Install Service Bindings

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

Note

Follow the steps in this topic if you do not want to use a profile to install Service Bindings. For more information about profiles, see Components and installation profiles.

Prerequisites

Before installing Service Bindings:

• Complete all prerequisites to install Tanzu Application Platform (commonly knows as TAP). For more information, see Prerequisites.

Install Service Bindings

Use the following procedure to install Service Bindings:

1. List version information for the package by running:

   tanzu package available list servicebinding.tanzu.vmware.com --namespace tap-install
   

   For example:

   $ tanzu package available list servicebinding.tanzu.vmware.com --namespace tap-install
   - Retrieving package versions for servicebinding.tanzu.vmware.com...
     NAME                              VERSION  RELEASED-AT
     servicebinding.tanzu.vmware.com   0.10.3   2023-12-05T08:26:41Z
   

2. Install the package by running:

   tanzu package install service-bindings -p servicebinding.tanzu.vmware.com  -v 0.10.3 -n tap-install
   

   Example output:

   / Installing package 'servicebinding.tanzu.vmware.com'
   | Getting namespace 'tap-install'
   - Getting package metadata for 'servicebinding.tanzu.vmware.com'
   | Creating service account 'service-bindings-tap-install-sa'
   | Creating cluster admin role 'service-bindings-tap-install-cluster-role'
   | Creating cluster role binding 'service-bindings-tap-install-cluster-rolebinding'
   \ Creating package resource
   | Package install status: Reconciling
   
    Added installed package 'service-bindings' in namespace 'tap-install'
   

3. Verify the package install by running:

   tanzu package installed get service-bindings -n tap-install
   

   Example output:

   - Retrieving installation details for service-bindings...
   NAME:                    service-bindings
   PACKAGE-NAME:            servicebinding.tanzu.vmware.com
   PACKAGE-VERSION:         0.10.3
   STATUS:                  Reconcile succeeded
   CONDITIONS:              [{ReconcileSucceeded True  }]
   USEFUL-ERROR-MESSAGE:
   

4. Run the following command:

   kubectl get pods -n service-bindings
   

   For example:

   $ kubectl get pods -n service-bindings
   NAME                                                 READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
   servicebinding-controller-manager-7856497ddd-bmgv2   1/1     Running   0          5m59s
   

   Verify that STATUS is Running