Build an Infrastructure - Over Lunch - That Developers Want to Use
Given at VMware Explore on Tour Frankfurt on , with Chris McClanahan.
Handing developers a Kubernetes cluster isn't handing them a platform. This talk walks the path to production as a developer actually experiences it, shows why an opinionated platform as a service on VMware Cloud Foundation gets code to production faster than a container service, and stands up Tanzu Platform on VCF 9.1 in the time it takes to eat lunch.
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Resources
- Secure your open source software with TrueSource by Broadcom
- TryTanzu - check out the Tanzu Platform with a 90 day trial.
- The Las Vegas version of this talk, Chris McClanahan and Darin Zook, VMware Explore 2026
- Beyond the Kubernetes complexity: delivering an AI-ready platform developers love (over lunch), the blog version of the talk, by Darin Zook
- Enterprise-grade platform engineering at Charles Schwab: three engineers, the whole Cloud Foundry estate, and the Log4j story
- Governance at Scale: Securing the App Estate, Erik Scales of Schwab with Valentina Alaria, VMware Explore 2026
- The TrueSource announcement: Spring Enterprise, TrueSource Trusted Artifacts, and TrueSource Data Services for Postgres, RabbitMQ, MySQL and Valkey
- VCF Automation 9.1 video series, Maher Al-Asfar, for the tenancy and self-service side
- Tanzu Platform, the product page