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Step 1: VMware Tanzu™ Community Edition cluster preparation

VMware Tanzu™ Community Edition consists of a variety of components that enable the bootstrapping and management of Kubernetes clusters.

The main components are:

In this step of the tutorial, we will prepare the installation of the TCE cluster.

Step 1.1: Install Tanzu CLI

Tanzu CLI can be installed on the three major operating systems (Linux, macOS and Windows).

Follow the instructions here to install Tanzu CLI selecting your operating system .

In order to check that Tanzu CLI is properly installed, run this in the command line:

tanzu version

And the output should be similar to this:

version: v0.11.4
buildDate: 2022-05-17
sha: a9b8f3a

Step 1.2: Choose the type of your cluster

As stated at the beginning of this document, Tanzu Community Edition allows to work with two different types of clusters: managed and unmanaged.

To continue the tutorial, you must decide which of the following mutually exclusive options suits your desired outcome:

  • Do you want a single node, local workstation cluster suitable for a development/test environment? If so, continue the tutorial by deploying an unmanaged cluster .

or

  • Do you want a full-featured, scalable Kubernetes implementation suitable for a development or production environment? If so, continue the tutorial by deploying an managed cluster .

If you want to know more about planning your deployment check out the official TCE documentation .

Getting started

Discover how to deploy Kubeapps in your cluster, add some package repositories and start managing your applications!