VMware recently announced the v0.3 beta release of TAP and introduced the new concept of profile. Profile is basically a collection of different packages those are installed in during TAP installation.
In the TAP v0.3 beta release, there are two types of profile:
- Full (
full) - Developer Light (
dev-light)
As the name suggests, “Full” profile is basically the one having all the packages installed during TAP installation, whereas, Developer profile will have limited number of packages installed.
See the different packages available in both profile:
| Component | Full | Developer Light |
| API Portal | ✓ | |
| Application Accelerator | ✓ | |
| App Live View | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cloud Native Runtimes | ✓ | ✓ |
| Convention Controller | ✓ | ✓ |
| Out of the Box Supply Chain – Basic | ✓ | ✓ |
| Out of the Box Supply Chain – Testing | ✓ | |
| Out of the Box Supply Chain – Testing and Scanning | ✓ | |
| Out of the Box Templates | ✓ | ✓ |
| Developer Conventions | ✓ | ✓ |
| Flux Source Controller | ✓ | ✓ |
| Grype | ✓ | |
| Image Policy Webhook | ✓ | ✓ |
| Learning Center | ✓ | |
| Services Toolkit | ✓ | ✓ |
| Service Bindings | ✓ | ✓ |
| Source Controller | ✓ | ✓ |
| Spring Boot Convention | ✓ | ✓ |
| Supply Chain Choreographer | ✓ | ✓ |
| Supply Chain Security Tools – Scan | ✓ | |
| Tanzu Build Service | ✓ | ✓ |
| Tanzu Application Platform GUI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Tekton | ✓ | ✓ |
I have wrote different blogs earlier to install older TAP version and in the next blogs, i will write about setting up TAP with different profile.
Here is the reference documentation:
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Tanzu-Application-Platform/0.3/tap-0-3/GUID-overview.html
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