Overview of Tanzu Developer Tools for VS Code

VMware Tanzu Developer Tools for Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is the official VMware Tanzu IDE extension for VS Code. The extension helps you develop with Tanzu Application Platform and enables you to rapidly iterate on your workloads on supported Kubernetes clusters that have Tanzu Application Platform installed.

Tanzu Developer Tools for VS Code currently supports VS Code on macOS and Windows OS for Java applications.

Extension features

The extension has the following features:

• Deploy applications directly from VS Code:

  Rapidly iterate on your applications on Tanzu Application Platform by deploying them as workloads directly from within VS Code.

• See code updates running on-cluster in seconds:

  With Live Update (facilitated by Tilt), you can deploy your workload once, save changes to the code and then see those changes reflected within seconds in the workload running on the cluster.

• Debug workloads directly on the cluster:

  Debug your application in a production-like environment by debugging on your Kubernetes cluster that has Tanzu Application Platform. An environment’s similarity to production relies on keeping dependencies and other variables updated.

• See workloads running on the cluster:

  From the Tanzu Workloads panel you can see any workload found within the cluster and namespace specified in the current kubectl context.

Note

The new variation of Out of the Box (OOTB) Basic supply chains, which outputs Carvel packages to enable configuring multiple runtime environments, is not currently supported. For more information about the variation, see Carvel Package Supply Chains.