Tekton vs VMware Tanzu Platform comparison

"Tekton provides a feature where you can schedule the job."

"The platform's most valuable feature is its wireless capability, which makes installation easy and sets up the flow."

"I would say the customization ability that Tekton provides is good."

"The tool offers flexibility and compatibility."

"Tekton's most important feature is its cloud-native nature. Unlike Jenkins, which may not scale as efficiently, Tekton's CI pipeline can automatically scale up to handle increased workload demands without needing manual adjustments."

"You can isolate most Tekton assets in the Kubernetes namespace for your feature branch. This allows you to freely change Tekton assets and objects to adapt to your feature branch and requirements."

"One of the best things I appreciate is that Tekton runs on the Kubernetes platform. This is very useful when working on a project with other team members. For instance, suppose we have a very big project that requires building a large amount of source code or running many unit tests. During the build and unit test phases, Tekton on Kubernetes allows us to have a scalable machine to handle these tasks. This scalability is the most useful aspect for me."

"Its seamless integration with Kubernetes, being built on top of it and utilizing Custom Resource Definitions, ensures a smooth experience within Kubernetes environments exclusively."

"The most valuable feature of the solution is the ability to check the flow of all the different variants within our applications."

"The most popular feature of VMware Tanzu Mission Control is its graphical user interface for describing network policies on the Service Mesh, which is highly integrable with other tools commonly used in supply chains such as security."

"The initial setup is easy."

"The multi-tenancy with the VCD is great."

"The most important feature of Tanzu Mission Control is its integration with the other products, especially with ESX and vSAN. This is a strong part of Tanzu Mission Control. In other solutions, such as OpenShift or Kubernetes, you can find similar features, but they don't have similar integration. With Tanzu Mission Control, you get a total solution with only one provider. You have the integration with the infrastructure, virtualization of networking, and virtualization of storage. You have a natural integration, and you don't have the problem of integrating it with different products or providers. Sometimes, different companies have good integration, but it is not always guaranteed. For example, many years ago, Cisco and VMware were good partners in networking, but when VMware started to sell ESX, the relationship was broken. This is the problem that you can face when you are using solutions from two different companies."

"There are a lot of services available in VMware Tanzu Application Service, such as databases and application servers. You have everything you need in one application and you do not need to search outside of the solution."

"The valuable feature I have found to be the management of Kubernetes clusters in a private cloud or public clouds, such as Azure or Google Cloud Platform."

"The observability platform and end-to-end service portal provided by Tanzu are the most valuable features."

"When we started with Tekton around 2021 or early 2022, the community support was somewhat limited, which posed challenges when dealing with issues or debugging. We had to rely on Red Hat OpenShift support to overcome these challenges. However, I believe that these issues will naturally improve over timeas the developer community grows stronger. From a technical perspective, I haven't had the opportunity to deeply evaluate the product end-to-end, especially in the past year or so, when I've been less involved with it."

"The product's version update management process needs improvement."

"Configuring Tekton requires a deep understanding of Kubernetes, which can be difficult for developers."

"If you are a beginner, then accessing the flexibility part can be overwhelming. We think the learning curve of the tool is steep, especially for those who are not already familiar with Kubernetes."

"Tekton should include many features to integrate event-driven pipelines."

"The tool should improve in terms of output flexibility. It runs on a specific Kubernetes machine, and the persistent memory storage is on a single partition. Improving this aspect could make analyzing logs and toolchain outputs from external tools easier."

"The product's UI could be improved, as there are occasional latency issues. The triggering part, especially the CRD installation needs enhancement."

"Initially, working with YAML configuration can be challenging using the solution."

"It is not easy to build a solution with containers. It has a graphical user interface, but you need to have a lot of knowledge of Linux and how to work in the command mode. Its support can also be improved. Currently, its biggest disadvantage is that it is a new product, and the clients prefer to go for a solution that has been in the market for a long time. There are not that many people who know this product."

"The solution is currently focused on VMware infrastructure and I would like to see more options made available."

"Tanzu provides better manageability as compared to OCP, but when it comes to tagging it with other products, it's a bit rigid. If I have to bring in any new product or something out of the box from a different vendor, working with Tanzu becomes a little difficult. For example, if I want to use the F5 services, I have to add one more layer of Avi, but I don't want to do that. If I have a list of the products that I want to use, such as for firewall services, with Tanzu, I will have to go through another layer, which creates complexity."

"Addressing the high upfront costs could improve the product. Implementing a subscription-based model with tiered service options could make it more accessible to a broader range of customers."

"The solution could improve by having better integration with other solutions such as HPE."

"The solution's initial setup process was complex...The solution could benefit from improved customization and visibility for its users."

"Another area of improvement is pricing."

"I would like to see additional support for things outside of Cloud Foundry."

"The tool is open-source and free to use."

"The solution is open-source."

"Tekton is an open-source tool."

"It is entirely open source and free of charge."

"The product is free of cost."

"One of our Spanish customers told us that VMware Tanzu Service Mesh is a very expensive product for their data center."

"The price of VMware Tanzu Mission Control is greater than that of Red Hat's competitor solution"

"Since we were at a large data center, the price might not have been a concern for us."

"There are different licenses available. You have to upgrade your license if you want to scale the solution more."

"VMware Tanzu Mission Control is cheaper than Red Hat OpenShift."

"The license for VMware Tanzu Application Service is expensive. The license should be cheaper."

"The solution is only for large or medium size enterprises because it is expensive."

"The product is not expensive, but it is not cheap."