# Install tt with Homebrew, Nix

Command-line utility to manage Tarantool applications. Version 2.13.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-05-21.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:tt
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install tt
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#tt
```

  Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/tt/tt/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:tt
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Package manager page:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/tt>
- **Version:** 2.13.0
- **Source summary:** Command-line utility to manage Tarantool applications
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/tarantool/tt>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/tarantool/tt>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://github.com/tarantool/tt#readme>
- **License:** BSD-2-Clause
- **Source archive:** <https://github.com/tarantool/tt/releases/download/v2.13.0/tt-2.13.0-complete.tar.gz>
- **Last updated:** 2026-05-21T20:10:28Z
- **Generated:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00

## Executables

- tt (cli)
- tt (alias)

## Dependencies

- bash-completion
- openssl@3

## Build dependencies

- go
- mage
- pkgconf

## Uses from macOS

- curl
- unzip
- zip

## Install behavior

- Post-install hook: not defined
- Bottle: available on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-07-08
- Package-manager version: 2.13.0
- Package-manager updated: 2026-05-21
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/tarantool/tt
- info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available.
## Project history and usage

`tt` is the Tarantool command-line utility for developing, deploying, running, and operating Tarantool applications.

### Project history

The tarantool/tt repository was created on GitHub in 2021. Its README presents `tt` as Tarantool's instance and environment management utility, built around isolated environments defined by `tt.yaml`.

Tarantool's official documentation describes `tt` as a unified CLI for tasks ranging from installing specific Tarantool versions to managing remote instances and developing applications. It also states that `tt` replaces the older `tarantoolctl` and Cartridge CLI utilities.

### Adoption history

`tt` adoption is tightly coupled to the Tarantool ecosystem rather than to a broad standalone CLI audience. Official docs frame it as the primary command-line path for modern Tarantool application work, including multi-instance applications and environment isolation.

The README documents package-manager installation via deb and rpm repositories, Gentoo overlay, and Homebrew on macOS. The supplied package facts show Homebrew and Nix packaging.

### How it is used

`tt` is used to initialize environments, manage Tarantool binaries and modules, create applications from templates, run instances, inspect status, work with rocks, pack applications, and interact with clusters.

The 2.x changelog shows the tool continuing to absorb operational duties, including cluster worker configuration commands, JSON/YAML status output, Tarantool Cluster Manager support, and migration notes for incompatible 2.0.0 layout changes.

### Why package nerds care

For package nerds, `tt` is interesting because it packages the operational surface of a database/application runtime into one CLI. The package is less a generic Unix utility than the versioned control plane expected by Tarantool users.

Its configuration and artifact-layout changes make it the sort of package where distro formulas, default paths, and upgrade notes matter: installing the binary is easy, but the value comes from predictable environment layout.

### Timeline

- 2021: The tarantool/tt GitHub repository is created.
- 2022: GitHub releases begin with 0.1.0.
- 2023: Version 1.0.0 is released.
- 2025: The 2.10.0 changelog adds Tarantool Cluster Manager command support.
- 2026: Version 2.13.0 adds cluster worker configuration commands.

### Related projects

- The official docs identify `tarantoolctl` and Cartridge CLI as deprecated predecessors replaced by `tt`.
- The README positions `tt` alongside Tarantool packages, Tarantool Enterprise Edition, and Tarantool application templates.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/tarantool/tt#readme documents `tt` as Tarantool's instance and environment management utility, its environment model, install paths, and Homebrew installation.>
- <https://github.com/tarantool/tt/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md documents release history and 2.x feature additions.>
- <https://github.com/tarantool/tt/blob/master/doc/migration_from_older_versions.md documents 2.0.0 migration and layout changes.>
- <https://www.tarantool.io/en/doc/latest/reference/tooling/tt_cli documents `tt` as the unified Tarantool CLI and replacement for `tarantoolctl` and Cartridge CLI.>


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals


## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Configuration files

- Unix: tt.yaml, /etc/tarantool/tt.yaml, tt_daemon.yaml

## Credential files

- Unix: credential_path in tt.yaml
## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** tt
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 0
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** no
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** stable

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - tt: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/tt/tt/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Related links

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- [bash-completion](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/bash-completion/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [openssl@3](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/openssl-3/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [go](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/go/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [mage](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/mage/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [pkgconf](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/pkgconf/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [cartridge-cli](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/cartridge-cli/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, database-tools, developer-tools, tarantool.
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## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/tt.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/tt.yml)


## Sources

- Nucleus package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- package-page enrichment
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- package version freshness
- av.db category and tag curation
- package relationship graph
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph