Install Tanzu Apps CLI plug-in

This topic tells you how to install the Tanzu Apps CLI plug-in on Tanzu Application Platform (commonly known as TAP).

Prerequisites

Ensure that you installed or updated the core Tanzu CLI. For more information, see Install Tanzu CLI.

Install Tanzu Apps CLI plug-in

From VMware Tanzu CLI

Install Tanzu Apps CLI:

tanzu plugin install apps --group vmware-tap/default:1.7.0

Verify that the plug-in is installed correctly:

tanzu apps version
# sample output
v0.12.1

From GitHub release:

The latest release is on the GitHub repository releases page.

Each of these releases has the Assets section where the packages for each system-architecture are placed.

1. Download the binary executable file tanzu-apps-plugin-{OS_ARCH}-{version}.tar.gz:

   tar -xvf tanzu-apps-plugin-darwin-amd64-v0.12.1.tar.gz
   

2. Run on macOS with plug-in version 0.12.1:

   tanzu plugin install apps \
   --local ./tanzu-apps-plugin-darwin-amd64-v0.12.1/darwin/amd64 \
   --version v0.12.1
   

Uninstalling Tanzu Apps CLI

Run:

tanzu plugin delete apps