?
Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated is a production-grade Kubernetes-based container solution equipped with advanced networking, a private container registry and full lifecycle management capabilities. It simplifies Kubernetes deployment and management, providing features such as high availability, rolling upgrades, health checks and self-healing.
Where can you run Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated?
Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated can be deployed on-premises on vSphere, as well as on public clouds like Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft Azure.
What are the key capabilities of Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated?
The most notable capabilities of Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated include:
- Comprehensive Kubernetes management across environments. Effortlessly deploy and manage Kubernetes with secure, scalable operations across vSphere environments and public clouds. Experience unified, consistent management with declarative Kubernetes APIs.
- Automated multi-cluster operations. Simplify operations of large-scale, multi-cluster Kubernetes environments, and keep your workloads properly isolated.
- Enterprise-wide management. Tight integration with Tanzu Platform.
- Validated integrated services. Local and in-cluster platform services like logging, monitoring, networking and storage services.
- 24x7 expert support from VMware Global Support Services.
What are the benefits of Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated?
Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated allows enterprises to easily deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters across multi-cloud environments, providing a robust, secure and scalable infrastructure for cloud native applications. With Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated, organizations can benefit from high availability, advanced networking and simplified operations, ensuring a consistent and efficient Kubernetes experience.
How do you run Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated?
Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated can be run across a variety of environments including on-premises with vSphere, VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) and leading public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform. Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated provides flexibility and consistency in managing Kubernetes clusters in private, public and multi-cloud environments.
Who uses Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated?
Infrastructure architects, infrastructure operators and platform engineers use Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated to provide application teams with reliable, secure, compliant Kubernetes infrastructure. Application administrators and developers use Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated in turn to help automate delivery, operation and management of modern, cloud native applications.
What if my organization wants to go beyond what Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated offers?
Organizations ready to further develop their container management capabilities with advanced tools, automation and data-driven insights can expand their Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated environment with Tanzu Platform.