March 24, 2025

Utility containerization is seeing an accelerated development, primarily attributed by the pliability and the flexibility of the know-how to supply OOTB options for builders. Leading to enhanced developer expertise thus boosting enterprise worth.

The flexibility of the know-how to cater to the rising want of enterprise agility, decrease prices and the requirement of a sooner time-to-market has propelled giant scale modernization of business-critical functions lately.

Nonetheless, it doesn’t cease there. The fashionable functions market is predicted to develop at a median reported fee of ~25% as much as 2027. This adoption of container applied sciences by fashionable enterprises will likely be contributing to the expansion curve.

VMware by Broadcom’s innovation first strategy has all the time centered on serving to our Cloud Service Supplier companions allow and help their buyer’s app modernization journey.
Right this moment, we’re completely happy to announce the final availability VMware Cloud Director Container Service Extension (CSE) model 4.2

As all the time, now we have added enhancements that helps the newest enterprise necessities.
On this launch, we deliver you the next:

  • Now we have added help to Tanzu Kubernetes Grid variations (TKG) 2.3.1 and a couple of.4.0, that helps Kubernetes variations, 1.25.13 to 1.27.5.
  • Subsequent, VMware Cloud Director Container Service Extension is now interoperable with VMware Cloud Director (VCD) variations 10.4.3 and 105.1.
  • Customers can now improve their pre-existing clusters to the advisable Kubernetes variations with an upgraded script. See The best way to Upgrade Kubernetes Components in VMware Cloud Director Container Service Extension Clusters?

One other replace is that we’re additionally introducing the VMware Cloud Director Extension for VMware Tanzu Mission Control self-managed – an unique plug in for Sovereign compliant VCD customers to for managing TKG clusters deployed through CSE.

This model of CSE has a totally built-in VMware Container Service Extension UI for Cloud Suppliers with guided set up of TMC Self-Managed and in addition supplies the information to onboard tenants to TMC Self-Managed utilizing VCD UI.

For extra info on the discharge, do examine our product documentations page and the release notes. You may obtain the newest model of VMware Cloud Director Container Service Extension here. For extra info join with us on our slack channel or write to us in case you are not a member already.