Kubernetes is the highest abstraction available to modern application developers today, sitting above containers and VMs. It is also arguably the most complex to get started with, VMware believes, being a mostly DIY user experience (such as building and maintaining containers and configuring them using YAML). As such, VMware has announced its Tanzu Application Platform (TAP) as a new set of abstractions that packages certain functionalities to help remove some of the complexity and take the sting out of cloud-native development – simplifying application delivery. 

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