VMware Inc. said today it’s adding a new product to its Tanzu portfolio for building and managing modern container-based applications.

VMware Tanzu Advanced is said to build upon VMware Tanzu Standard, adding more focus on DevSecOps, which is a set of practices that combines software development and information technology operations. The aim of DevSecOps is to shorten the systems development life cycle and provide continuous delivery with high software quality.

The new product is a full stack with modular capabilities that brings the developer experience to the forefront while baking security deeper into the container lifecycle, VMware said in a blog post.

One of the main advantages of VMware Tanzu Advanced is that it makes it easier to manage Kubernetes clusters centrally across various clouds and teams. Kubernetes is open-source software that’s used to orchestrate large clusters of containers, which are used to encapsulate applications so they can run on many kinds of computers. Tanzu Advanced also enables full observability into the health and performance of clusters across clouds.

Holger Mueller of Constellation Research Inc. told SiliconANGLE that if you want to run Kubernetes on VMware’s vSphere virtualization platform, then Tanzu is the only way to do that. “So the new security capabilities offered with Tanzu Advanced are welcome additions,” he said.

Besides Tanzu Advanced, the company also announced the coming preview of Project Iris, which is meant to help teams discover and analyze their application portfolios. The goal is to help organizations reduce operational expenses and improve maintenance windows, VMware said.

“Project Iris discovers and analyzes an organization’s full app portfolio; recommends which apps to rehost, replatform, or refactor; and enables customers to adapt their own transformation journey for each app, line of business, or data center,” the VMware Tanzu team wrote in a blog post. “For apps that fall into the replatform category, it simplifies the conversion of Java applications (using Tomcat, WebLogic, and WebSphere) to run in a Kubernetes environment.”

Mueller told SiliconANGLE that existing workloads need to be adopted, ported or re-written for new application infrastructures.

“VMware wants to get that done with its Project Iris and the future will tell how successful that will be,” he said.

And in a final update, VMware said it’s rebranding VMware Pivotal Labs, which is its software consulting business, as “VMware Tanzu Labs.”

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