VMware released Tanzu Application Platform (TAP) v1.1 few weeks back and there are many new features in it. One of the important feature is additional profiles. If you have looked at TAP 1.0, there was mainly two profiles i.e. full
and light
but in this release, light
profile is going away and four more profile is introduced.
Following are the NEW profiles in TAP 1.1:
- Iterate
- Run
- Build
- View
TAP 1.1 High Level Arch Overview

TAP 1.1 Profiles
Tanzu Application Platform v1.1 contains the following five profiles. You can understand the different component involved in each profiles
Capability Name | Full | Iterate | Build | Run | View |
API Portal | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Application Accelerator | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Application Live View (Build) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Application Live View (Run) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Application Live View (GUI) | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Cloud Native Runtimes | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Convention Controller | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Default Roles | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Developer Conventions | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Flux Source Controller | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Grype | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Image Policy Webhook | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Learning Center | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Out of the Box Delivery – Basic | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
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 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Service Bindings | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Services Toolkit | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Source Controller | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Spring Boot Convention | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Supply Chain Choreographer | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Supply Chain Security Tools – Scan | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Supply Chain Security Tools – Store | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Tanzu Build Service | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Tanzu Application Platform GUI | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Tekton Pipelines | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Telemetry | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
If you would like to install TAP 1.1 on a multicluster environment, Here is the blog post that you can refer to.