VMware Tanzu Mission Control (TMC)

Do you need to accelerate the building of cloud-native applications or improve their deployment in your cloud without any limitation?

VMware Tanzu is one of the greatest subjects of VMworld 2019 that want to answer and resolve your issues and lead your cloud apps provisioning with this motto: Any App in any Cloud & Any Cluster even Kubernetes!

VMware explained about Tanzu Mission Control (TMC):

1. Automatically provision new clusters and attach existing clusters running in multiple environments—including vSphere, VMC, public clouds, and managed Kubernetes services—for centralized management and operations.

2. Easily set policies for access, backup, networking, and more, and enforce the right configuration across fleets of clusters and applications running in multiple clouds."

3. With policies and configuration in place, safely enable developers with self-service access to the resources they need to deploy their applications in multiple clouds—without changing their native workflows. 

As Tom Fenton mentioned in this link it looks like TMC will be a SaaS-based control plane and will treat your K8s clusters like a new layer of abstraction. TMC will give you lifecycle management and control, role-based access control and the ability to inspect the health of your K8s clusters (most of Day2 Operations). Also, you'll be able to manage the entire lifecycle of your K8s clusters: From instantiation to decommissioning

It seems that managing multiple Kubernetes clusters regardless of their location is a complex challenging that VMware TMC wants to resolve it.

Also see the following overview video of VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger about VMware Tanzu: