Introduction

This page will give you an overview of everything that you need to get started with a Hosted installation of Tetrate Service Bridge (TSB).

Getting started

Your Tetrate support contact will provide you with the details of the Management Plane URL and the login credentials. If you do not have these, please contact your Account Representative or Tetrate Support.

Verify that you can log in to your Tetrate Management Plane:

When you begin, the TSB platform will be unconfigured:

Get the required tools

You interact with the Tetrate solution in a variety of ways:

• The GUI, hosted on the Management Plane, provides a way to visualize your application topology, chart service metrics, and view and configure your TSB policies. All modern browsers are supported
• The CLI is provided by the tctl tool. With this tool, you can interrogate the status of your management plane and control plane clusters, manage authentication, run debugging procedures and generate technical support reports. You can also interact with the entire TSB API using a yaml interface, making it easy to build and script your configuration
• The RESTful and gRPC APIs are broadly equivalent, and each provide a way to interact with the service configuration that is managed by the Management Plane. The documentation for each provides authentication and getting started examples
• You can enable GitOps support so that you can manage TSB configuration through the kube API. This is commonly used to deploy TSB configuration resources as part of a CI/CD pipeline
• You can pull metrics from the TSB Management Plane or Control Plane and render these in Grafana or any equivalent dashboard tool

Next, you should acquire a copy of the tctl tool, and then authenticate this tool with your TSB Management Plane