Day 1 – installing and configuring Tanzu Application Platform
To install Tanzu Application Platform, we’ll need a few things in place first.
Prerequisites and technical requirements
In order to install and run Tanzu Application Platform, there are some technical prerequisites that must be in place. Here’s a list of what is required:
- A (large) Kubernetes cluster
The Tanzu Application Platform documentation lists several supported Kubernetes clusters, including Tanzu Kubernetes Grid and Minikube. However, to keep these instructions manageable, I’m going to recommend three public cloud Kubernetes clusters. These clusters are as follows:
- Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
- Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
There are a number of reasons for this. Here are a few:
- Easy out-of-the-box load balancer services. While we can make Tanzu Application Platform work with node ports, load...