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VMware is offering a free download of VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid in place of VMware Tanzu Community Edition software and is retiring Tanzu Community Edition. Use Tanzu Kubernetes Grid for free in non-commercial environments up to 100 cores.

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Frequently Asked Questions

: Acting on insights gained through community engagement over the past year, VMware has decided to offer a free download of VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid in place of VMware Tanzu Community Edition software and to retire the Tanzu Community Edition open source project. Users can download Tanzu Kubernetes Grid here.
: Cloud native practitioners value free and easy access to a version of Tanzu software with which they can experiment and explore. Tanzu Kubernetes Grid, available as a free download, offers a conformant Kubernetes runtime solution built on open source, offers capabilities similar to Tanzu Community Edition, and provides a frictionless upgrade path to commercial Tanzu offerings.
: No. Building open source software and contributing to the community is central to VMware’s engineering and innovation. VMware continues to develop and open source new technologies, contribute to existing open source projects, and leverage many of them in the Tanzu platform. More information about VMware open source initiatives can be found here.
: Freely available Tanzu Kubernetes Grid has replaced Tanzu Community Edition for anyone wanting to learn about, evaluate, or use Tanzu runtime for non-commercial use up to 100 core environments. Interested users can download Tanzu Kubernetes Grid and take advantage of the many free resources available to them like Tanzu Developer Center and Tanzu Tech Zone, which include informative articles, guides, videos, samples, workshops, and more.
: The Tanzu Community Edition open source project will be retired by the end of this calendar year (Dec 2022). Over the coming weeks, the Tanzu Community Edition GitHub project will have all Tanzu Community Edition-specific code (not open source packages from other projects) removed, and the Tanzu Community Edition Slack channel will be archived.
: Yes. All of the software that had been offered with Tanzu Community Edition is open source, freely available from upstream project sites and repositories and can be used with Tanzu Kubernetes Grid. Find a visual catalog of these technologies above.
: No. VMware recognizes that Tanzu’s strength is in providing advanced multi-cloud and multi-cluster capabilities and that our role in the community must be to add value there rather than targeting simpler environments already well served by existing solutions such as Minikube and KinD.