Additional resources for Tanzu Build Service

This topic provides you with the additional resources for Tanzu Build Service (commonly known as TBS).

Concourse Kpack resource

The Concourse Kpack resource helps in the integration of Kpack in a Concourse based CI/CD pipeline. This Concourse resource is capable of triggering Image builds based on a commit SHA. The Git repo for the Concourse Kpack resource provides guidance on usage within a pipeline.

Note: The Kpack Image must be created within a TBS cluster before referring to it within a pipeline using the Concourse Kpack resource

Note: The Concourse Kpack resource currently only supports GKE and TKGI clusters

Helpful Articles

• Getting Started with VMware Tanzu Build Service 1.0

  (September 03, 2020 - Tony Vetter)

  This covers installation of Tanzu Build Service on local Kubernetes cluster (using Docker Desktop) and demonstrates the auto build of app images for Code and OS updates.

• VMware Tanzu Build Service, a Kubernetes-Native Way to Build Containers, Is Now GA

  (September 03, 2020 - Brad Bock)

  A big picture overview of Tanzu Build Service, integration with CI/CD and links on getting started.

Helpful Videos

• Introduction to Tanzu Build Service 1.0

  (September 22, 2020 - Tony Vetter)

  This covers the different components of TBS, the benefits it offers, and a demo of how TBS can auto update your application images for different reasons - Code update, Config change or Stack update.

Helpful Repositories

• kpdemo - https://github.com/matthewmcnew/kpdemo

  A tool to visualize and demo kpack.

  Demos include auto Image creation for Stack and Buildpack updates.