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Tanzu Field Notes

Cloud Foundry, Tanzu Platform, Elastic Application Runtime, TAS, AI Services, MCP gateways, and the platform work that shows up after the install.

Build Custom Claude Apps on Tanzu Platform preview image

Build Custom Claude Apps on Tanzu Platform

Wrap the Claude Agent SDK in a small Cloud Foundry service and call it from your apps and pipelines — a code reviewer, an incident triager, a chat UI — with the worker running near your internal systems.

Why Run Claude Agents on Tanzu Platform? preview image

Why Run Claude Agents on Tanzu Platform?

The model call can stay with Anthropic, Bedrock, or Vertex. The agent harness is the part you get to place. Here's why Tanzu Platform is a natural runtime for Claude agents.

Secure MCP Servers on Tanzu Platform preview image

Secure MCP Servers on Tanzu Platform

Stand up the Tanzu Platform 10.4 MCP gateway, federate two MCP servers behind it, and bind each gateway path to your AI agent as a tagged MCP service.

Deploying Gemma 4 31B on Tanzu AI Services preview image

Deploying Gemma 4 31B on Tanzu AI Services

A complete recipe for adding Gemma 4 31B (multimodal) as a vLLM model on the Tanzu AI Services tile — fields, the single-GPU Blackwell setup, and the performance numbers you'll see.

Deploying GPT-OSS-120B on Tanzu AI Services preview image

Deploying GPT-OSS-120B on Tanzu AI Services

A complete recipe for adding GPT-OSS-120B as a vLLM model on the Tanzu AI Services tile — fields, MoE tunings, and the performance numbers you'll see on a 4× RTX 3090 worker.

Deploying Qwen3.5-27B on Tanzu AI Services preview image

Deploying Qwen3.5-27B on Tanzu AI Services

A complete recipe for adding Qwen3.5-27B as a vLLM model on the Tanzu AI Services tile — fields, chat template, tunings, and the performance numbers you'll see.

Block Storage on Tanzu Platform: A Big Unlock for Developers preview image

Block Storage on Tanzu Platform: A Big Unlock for Developers

A platform-engineer's recipe for enabling block storage on Tanzu Platform 10.4 with the Elastic Application Runtime tile — unlocking stateful workloads that need persistent disk and were previously hard to land on the platform.