# What is "Tiller"?

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**Created:** [February 25, 2020, 6:33pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/what-is-tiller/34815 "2020-02-25T18:33:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![ricmarq](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/ricmarq/32/8264_2.png) [@ricmarq](https://forums.suse.com/u/ricmarq)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2020, 6:33pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/what-is-tiller/34815/1 "2020-02-25T18:33:51Z")

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Greetings,

Page 93 of the Lecture Manual for this CAP101 course has a Slide titled “CaaS Platform Requirements”. The first bullet point of that slide says “- Install Tiller on the Cluster”.

In the Week 1 Review Webinar, I asked the Academy Instructor “What is Tiller?”. He replied (by e-mail) and authorized me to publish his answer here in the Forum, for the benefit of other fellow students of this course:

[INDENT]"Tiller is the service that communicates with the Kubernetes API to manage the Helm Packages.[/INDENT]

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**Author:** ![Academy\_Instructor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9d8465/32.png) [@Academy\_Instructor](https://forums.suse.com/u/Academy_Instructor)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2020, 6:47pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/what-is-tiller/34815/2 "2020-02-25T18:47:07Z")

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You can find a great deal of information in the Cloud Foundry documentation: [https://docs.cloudfoundry.org/](https://docs.cloudfoundry.org/).