# VMware Tanzu

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/vmware-tanzu/  
**Website:** https://tanzu.vmware.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 5

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.

## Kin Score — 38.3 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 38.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 67.3 |
| Governance | 13.6 |
| Contract Governance | 13.6 |
| Operational Transparency | 10.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 31.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

## Agent readiness — 19.8 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (5)

- **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 Tanzu Kubernetes Clusters API** — Create and manage TanzuKubernetesCluster resources

## Agentic access (1)

- **Vmware Tanzu Agentic Access** — 12 operations · 7 acting

## Security (2)

- **Vmware Tanzu Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Vmware Tanzu Domain Security** — TLSv1.2 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Vmware Tanzu Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Cloud-Native, Containers, Enterprise, Kubernetes, Multi-Cloud, Service Mesh, VMware

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/vmware-tanzu/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.