VMware Tanzu packages let you use Tanzu console interfaces and the Tanzu CLI to add and manage services on Kubernetes clusters.
Tanzu packages use open-source Carvel tools to standardize and simplify how you deploy and manage popular services with Tanzu.
You can install Tanzu packages to:
- Make services available to apps hosted on Kubernetes workload clusters, to help developers
- Install platform services such as platform monitoring, to help platform operators
Documentation
For general documentation about Tanzu Packages, see Installing and Using VMware Tanzu Packages. The relevant packages and package procedures differ for different facets of Tanzu:
- TKG
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In Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG), on all platforms, you install and manage packages using the Tanzu CLI or Kubectl, as described in this publication.
To associate TKG versions with versions of the Tanzu Standard package repository that they work with, see TKG, Tanzu CLI Plugin, and Tanzu Standard Package Repo Versions in the About TKG documentation.
- TMC
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To install packages from the Tanzu Mission Control (TMC) console see Install a Package in the TMC documentation.
- TAP
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To install the packages that constitute Tanzu Application Platform (TAP) see Install Tanzu Application Platform package and profiles in the TAP documentation.
Package Repositories
VMware maintains repositories that publish versioned, VMware-supported Tanzu packages:
| Package Repository | Name in CLI | Mainly Used with |
Contents | Release Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzu Standard Repository | tanzu-standard |
TKG, TMC |
Packages installed by platform operators for use by both platform operators and developers. | |
| Tanzu Application Platform Repository | tanzu-tap-repository |
TAP |
Packages installed and used by developers as an application development platform |
Tanzu Packages as a Deployment Option
Tanzu packages are one of several options for deploying services in Tanzu:
| Deployment option | Deploys to | How deployed | Documentation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tanzu packages | Tanzu-managed K8s clusters | TMC, Tanzu CLI, Kubectl | See above |
| Supervisor Services | K8s clusters on vSphere | vCenter | Managing Supervisor Services with vSphere with Tanzu |
| Container images | K8s clusters | Helm CLI | VMware Tanzu Application Catalog |
| Ops Manager tiles | Tanzu Application Service | Tanzu Ops Manager | Adding and deleting products from Tanzu Operations Manager |
