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VMware Tanzu™ Community Edition (TCE) is a full-featured, easy-to-manage Kubernetes 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.

Kubeapps provides a cloud native dashboard to deploy, manage, and upgrade applications on a Kubernetes cluster. It is a one-time install that gives you a number of important benefits, including the ability to:

• browse and deploy packaged applications from public or private repositories
• customize deployments through an intuitive user interface
• upgrade, manage and delete the applications that are deployed in your Kubernetes cluster
• expose an API to manage your package repositories and your applications

Kubeapps can be configured with public catalogs, such as the VMware Marketplace™ catalog, the Bitnami Application Catalog or with private Helm repositories such as ChartMuseum or Harbor. It also integrates with VMware Application Catalog , which provides an enterprise-ready Helm chart catalog.

This guide walks you through the process of configuring, deploying and using Kubeapps on a VMware Tanzu™ Community Edition cluster of your choice. It covers the following tasks:

• Selection and deployment of the appropriate TCE cluster type
• Configuring an identity management provider in the cluster
• Configuring access control in Kubeapps
• Deploying and configuring Kubeapps in the TCE cluster
• Management of applications through Kubeapps using the TCE catalog

This guide is intended for the following user roles:

• System administrators who want to install Kubeapps on a VMware Tanzu™ Community Edition cluster and use it to deploy and manage applications from any package repository.
• Application administrators and developers who want to use Kubeapps to deploy and manage modern applications in a Kubernetes environment.
• Any user willing to play around with Kubeapps and TCE

In-depth knowledge of Kubernetes is not required.

The tutorial is organized in the following sections:

1. TCE cluster deployment preparation
2. Deploying a managed cluster or Deploy an unmanaged cluster
3. Preparing the Kubeapps deployment
4. Deploying Kubeapps
5. Further documentation for managing applications in Kubeapps

Begin the tutorial by preparing your TCE cluster deployment .