VMware Tanzu Community Edition is a full-featured, easy to manage Kubernetes platform for learners and users. It is a freely available, community supported, open source distribution of VMware Tanzu that can be installed and configured in minutes on your local workstation or your favorite cloud.
Tanzu Community Edition enables the creation of application platforms. Application platforms are infrastructure, tooling, and services that foster a viable location to run applications and enable positive developer experiences.
Tanzu Community Edition does this by leveraging Cluster API to provide declarative deployment and management of Kubernetes clusters. Kubernetes acts as the foundation in which we orchestrate workloads. With this foundation in place, Tanzu Community Edition enables the installation of platform packages that support applications running in clusters.
Tanzu Community Edition allows you to get bootstrapped by providing a set of opinionated building blocks. Additionally, it enables you to add or replace these with your own components. This flexibility enables you to produce application platforms that meet your unique requirements without having to start from scratch.
- Getting Started Guides
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To support our talk, then code approach, all implementation (both completed and intended) is captured in the following.
- Standalone Workload Clusters
- How standalone (no dedicated management cluster) workload clusters are bootstrapped.
- Tanzu Packaging Process
- Packaging methodology for packages in Tanzu Community Edition.
- Package and Repository Operations
- A guide for working with packages, assets, and repositories.
Packages provide the additional functionality necessary to build an application platform atop Kubernetes. We follow a modular approach in which operators building a platform can deploy the packages they need to fulfill their requirements.
| Name | Description | Documentation |
|---|---|---|
| Cert Manager | Provides certificate management provisioning within the cluster | Cert Manager package docs |
| Contour | Provides ingress support to workloads | Contour package docs |
| ExternalDNS | Provides discoverability of services via public DNS | ExternalDNS package docs |
| Harbor | Provides cloud native container registry service | Harbor package docs |
| Fluent-Bit | Log processor and forwarder | Fluent Bit package docs |
| Gatekeeper | Provides policy enforcement within clusters | Gatekeeper package docs |
| Grafana | Metrics visualization and analytics | Grafana package docs |
| Knative Serving | Provides serving functionality to clusters | knative serving package docs |
| Prometheus | Time series database for metrics. Includes AlertManager | Prometheus package docs |
| Velero | Provides disaster recovery capabilities | Velero package docs |
| Multus CNI | Provides ability for attaching multiple network interfaces to pods in Kubernetes | Multus CNI package docs |
Here's a demonstration of working with packages.
If you are ready to jump in and test, add code, or help with documentation, follow the instructions on our Contribution Guidelines to get started and at all times, follow our Code of Conduct.
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The following describes the key directories that make up this repository.
- addons/: our packages and package repos available to be installed in TCE clusters.
- packages/: software packages installable in TCE clusters.
- repos/: bundles of packages that can be installed in TCE clusters making all packages within available.
- cli/: plugins that add TCE-specific functionality to the
tanzuCLI- cmd/plugin/${PLUGIN_NAME}/: individual go module for each plugin, implemented in cobra
- docs/: documentation and our hugo-based website
- hack/: scripts used for development and build processes