community-edition VS kubermatic

"They have even abandoned their Tanzu community edition." https://tanzucommunityedition.io/

Actually it is free for non-commercial use in a vSphere env up to 100 cores. For public cloud I have no idea how do they count the licenses/cores but you can give a shoot with the TKG. The TKG replaces the TCE. https://tanzucommunityedition.io

You choose to run production workloads on the community edition?

e.g. https://tanzucommunityedition.io/ has some opinions about how to set things up but there's no support contract, so I'd view it as providing guidance or defaults that are likely to work for most use-cases, similar to "I want to make a web app but i'm not already an expert with years of production experience, so i'll use a framework like django/rails/spring/etc. instead of writing free-form from scratch"

Tanzu Community Edition (https://tanzucommunityedition.io/) with "unmanaged clusters" is a fully free + OSS solution for using the cluster and package management tools of vmware's Tanzu without being locked in to other parts of the vmware stack. I honestly don't know all the details but there's a way of buying a support contract also.

You can check out TCE https://tanzucommunityedition.io/ This helps to setup in a single click with UI based deployment

Making its cluster available for many flavors through its Community Edition called TCE (Tanzu Community Edition)

Might I sugest Tanzu? https://tanzucommunityedition.io/

Tanzu Community Edition also supports vSphere/AWS - https://tanzucommunityedition.io/

Hey vnadkarni! Would be great for you to join the community on the Kubernetes Slack. Questions can also be posted in the GitHub Issues or Discussions.

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Also, cloud-native operations are a way to build and run applications that give an advantage of scalability to the computing model. For teams using the pipeline as code, they can configure builds, and tests, and deploy in code that is trackable and stored in the same shared repository source code.

Check out kubermatic https://www.kubermatic.com/

The also have management layer (https://github.com/kubermatic/kubermatic) for multiple cloud environments which I did not try but look forward to it (probably comparable to rancher).