We are delighted to present version v0.12.1 of Tanzu Community Edition. We look forward to you downloading it, installing it, using it, and opening issues in this repository if you encounter any problems or have ideas on building an even better experience.

For information about our user community resources, visit our project landing site.

A big thank you to everyone who contributed to the release!

Significant Changes

• Fixes logging in unmanaged cluster such that certain log messages are increased for visibility and others are supressed to reduce noise. This was needed in order to surface problems for debugging. Please see: #4517
• Various documentation fixes

Known Issues

• A race condition exists within TCE when creating CAPD clusters. In some cases, creation of a CAPD cluster will fail as several components of the cluster reach a state where they are waiting on each other to complete. To work around this issue, delete the cluster and try again.

Deprecation & Removal Notices

Since we are currently shipping versions pre-v1.0.0, backward compatibility with prior releases is best effort at this time. This is a notice that prior releases may not function as intended.

Upgrading the CLI (Client Binaries Only)

Download the latest release, and run the install.sh / install.bat script within the package.

Full Changelog From Latest Minor Release

Can be found here: v0.12.0...v0.12.1

We are delighted to present version v0.12.0 of Tanzu Community Edition!

This release is focused on improving the local developer experience, spanning both the environment in which this experience happens, and the applications that this experience happens with. As such, most enhancements revolve around the unmanaged cluster functionality and app toolkit.

We look forward to you downloading, installing, using and opening issues in this repository if you encounter any problems or have ideas on building an even better experience.

For information about our user community resources, visit our project landing site.

A big thank you to everyone who contributed to the release!

Major Changes

Enhancing Local Cluster Creation

• Unmanaged clusters can now be created on minikube, in addition to Kind.
• Dynamic TKr (Tanzu Kubernetes release) resolution lets the TCE team ship updates to TKrs without "re-releasing" TCE, ensuring the validity/compatibility of those.
• Hooks to start and stop unmanaged clusters to save resources on the developer's machine.

Simplifying Developer Environment Setup

• New --install-packages flag enables packages (and collections of packages!) to be pre-installed in an unmanaged cluster during setup.
• New version of app-toolkit package includes kpack-dependencies and cartographer-catalog packages and a feature to setup the default namespace with the required service account, role and role-binding to create Tanzu workloads with App-Toolkit.

Enabling Tanzu Workload Creation

• apps Tanzu CLI Plugin (alpha release) gets installed as part of the TCE to interact with Tanzu workloads with commands such as create, get, tail and delete.
• New kpack-dependencies package sets up the resources (ClusterStack, ClusterBase and ClusterBuilder) to create images from source code in a git repo.
• New cartographer-catalog package provides a supply chain that can go from the source code in a Git repo to a running knative service in the same cluster.

Other Notable Improvements

• Under-the-hood improvements to unmanaged clusters for robustness and stability (e.g. unit tests).

Package Updates

Here are some general enhancements to packages within Tanzu Community Edition:

• cartographer 0.3.0
• cert-manager 1.5.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.2, 1.8.0
• fluxcd-kustomize-controller 0.21.1
• kpack-dependencies 0.0.9
• local-path-storage version: 0.0.22
• whereabouts 0.5.1

Known Issues

• A race condition exists within TCE when creating CAPD clusters. In some cases, creation of a CAPD cluster will fail as several components of the cluster reach a state where they are waiting on each other to complete. To work around this issue, delete the cluster and try again.

Deprecation & Removal Notices

Since we are currently shipping versions pre-v1.0.0, backward compatibility with prior releases is best effort at this time. This is a notice that prior releases may not function as intended.

Upgrading the CLI (Client Binaries Only)

Download the latest release, and run the install.sh / install.bat script within the package.

Full Changelog From Latest Minor Release

Can be found here: v0.11.0...v0.12.0

We are delighted to present version v0.12.0 of Tanzu Community Edition!

This release is focused on improving the local developer experience, spanning both the environment in which this experience happens, and the applications that this experience happens with. As such, most enhancements revolve around the unmanaged cluster functionality and app toolkit.

We look forward to you downloading, installing, using and opening issues in this repository if you encounter any problems or have ideas on building an even better experience.

For information about our user community resources, visit our project landing site.

A big thank you to everyone who contributed to the release!

Major Changes

Enhancing Local Cluster Creation

• Unmanaged clusters can now be created on minikube, in addition to Kind.
• Dynamic TKr (Tanzu Kubernetes release) resolution lets the TCE team ship updates to TKrs without "re-releasing" TCE, ensuring the validity/compatibility of those.
• Hooks to start and stop unmanaged clusters to save resources on the developer's machine.

Simplifying Developer Environment Setup

• New --install-packages flag enables packages (and collections of packages!) to be pre-installed in an unmanaged cluster during setup.

Enabling Tanzu Workload Creation

• apps Tanzu CLI Plugin (alpha release) gets installed as part of the TCE to interact with Tanzu workloads with commands such as create, get, tail and delete.

• New kpack-dependencies package sets up the resources (ClusterStack, ClusterBase and ClusterBuilder) to create images from source code in a git repo.

Other Notable Improvements

• Under-the-hood improvements to unmanaged clusters for robustness and stability (e.g. unit tests).

Package Updates

Here are some general enhancements to packages within Tanzu Community Edition:

• cartographer 0.3.0
• cert-manager 1.5.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.2, 1.8.0
• fluxcd-kustomize-controller 0.21.1
• kpack-dependencies 0.0.9
• local-path-storage version: 0.0.22
• whereabouts 0.5.1

Known Issues

• A race condition exists within TCE when creating CAPD clusters. In some cases, creation of a CAPD cluster will fail as several components of the cluster reach a state where they are waiting on each other to complete. To work around this issue, delete the cluster and try again.

We are delighted to present version v0.11.0 of Tanzu Community Edition. We look forward to you downloading it, installing it, using it, and opening issues in this repository if you encounter any problems or have ideas on building an even better experience.

For information about our user community resources, visit our project landing site.

A big thank you to everyone who contributed to the release!

Major Changes

Tanzu Mission Control (TMC) and TCE Compatibility

For the TCE v0.11.0 release, management clusters now are able to be registered to TMC.

Experimental Arm Support For Unmanaged Clusters

Experimental support for Darwin ARM (Apple M1) on unmanaged clusters is implemented in limited form. WARNING: For this experimental version only Calico CNI is supported (not Antrea), and the following packages are known to NOT include ARM images: External-dns, Cartographer, cert-injection webhook, Grafana, Harbor, whereabouts, prometheus, and kpack.

Enhancements to unmanaged-cluster Plugin

Additional enhancements to the Unmanaged Cluster Plugin (Alpha release). Changes include:

• users can provide their own kind config which enables deeper customization for the kind provider
• unmanaged-cluster diagnostics collection
• allowing users to set number of nodes for unmanaged-clusters
• meaningful exit codes for create unmanaged cluster
• saving kind config during cluster creation for unmanaged-cluster creation
• has additional general goodness all around 😀

Experimental Application Toolkit Package

Experimental Application Toolkit Package enables the below capabilities:

• Enables users to install a set of application lifecycle related packages together with a single command and single configuration file
• Enables users to create tanzu workloads from their source code in a github repo

This is an experimental package, and we would love to get your feedback on the feature.

Known Issues

• A race condition exists within TCE when creating CAPD clusters. In some cases, creation of a CAPD cluster will fail as several components of the cluster reach a state where they are waiting on each other to complete. To work around this issue, delete the cluster and try again.

Deprecation & Removal Notices

Since we are currently shipping versions pre-v1.0.0, backward compatibility with prior releases is best effort at this time. This is a notice that prior releases may not function as intended.

Removal Notice

standalone-cluster has been deprecated in v0.10.0 and removed from the source tree in this v0.11.0 release.

Upgrading the CLI (Client Binaries Only)

Download the latest release, and run the install.sh / install.bat script within the package.

Full Changelog From Latest Minor Release

Can be found here: v0.10.0...v0.11.0