Deployment details and configurations of Tanzu Application Platform Telemetry

Use this topic to learn the deployment details and configurations of your Tanzu Application Platform Telemetry (commonly known as TAP Telemetry).

What is deployed

The installation creates the following in your Kubernetes cluster:

• A deployment.
• A pod.
• A namespace tap-telemetry.
• A service account with read-write privileges named informer, and a corresponding secret for the service account. This secret is bound to a ClusterRole named tap-telemetry-admin.
• A Role tap-telemetry-informer to retrieve the deployment ID, which is sent as sender ID in heartbeat metrics.
• A RoleBinding tap-telemetry-informer-admin that binds the informer service account to the tap-telemetry-informer role.
• A ClusterRole tap-telemetry-admin that has access to each Tanzu Application Platform component to gather information from.
• A ClusterRoleBinding tap-telemetry-informer-admin that binds the informer service account to the tap-telemetry-informer cluster role.

Deployment configuration

customer_entitlement_account_number is the unique identifier to differentiate between the data from your cluster and the data from other clusters. You can configure this property in your tap-telemetry-values.yaml:

customer_entitlement_account_number: "12345"

It creates a config map named vmware-telemetry-identifiers in the vmware-system-telemetry namespace, which is used internally to log your information.

Repeat these steps for the Build, Run, and View Cluster. For more information, see Install multicluster Tanzu Application Platform profiles.