Tanzu Application Platform: Installation

This lesson provides a brief overview of the course. It covers the target audience and prerequisite skills needed.

The lab environment for this course is provided using a system called Strigo.

In this first lab you will familiarize yourself with the environment and then create and configure a Kubernetes cluster on to which you will later install Tanzu Application Platform.

As well as the cluster, you will also install a private container registry using Harbor.

This video introduces the core tools that will be used to install Tanzu Application Platform.

In particular, if you are not already familiar with the tools in the Carvel tool suite, it describes the purpose and use of the kapp and kapp-controller tools.

In this lab you will put in place the core tooling and components that you need in order to be able to install Tanzu Application Platform.

You will also familiarize yourself with the tools and examine the components installed on to the cluster.

After this lab you should be able to:

• Recall where to find Tanzu Application Platform installation documentation
• Navigate the VMware Tanzu Network site
• Explain how to obtain pre-requisite software for a Tanzu Application Platform installation
• Use the pivnet command to download software from VMware Tanzu Network
• Perform the installation of the "Cluster Essentials" package
• Employ the kapp command-line tool to deploy and troubleshoot applications
• Describe the role of kapp-controller in deploying applications
• Interpret messages from kapp and kapp-controller
• Describe the role of other Carvel tools

This video introduces the software package mechanism used to install Tanzu Application Platform. This originates from the Carvel toolset and underlies the tanzu command-line interface.

This lesson introduces the concept of Tanzu Application Platform (TAP) "profiles" and how to use them while installing the product. It also discuss the TAP meta-package, and how to create a configuration values file for either a default TAP installation or custom TAP installation. It also briefly touches upon troubleshooting TAP installations using profiles.

This video introduces the next lab, and the steps culminating in the Tanzu Application Platform package installation.

In this lab you will install the Tanzu Application Platform (TAP) on the Kubernetes cluster you previously created. By the end of the lab you will have a TAP installation up and running.

This lesson introduces the Tanzu Application Platform Graphical User Interface or TAP-GUI. It discuss some of the main features of TAP-GUI. This includes the Software Catalog and a number of "plugins" such as Application Live View, Accelerators and the Supply Chain viewer. It also introduce some of the key concepts and terms used within TAP-GUI.

This video introduces the next lab and discusses, at a high level, what happens when you run a workload on Tanzu Application Platform. This includes the role of Cartographer in choreographing supply chain actions and Knative in running scalable applications.

In this lab you will deploy an application workload on Tanzu Application Platform (TAP) using the tanzu CLI. Once deployed, you will be able to monitor the application using the TAP GUI.