What VMware Application Catalog is
After delivering comprehensive detail on what business, security, and technological challenges VAC can address and where it will not be a good use case, let’s now understand this tool in a bit more detail to see what it contains. But before that, let’s look into the background of VAC to learn more about it.
The history of VMware Application Catalog
In late 2019, with a vision of curating a comprehensive portfolio of modern application development and management tools, VMware decided to acquire a popular OSS packaging and distribution company named Bitnami. Bitnami had several years of experience working in this space, initially providing well-curated and consumable OSS tools in the form of binaries, virtual machine images, and container images. After the acquisition, VMware rebranded Bitnami as Tanzu Application Catalog to define an enterprise-grade OSS container image distribution offering that can customize the image specification...