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
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.
- 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 Standard Package Repository Release Notes |
| Tanzu Application Platform Repository | tanzu-tap-repository |
TAP |
Packages installed and used by developers as an application development platform | Tanzu Application Platform Release Notes |
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 Application Catalog |
| Ops Manager tiles | Tanzu Application Service | Tanzu Ops Manager | Adding and deleting products from Tanzu Operations Manager |
