Is your organization feeling stuck using Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF), now known as Tanzu Application Service (TAS or sometimes VMware Cloud Foundation)? You're not alone. Broadcom completed its acquisition of VMware in late 2023. To make the most of their acquisition, Broadcom is trying to squeeze money out of VMware — leading to skyrocketing costs for PCF (aka Tanzu) customers. You don’t have to remain bound to PCF, though — you can move to Kubernetes, and we can help.
Kubernetes is the de facto standard for container orchestration. Here's where it shines:
Many PCF/Tanzu customers are leaving in the face of skyrocketing prices and increased vendor lock-in. We believe you should have a choice in how and where you deploy your applications, so we’ve teamed up with SuperOrbital to make that migration easy.
The SuperOrbital team has deep experience with both PCF/Tanzu and Kubernetes, offering skill, experience, and judgment you can rely on to translate your workloads, services, and custom BOSH releases to Kubernetes. SuperOrbital doesn’t just lift-and-shift your applications — they provide the best in-depth training in the industry so you know where you’ve been, where you’re going, and how to get there.
This is where Fairwinds’ Managed Kubernetes comes in. Our experienced team builds your new production-grade Kubernetes infrastructure in whichever cloud environment you choose and its people-led service includes 24x7 monitoring and incident response for your Kubernetes infrastructure so you can deploy with confidence.
Here's how Fairwinds supports your move to K8s:
Fairwinds builds infra using Terraform, provides key metrics for auto scaling applications, and monitors for and patches the latest common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs).
Fairwinds migrates from Pivotal managed services to your cloud’s managed services, provisions with Terraform, and writes Kubernetes network policies to control container-to-container communication.
Fairwinds converts BOSH deployments to Kubernetes deployments, writes CI/CD pipelines to build containers and deploy to Kubernetes, uses HorizontalPodAutoscaler (HPA) to horizontally scale applications to meet demand, and maintains PCF’s self-healing capabilities with Kubernetes scheduler and Kubernetes readiness, liveness, and startup probes.
Fairwinds creates a cf-push like experience for developers using GitOps, ingress controller, cert-manager, and other open source tooling. It also manages fine-grained developer access and permissions with your cloud’s identity and access management (IAM) solution and Kubernetes role-based access control (RBAC).
If you’re ready to break free from the limitations and excessive costs of PCF and embrace the power and flexibility of Kubernetes, we can help. The combined expertise of Fairwinds’ Managed Kubernetes and SuperOrbital's migration and training services will accelerate your time to value and support the move from PCF to K8s by ensuring your infrastructure is reliable and secure without locking you in or increasing your costs.
