index.html.md.erb

---
title: {{ vars.app_runtime_full }}
owner: Tanzu Application Service Release Engineering
---

This topic provides an overview of
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## <a id='overview'></a> Overview

{{ vars.app_runtime_short }} brings the development experience of [Tanzu Application Service](https://docs.pivotal.io/application-service/concepts/index.html) to the Kubernetes container orchestrator.
It includes the most important features of Tanzu Application Service, such as `cf push` for buildpack-based apps, while running
both the system components and the application instances as Kubernetes workloads.

## <a id='getting-started'></a> Getting Started

See [Preparing to Install {{ vars.app_runtime_full }}]
(preparing-to-install-tas-for-kubernetes.html) to set up the
dependencies required to install {{ vars.app_runtime_short }}.