VMware Tanzu

VMware Tanzu (now part of Broadcom) is a portfolio of products for modernizing applications and infrastructure with a common approach to building, running, and managing Kubernetes across multi-cloud environments. Key APIs include the Tanzu Service Mesh REST API for cluster and global namespace management, Kubernetes CRD-based APIs for VM Operator, Projects Operator, and NSX Operator, and the Tanzu CLI plugin runtime.

VMware Tanzu publishes 5 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Authentication API, Clusters API, Global Namespaces API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include Cloud-Native, Containers, Enterprise, Kubernetes, and Multi-Cloud.

The VMware Tanzu catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

VMware Tanzu’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, engineering blog, pricing, signup flow, CLI, and 14 more developer resources.

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32.0/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 19/100 agent aware Front door AI 3/6 light Heartbeat 98/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
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Cloud-Native Containers Enterprise Kubernetes Multi-Cloud Service Mesh VMware

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Information Technology Management

BC-600

ClustersGlobal NamespacesTanzu Kubernetes Clusters

PUT /v1alpha1/clusters/{cluster_name} POST /apis/run.tanzu.vmware.com/v1alpha2/namespaces/{namespace}/tanzukubernetesclusters

Kin Score

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Composite quality — 32.0/100 · thin

Contract Quality 11.1 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 4.7 / 15

Access Clarity 2.6 / 15

Operational Transparency 1.2 / 10

Contract Governance 1.2 / 9

Discoverability 4.3 / 8

Regulatory Posture 1.6 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 19/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 0 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

The six quality facets above are damped to 75 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 25. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 75% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship Ask about this →
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented) Ask about this →
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes Ask about this →
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0 Ask about this →
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link Ask about this →
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document Ask about this →

10 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Access Clarity scores 17.0 — up to +16.6 composite points Ask about this →
Developer Ergonomics scores 31.0 — up to +13.8 composite points Ask about this →
Operational Transparency scores 11.9 — up to +11.5 composite points Ask about this →

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
IDE Extension Marketplaces (JetBrains, VS Code, Open VSX, Docker Verified Publishers, PyPI orgs)	builds-on	55.6	-	-
Infrastructure-as-Code Provider Registries (Terraform, OpenTofu, Pulumi)	builds-on	55.6	-	-
OpenSSF Best Practices Badge Holders	builds-on	55.6	-	-
Docker Hub Verified Publishers + Official Images	builds-on	55.6	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 5

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

VMware Tanzu Authentication API

Exchange CSP API tokens for Bearer access tokens

VMware Tanzu Clusters API

Manage Kubernetes clusters onboarded to Tanzu Service Mesh

VMware Tanzu Global Namespaces API

Manage global namespaces connecting workloads across clusters

VMware Tanzu Resource Groups API

Manage resource groups for policy enforcement and monitoring

VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Clusters API

Create and manage TanzuKubernetesCluster resources

Open Collections 6

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

VMware Tanzu Service Mesh Authentication API

OPEN COLLECTION

VMware Tanzu Service Mesh Authentication Clusters API

OPEN COLLECTION

VMware Tanzu Service Mesh Authentication Global Namespaces API

OPEN COLLECTION

VMware Tanzu Service Mesh Authentication Resource Groups API

OPEN COLLECTION

VMware Tanzu Service Mesh API

OPEN COLLECTION

VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Tanzu Kubernetes Clusters API

OPEN COLLECTION

VMware Tanzu API pricing

Not yet checked against VMware Tanzu's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-05-04; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Free freemium	Free
Professional paid	Free
Enterprise enterprise	—

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Rate limits

Free Tier Default: 10 requests per minute
Free Tier Monthly Quota: 1000 requests per month
Professional Tier Default: 100 requests per minute

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against VMware Tanzu's documentation. All 5 limits →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

VMware Tanzu Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

VMware Tanzu Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

VMware Tanzu Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Vmware Tanzu Context

8 classes · 25 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs. Counts are the severity each rule declares, not results of running them.

VMware Tanzu — jsonschema rules

5 rules · 4 warn-severity 1 info-severity

SPECTRAL

VMware Tanzu API Rules

8 rules · 2 error-severity 6 warn-severity

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 2

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Tanzu Service Mesh Cluster

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Tanzu Service Mesh Global Namespace

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 1

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

VMware Tanzu Cluster Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 2

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Create Cluster Example

5 fields

EXAMPLE

VMware Tanzu Service Mesh List Clusters Example

5 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

VMware Tanzu Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

VMware Tanzu Domain Security

TLSv1.2 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access (API Evangelist recommendations) 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

VMware Tanzu Agentic Access

16 operations · 9 acting

AGENTIC

Kubernetes CRDs 1

Kubernetes Custom Resource Definitions published by this provider.

tanzukubernetescluster crd

CRD

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Signup

Signup

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Broadcom TechDocs

Broadcom TechDocs

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

CLI

CLI

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Pricing

Pricing

Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 5

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

ParentCompany

Velero

Sonobuoy

Cartographer

Source (apis.yml)

aid: vmware-tanzu
name: VMware Tanzu
description: VMware Tanzu (now part of Broadcom) is a portfolio of products for modernizing applications and infrastructure
  with a common approach to building, running, and managing Kubernetes across multi-cloud environments. Key APIs include the
  Tanzu Service Mesh REST API for cluster and global namespace management, Kubernetes CRD-based APIs for VM Operator, Projects
  Operator, and NSX Operator, and the Tanzu CLI plugin runtime.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-13'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/vmware-tanzu.png
tags:
- Cloud-Native
- Containers
- Enterprise
- Kubernetes
- Multi-Cloud
- Service Mesh
- VMware
tags_raw:
- Cloud Native
- Containers
- Enterprise
- Kubernetes
- Multi-Cloud
- Service Mesh
- VMware
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/vmware-tanzu/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-03-26'
modified: '2026-09-16'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: vmware-tanzu:vmware-tanzu-authentication-api
  name: VMware Tanzu Authentication API
  description: Exchange CSP API tokens for Bearer access tokens
  humanURL: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Tanzu-Service-Mesh/index.html
  tags:
  - Authentication
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/vmware-tanzu-authentication-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Tanzu-Service-Mesh/services/api-programming-guide/GUID-6C5044B8-6950-42A6-87A5-3D88BEAE09DB.html
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/vmware-vsphere-with-tanzu/GUID-31BF8166-5FC8-4D43-933D-5797F3BE4A36.html
  - type: KubernetesCRD
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/vmware-tanzu/refs/heads/main/crd/tanzukubernetescluster-crd.yaml
- aid: vmware-tanzu:vmware-tanzu-clusters-api
  name: VMware Tanzu Clusters API
  description: Manage Kubernetes clusters onboarded to Tanzu Service Mesh
  humanURL: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Tanzu-Service-Mesh/index.html
  tags:
  - Cluster
  tags_raw:
  - Clusters
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/vmware-tanzu-clusters-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Tanzu-Service-Mesh/services/api-programming-guide/GUID-6C5044B8-6950-42A6-87A5-3D88BEAE09DB.html
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/vmware-vsphere-with-tanzu/GUID-31BF8166-5FC8-4D43-933D-5797F3BE4A36.html
  - type: KubernetesCRD
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/vmware-tanzu/refs/heads/main/crd/tanzukubernetescluster-crd.yaml
- aid: vmware-tanzu:vmware-tanzu-global-namespaces-api
  name: VMware Tanzu Global Namespaces API
  description: Manage global namespaces connecting workloads across clusters
  humanURL: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Tanzu-Service-Mesh/index.html
  tags:
  - Global Namespaces
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/vmware-tanzu-global-namespaces-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Tanzu-Service-Mesh/services/api-programming-guide/GUID-6C5044B8-6950-42A6-87A5-3D88BEAE09DB.html
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/vmware-vsphere-with-tanzu/GUID-31BF8166-5FC8-4D43-933D-5797F3BE4A36.html
  - type: KubernetesCRD
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/vmware-tanzu/refs/heads/main/crd/tanzukubernetescluster-crd.yaml
- aid: vmware-tanzu:vmware-tanzu-resource-groups-api
  name: VMware Tanzu Resource Groups API
  description: Manage resource groups for policy enforcement and monitoring
  humanURL: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Tanzu-Service-Mesh/index.html
  tags:
  - Resource Groups
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/vmware-tanzu-resource-groups-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Tanzu-Service-Mesh/services/api-programming-guide/GUID-6C5044B8-6950-42A6-87A5-3D88BEAE09DB.html
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/vmware-vsphere-with-tanzu/GUID-31BF8166-5FC8-4D43-933D-5797F3BE4A36.html
  - type: KubernetesCRD
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/vmware-tanzu/refs/heads/main/crd/tanzukubernetescluster-crd.yaml
- aid: vmware-tanzu:vmware-tanzu-tanzu-kubernetes-clusters-api
  name: VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Clusters API
  description: Create and manage TanzuKubernetesCluster resources
  humanURL: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Tanzu-Service-Mesh/index.html
  tags:
  - Tanzu Kubernetes Clusters
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/vmware-tanzu-tanzu-kubernetes-clusters-api-openapi.yml
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/vmware-tanzu-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/vmware-tanzu-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/vmware-tanzu-finops.yml
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/vmware-tanzu-capability-edges.yml
  name: VMware Tanzu Business Capability Map
- type: ParentCompany
  url: https://apis.io/providers/vmware/
  name: VMware
  x-relationship: product
  x-generated-by: broadcom-family:2026-08-21
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/vmware-tanzu-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/vmware-tanzu-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/vmware-tanzu-authentication.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vmware-tanzu
- type: Website
  url: https://tanzu.vmware.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Tanzu/index.html
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu
- type: Blog
  url: https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/blog
- type: Pricing
  url: https://tanzu.vmware.com/pricing
- type: Signup
  url: https://tanzu.vmware.com/try
- type: Broadcom TechDocs
  url: https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-tanzu.html
- type: CLI
  url: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/tanzu-cli
- type: Velero
  url: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/velero
- type: Sonobuoy
  url: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/sonobuoy
- type: Cartographer
  url: https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/cartographer
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-parent: vmware
x-relationship: product

VMware Tanzu API — frequently asked questions

Does VMware Tanzu have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 5 APIs from VMware Tanzu, including VMware Tanzu Authentication API, VMware Tanzu Clusters API and VMware Tanzu Global Namespaces API, and 2 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the VMware Tanzu API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 5 OpenAPI specifications for VMware Tanzu, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the VMware Tanzu API?

VMware Tanzu uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as VMware Tanzu Authentication.

How much does the VMware Tanzu API cost?

APIs.io lists 3 pricing plans for VMware Tanzu, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the VMware Tanzu API ready for AI agents?

VMware Tanzu has a Kin Score of 32.0 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 19.0 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.

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