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VMware Tanzu Community Edition is a full-featured, easy-to-manage Tanzu platform for learners and users, especially those working in small-scale or preproduction environments
VMware Tanzu Community Edition is a full-featured, easy-to-manage Tanzu platform for learners and users. It is a freely available, community supported, open source distribution of VMware Tanzu that can be installed and configured in minutes on your local workstation or your favorite cloud.
Tanzu Community Edition is for anyone who would like to learn about, evaluate, or use Tanzu software in a community-supported environment. Whether you need to build practical cloud native skills, run a Kubernetes proof-of-concept, do inner loop development work on your local workstation, or simply explore on your own, Tanzu Community Edition could be the perfect starting point for you.
Tanzu Community Edition makes it easier to overcome the most common barriers to learning and using Kubernetes: availability and access to a Kubernetes platform, cost, and Kubernetes complexity.
With Tanzu Community Edition you can:
Take on new challenges confidently with a proven, enterprise-grade Tanzu platform that can address your immediate needs, as well as the increasingly complex problems you are likely to encounter later, as your needs evolve.
Wherever the future takes you, the knowledge, skills, and artifacts you develop with Tanzu Community Edition can go with you, and are fully transferable to Tanzu commercial offerings.
Explore Kubernetes and Tanzu independently with no cost, open source software that is unencumbered by usage limitations or functional restrictions. You can download it freely, without providing any personally identifiable information.
And to help you get through that steep Kubernetes learning curve, you also get free access to top-notch education and training resources as well as community support backed by committed and knowledgeable experts.
Get up and running quickly using readily available infrastructure.
You can install and configure a fully functional cluster, customized to your needs, in minutes and you can run it on vSphere, in a public cloud, or even on your local workstation.
Yes. Tanzu Community Edition is intended to provide a rich Tanzu experience that encompasses all of the open source based capabilities delivered across the Tanzu portfolio. As new open source based capabilities are introduced to the Tanzu platform, we expect them to be delivered as part of Tanzu Community Edition. For example, open source features offered in Tanzu Application Platform are now being added into Tanzu Community Edition.
Tanzu Community Edition is open source software that doesn't cost you anything and can be used to get started with the Tanzu Platform. Unlike free trials offered by most vendors, Tanzu Community Edition is unencumbered by expiration, scaling restrictions, or functional limitations, and you can download it without engaging sales or marketing teams.
You'll find a welcoming community ready to help you be successful with Tanzu Community Edition at tanzucommunityedition.io. Join the community to learn from knowledgeable experts who can answer your questions and deepen your understanding. You can even engage directly with Tanzu developers if you want to dig deep into Tanzu technology or help guide its future direction.