Home
Tanzu Toolkit for Visual Studio is an extension for Visual Studio that allows users of Tanzu Platform to manage their apps from within the IDE.
Users of this extension are able to:
- Deploy apps by right-clicking on a project in the Visual Studio Solution Explorer & selecting "Push to Tanzu Platform".
- View apps running in any organizations and spaces the user has access to.
- Stop, start, and delete apps from the "Tanzu Platform Explorer" tool window.
- Stream app logs by right-clicking on any app in the "Tanzu Platform Explorer" tool window.
Tanzu Toolkit for Visual Studio uses the Cloud Foundry CLI to administer apps within Tanzu Platform. The CF CLI comes bundled with this extension but will maintain a separate configuration environment so as not to interfere with any existing installations of the CF CLI that may exist. CF CLI operations may not work for especially outdated versions of the platform; for more information, see this note on Cloud Controller API version support.
To install this extension, you will need Visual Studio 2022. This extension can be downloaded within the IDE by searching "Tanzu" in the "Extension Manager" window
This extension can also be installed outside of the IDE by first downloading the appropriate .vsix file, then double-clicking it to prompt an installation into your instance of Visual Studio.
The Tanzu.Toolkit.VisualStudio.vsix extension file is included in each release in this repository.
Alternatively, latest builds can be found on vsixgallery.com, though these may contain features still under development:
To uninstall this extension from Visual Studio, visit the "Extension Manager" found under the Extensions menu.
- As of September 2025, this extension includes version 8 of the CF CLI.