Neil Winton

Neil Winton is a Staff Solution Architect within the VMware Tanzu Learning team. He has more than 35 years’ experience within the software industry and, although he has always been a software developer at heart, most recently he has enjoyed helping people to learn about cloud-native technologies and applications.

Courses Contributed

Beginner

Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations: Preparation and Prerequisites - MOVED TO tanzu.academy

This Course Has Moved

This course is now available on Tanzu Academy along with more Tanzu related content. Please visit the course on Tanzu Academy at https://tanzu.academy/courses/tko-preparation-and-prerequisites

Overview

This is the first course of the Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations (TKO) learning path. Therefore the theme of the material presented here, and where to go after this course, assumes you're working towards the goal of deploying and using TKO.

Part of a learning path

Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations

0 Lessons 0:00

Intermediate

Kubernetes Platform Design

Through a series of lecture chapters and lab exercises, this course will talk about the typical platform addons that are not part of basic Kubernetes. System administrators and Cluster Operators will learn the skills of operating an existing built cluster.

Part of a learning path

Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations

4:19:49

Applications Intermediate

Tanzu Application Platform: Installation - MOVED TO tanzu.academy

This Course Has Moved

This course is now available on Tanzu Academy along with more Tanzu related content. Please visit the course on Tanzu Academy at https://tanzu.academy/courses/deploy-tko-reference-architecture

Overview

This course will take you through the steps of installing and configuring a basic installation of Tanzu Application Platform.

At the end of the course you should be able to:

Recall where to find, and be able to use the Tanzu Application Platform documentation
List the pre-requisites for an installation of Tanzu Application Platform
Describe the overall installation process
Obtain and install software from the VMware Tanzu Network
Practice using some of the Carvel tools and the Tanzu CLI
Configure and deploy a basic Tanzu Application Platform instance
Navigate the Tanzu Application Platform web interface
Perform basic troubleshooting of an installation
Deploy a simple application on to the installed platform

Part of a learning path

Tanzu Application Platform for Operators

0:00

About

Neil joined VMware (in fact, Pivotal, before its later acquisition) in 2018, moving into education after more than 30 years spent working in software engineering in telecoms and finance. During that time he has he has managed teams, run critical operational systems, contributed to international standards and led software engineering communities of practice. He has worked on everything from low-level UNIX kernel development to multi-national distributed systems management, tackled sprawling legacy codebases of millions of lines, and encouraged and celebrated highly productive, truly agile teams.

Computing technology has changed immensely over Neil’s career, from the days of mainframes and dial-up networking to ubiquitous connectivity and hyper-scale clouds. He continues to relish the challenge of learning and problem solving, using the latest technologies, tools and techniques that become available. But software has always been, and continues to be, a “people” business and Neil loves helping other people to learn, grow and develop — both within a work setting and outside.