# VMware Tanzu Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Is VMware Tanzu the right DevOps solution for you? Explore 17 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/230522/VMware-Tanzu/reviews --- VMware Tanzu 4.2 (17) [View alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/230522/VMware-Tanzu/alternatives/) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated April 15th, 2026 # Reviews of VMware Tanzu Ease of use 4.1 Customer Service 3.4 ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 1-17 of 17 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use Jürgen S. Principal cloud platform engineer Information Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "The key to enterprise adoption of devops principles " August 29, 2023 4.0 Tanzu products are the initial spark to start e devops transformation of big companies. Its the core devops platform Pros They are focused on developers and their needs and make clouds easy consumable Cons The products are quite expensive but are worth their price. TAP is not that mature as TASbut that will change over time Reason for choosing VMware Tanzu Because of its open source nature Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Software Engineer Hospital & Health Care Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Opinion on Tanzu" September 8, 2023 4.0 Our software teams now have a k8s platform on which to deploy their applications moving away from the traditional VM based deployments giving them more freedom in technology choices and also giving them more control over what they deploy Pros The integration with our existing VMWare products Cons The configuration and initial setup is quite hard and requires a lot of manual configuration Alternatives considered [Microsoft Azure](https://www.capterra.com/p/16365/Azure/) Reason for choosing VMware Tanzu Our company wasn't ready yet to go to the cloud for our k8s implementation Review Source BJ Boris J. Tech Lead Health, Wellness and Fitness Used the software for: 2+ years ### "A lot of trial and error on rolling it out, wasted over a year to get some basic clusters" September 8, 2023 2.0 Pros Not much at the moment, still waiting to get some value out of it Cons It breaks all the time, stability is alpha at max, would never recommend it in this stage. There is no balance between new features added (really high) and stability (non-existent). Review Source PP Pawel P. Solutions Architect Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "A solid PaaS solution provided by Tanzu." August 29, 2023 4.0 As a benefit we've managed to support growing number of developers and project with the same PE staff capacity. Pros I like the consistency and providing all the required tools by a single vendor. Cons Documentation is still a weak point, especially after mergind Pivotal and VMware. Alternatives considered [Rancher](https://www.capterra.com/p/234842/Rancher/) Reason for choosing VMware Tanzu COnsistency with the underlying platform and single support contact. Review Source BW Bradley W. Solutions Arcitect Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "For your cloud native needs Tanzu brings a big winner " August 7, 2024 5.0 VMware's Tanzu brings a super solid service mesh backed by a very stable and tested Kubernetes engine. Pros VMware's Tanzu was as expected a very polished product bringing together a k8s engine, service mesh and the latest container service interface for all your storage requirements. Cons Weighing up the cost against opensource products like open stack and free flavours of k8s and the Tanzu product and VMware support needs some analysis. Review Source SX Simmy X. VP - Reliability and CloudOps Leader Financial Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Most Developer Friendly Product" September 3, 2023 5.0 Very happy with TAS overall from Platform and Developer perspective. Having challenges in adopting TAP and TKGI overall due to the additional complexity involved from app development all the way to release and day-2 operations Pros Feature rich, Developer First mindset, Ease of deployment and releases, Long Term Support versions for more conservative and quarterly releases for more aggressive. Baked in Security. Cons Pricing Model for different products varies drastically. Certificate management not very easy. Compatibility with other VMware products like ESX, NSX in addition to some of the Cloud offerings. Reason for choosing VMware Tanzu Not applicable Review Source MR Mateusz R. VMware/Tanzu Administrator Telecommunications Used the software for: 2+ years ### "vSphere with Tanzu - implementation in PoC and Prod environment " August 29, 2023 4.0 The overall experience is great. This is a promising and developing solution. Of course, there are some things that can be done differently. However, most of the time, implementation, migration and maintenance of the vSphere with Tanzu platform are at a satisfactory level.Project in my company is still growing and new implementation are on the way - for example, deployment and vSphere with Tanzu with NSX-T. Pros Easy deployment process of the vSphere with Tanzu. I don't see any major problems with integration to good known DevOps tools like: Gitlab, Jenkins, Artifactory, Terraform, Vault. New platform customers are happy to use Tanzu environment. Developers don't need to make big changes in CI/CD pipeline to deploy application at TKGs clusters. Tanzu platform is regularly updated which is an advantage. I like few different ways to deploy and configure clusters (for example TMC, shell script, Jenkins pipeline etc) Cons Sometimes I see lack of documentation for some configurations, for example: - I don't see any mention in docs to which sites I need to open network traffic to run Lite/Conformance tests in the TMC;- Configuration of the Fluentbit with Elasticsearch is a bit tricky. I spent many hours with support and by myself to configure it properly;- Sometimes support need much time to resolve issues or need to investigate problem with an engineering team Review Source JH Joe H. Senior Enterprise Architect and Platform Owner Insurance Used the software for: 2+ years ### "The capabilities are there. It is up to you to use them." August 29, 2023 4.0 I've driven the adoption of many different technologies within my company over the years. I brought in virtualization using VMware GSX before ESX. I've championed and standardized APM has a tool for application health and troubleshooting. I've been a staunch proponent of ITSM tools( you probably know the name ) Tanzu has been without a doubt the most rapidly and fully embraced platform in the company. Pros TAS is an extremely stable product. TAP is taking the best of open source software and providing the glue that makes it more turnkey. Cons Their pricing metrics are all wrong. That is to say that the basis for pricing the product is not aligned with the individual components nor with business outcomes. VMware has been very open to soliciting feedback on this and we will see if it improves. Review Source CV Christoph V. Lead Consultant Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Common customer questions for small and mid range environments" August 29, 2023 4.0 I have a great time explaining the tech and the different tools / software to the customer. They are most likely really interested into Tanzu and want to know more. Getting it into a test environment is most of the time harder that expected. Pros The protfolio has a wide range of products which the customer can use to build their ideal platform. Even open source projects are directly available and common use for most of the projects ( like Grafana, Harbor ) Cons As I said in the "Pro" part of this form, the complexity can also be a contra point as most of the admins just want to run Kubernetes in their cluster with some monitoring and resource capability. Creating small test environments is to complex for them or take to much time. Reason for choosing VMware Tanzu Long time vSphere admin. Want to expand the currently running vSphere 7.0.3 environment and have some incompatibility issues resolved with Rancher Review Source TR Thomas R. Platform Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "A solid foundation for enhancing your developer expirience" August 29, 2023 4.0 VMware Tanzu enables our developers to focus on app developed and bringing new features quickly from dev to production in a standardized, secure and compliant way. Pros Tanzu is a very good solution for large enterprises with platform teams that can create golden paths for developers. These golden paths provide an easy way for DevOps teams to spend more time on creating value for their products than on boilerplate building blocks like wiring your service with logging, databases, etc. Cons I think the Tanzu product suite is only suitable for big enterprises that can afford dedicated platform team for taking care of the Tanzu platform because it is a quite complex setup. Alternatives considered [OpenShift](https://www.capterra.com/p/176566/OpenShift/) Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Middleware Manager Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Herrameintas confiables de Contenerizacion y DevOps " February 12, 2024 5.0 Mi experiencia ha sido implementando Tanzu Kubernetes Grid. Pros Una vez configurados los productos proporciona una infraestructura confibale y estable. Cons Una de las desventajas que pude percatarme es que para poder realizar una implementacion de los productos es muy compleja y esta muy ligada a la infraestrcutura VMWARE. Reason for choosing VMware Tanzu En este caso se solicito por parte de un cliente por esa razon se procedio con la implementacion. Review Source VV Vijaya V. Lead software engineer Banking Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Tanzu a programmer friendly solution " August 29, 2023 4.0 A solution that is reliable and maintained with ease, we are overall a happy customer. Pros Tanzu encapsulates Containerized solutions tailored to for programmer needs. The ease of operation and thorough release management gives sense of reliability. Cons Autosys, autoscaling, blue- green deployments have been challenging and not consistent to be used by our customers. Review Source OD Osman D. Senior Sofware Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "VMware-Tanzu\_01" July 25, 2022 5.0 Somebody who wants to use it should take a training by expert who knows it well. Pros VMware Tanzu helps to run and manage multiple K8S cluster. Cons It is complex and somebody who wants to use it take a trainning by expert who knows it well. Alternatives considered [OpenShift](https://www.capterra.com/p/176566/OpenShift/) Review Source SG Sushant G. Technical Consultant Computer Software Used the software for: 6-12 months ### ""Secured Container Orchestration Technology from VMware "" February 18, 2023 5.0 I am working with VMware products from 3-4 years. what they provide is surely helps organization to smoothly run their Infrastructure . VMware Tanzu is one of that products that helps your app virtualization technology work smoothly .It helps you deploy Apps with CI CD pipelines.It can easily monitor microservices . Pros it supports both public and private clouds. if you have existing VMware V-sphere environment then you can easily deploy this technology. support for Tanzu is also good from from VMware as this is new technology . Cons We have purchased only Tanzu license as we have existing setup with licensed product from VMware .But if you have deploy it from scratch then you need to buy all VMware Licenses. that is Costly in pricing .Small organization may get this prices high to setup.It is very complex to deploy , VMware Team helps you deploying the product. Review Source JG Jarosław G. Cloud Advocate Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Tanzu - make it easy" September 7, 2023 4.0 Pros The most valuable elements from Tanzu are easy to use and easy to integrate. Cons Tanzu is slide opinionated that can be taken by some developers as disadvantage Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Consultant Internet Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "Tanzu" August 29, 2023 4.0 Pros Mission Control and the policy engine + cli Cons Integration was going well, more labs or testing of the product would be nice Review Source MN Mariusz N. System Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Vsphere and Tanzu" August 29, 2023 5.0 Integration between virtualization and containers. Pros As using vSphere, integration with Tanzu was very easy for us. Cons As for now, I see no flaws or issues in Tanzu. Alternatives considered [Rancher](https://www.capterra.com/p/234842/Rancher/) Reason for choosing VMware Tanzu Because using vsphere already. Review Source Similar Products Featured