VMware Tanzu Platform provides a complete portfolio of application creation, development, deployment, and management functionality across both Cloud Foundry foundations and Kubernetes clusters. The tables in this topic describe where to find the documentation for the different Tanzu Platform components.
Get started with Tanzu Platform
The Tanzu Platform UI and Tanzu CLI are the means by which you interact with Tanzu Platform and access its functionality.
| What do you want to do? | Documentation |
|---|---|
| Plan your Tanzu Platform Self-Managed deployment. | See the Tanzu Platform Self-Managed on vSphere - Dual-Site Reference Design documentation. |
| Install Tanzu Platform Self-Managed. | See Install and Run VMware Tanzu Platform Self-Managed in this documentation. |
| Learn how to use the Tanzu Platform UI and Tanzu CLI to discover, monitor, and manage applications running on both Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes, and to create a development and deployment environment for Kubernetes applications. | See Where to begin in this documentation. |
| Learn how to use Tanzu Platform to deploy apps on Kubernetes. | See Create and manage Kubernetes Spaces in this documentation. |
Tanzu Platform for Cloud Foundry ecosystem
Tanzu Platform for Cloud Foundry provides one of the runtimes for Tanzu Platform. You install and set up Tanzu Platform for Cloud Foundry by using Tanzu Operations Manager, before attaching it to the Tanzu Platform UI for monitoring and management.
| What do you want to do? | Documentation |
|---|---|
| Deploy, expand, and manage Tanzu Platform for Cloud Foundry. | See the Tanzu Operations Manager introduction. |
| Set up and use Tanzu Platform for Cloud Foundry. | See Tanzu Platform for Cloud Foundry overview. |
| Deploy applications to your Tanzu Platform for Cloud Foundry deployment as Tanzu Operations Manager tiles. | See the Tanzu Platform Services documentation. |
| Install Tanzu Platform on a Tanzu Platform for Cloud Foundry and BOSH foundation, as a Tanzu Operations Manager tile. | See the Tanzu Platform Tile Installation (beta) documentation. |
| Build, scale, and monitor pipelines outside of your Tanzu Operations Manager deployment, and set up production pipelines to deploy and manage your apps in real time. | See the Concourse for VMware Tanzu documentation. |
| Create repeatable and reusable automated pipelines for upgrading and installing Tanzu Platform for Cloud Foundry foundations. | See the Platform Automation Toolkit for VMware Tanzu overview. |
Tanzu Platform database and messaging services
Applications that you create and manage in Tanzu Platform can benefit from database and messaging services provided by the Tanzu Platform data services components.
| What do you want to do? | Documentation |
|---|---|
| Provision and use dedicated instances of MySQL database on demand in your applications and application development environment. | See the VMware Tanzu for MySQL on Cloud Foundry and VMware Tanzu for MySQL on Kubernetes documentation. |
| Provision and use dedicated instances of Postgres database on demand in your applications and application development environment. | See VMware Tanzu for Postgres on Cloud Foundry and VMware Tanzu for Postgres on Kubernetes documentation. |
| Set up a key-value store to use as a database, cache, and message broker for your applications and application development environment. | See the VMware Tanzu for Valkey on Cloud Foundry and VMware Tanzu for Valkey on Kubernetes documentation. |
| Implement a cloud native message and streaming service for your applications and application development environment. | See VMware Tanzu RabbitMQ on Cloud Foundry and VMware Tanzu RabbitMQ on Kubernetes documentation. |
Additional Tanzu learning resources
To complement the Tanzu user documentation, VMware by Broadcom provides additional informative and educational resources about VMware Tanzu and modern applications.
- Tanzu product page: Visit the Tanzu Platform home page for blogs, solution briefs, testimonials, FAQs, and demos, and to find out more about the capabilities of the Tanzu portfolio.
- Tanzu Labs: Tanzu Labs partners side-by-side with customers to accelerate the software delivery and app modernizing with Tanzu products.
- Tanzu Academy: Tanzu Academy is an on-demand, comprehensive learning center for platform and app operators to become experts at achieving outcomes with VMware Tanzu products.
- Spring Academy:Spring Academy provides app developers with a hands-on learning materials and courses to allow them to create robust, scalable, and maintainable Spring apps.
- Kube Academy: Kube Academy is a free resource that teaches you everything that you need to know to get started with Kubernetes.
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