Install External Secrets Operator in Tanzu Application Platform

This topic tells you how to install the External Secrets Operator from the Tanzu Application Platform (commonly known as TAP) package repository.

Important

External Secrets Operator is not included or installed with any Tanzu Application Platform profile.

Prerequisites

Before installing External Secrets Operator:

• Complete all prerequisites to install the Tanzu Application Platform. For more information, see Prerequisites.

Install

To install External Secrets Operator:

1. List version information for the package by running:

   tanzu package available list external-secrets.apps.tanzu.vmware.com -n tap-install
   

   For example:

   NAME                                    VERSION      RELEASED-AT
   external-secrets.apps.tanzu.vmware.com  0.6.1+tap.6  2023-03-08 14:00:00 -0500 EST
   

2. Install the package:

   tanzu package install external-secrets \
    --package external-secrets.apps.tanzu.vmware.com \
    --version VERSION-NUMBER \
    --namespace tap-install
   

   Where VERSION-NUMBER is the version of the package listed in step 1.

   For example:

   $ tanzu package install external-secrets \
      --package external-secrets.apps.tanzu.vmware.com \
      --version 0.6.1+tap.6 \
      --namespace tap-install
   
   \ Installing package 'external-secrets.apps.tanzu.vmware.com'
   | Getting package metadata for 'external-secrets.apps.tanzu.vmware.com'
   | Creating service account 'external-secrets-tap-install-sa'
   / Creating cluster admin role 'external-secrets-tap-install-cluster-role'
   | Creating cluster role binding 'external-secrets-tap-install-cluster-rolebindin
   / Creating cluster role binding 'external-secrets-tap-install-cluster-rolebindin
   \ Creating cluster role binding 'external-secrets-tap-install-cluster-rolebindin
   | Creating cluster role binding 'external-secrets-tap-install-cluster-rolebinding'
   \ Creating package resource
   Waiting for 'PackageInstall' reconciliation for 'external-secrets'
   'PackageInstall' resource install status: Reconciling
   'PackageInstall' resource install status: ReconcileSucceeded
   
   Added installed package 'external-secrets'
   

3. Verify the package installation by running:

   tanzu package installed get external-secrets \
   --namespace tap-install
   

   For example:

   tanzu package installed get external-secrets -n tap-install
   
   NAME:                    external-secrets
   PACKAGE-NAME:            external-secrets.apps.tanzu.vmware.com
   PACKAGE-VERSION:         0.6.1+tap.6
   STATUS:                  Reconcile succeeded
   CONDITIONS:              [{ReconcileSucceeded True  }]
   USEFUL-ERROR-MESSAGE: