June 2020

How to Configure Dex and Gangway for Active Directory Authentication in TKG

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This is loosely based off of the instructions at https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Tanzu-Kubernetes-Grid/1.0/vmware-tanzu-kubernetes-grid-10/GUID-manage-instance-authentication.html with some help from https://brianragazzi.wordpress.com/2020/05/12/configure-tanzu-kubernetes-grid-to-use-active-directory/.  It was not a trivial process but the end result was worth it…being able to access your TKG clusters via an AD username/password. I started out with a a TKG management cluster deployed via the instructions in my blog post, Installing TKG 1.1 …

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How to Deploy MetalLB with BGP in a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid 1.1 Cluster

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In my last post, I had briefly hinted at the need for LoadBalancer services in TKG on vSphere since the only other externally accessible option (NodePort) will run into issues after an upgrade as your node IP addresses will change. TKG on vSphere does not offer any solution that provides LoadBalancer functionality (yet) but one …

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How to Upgrade a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid cluster from 1.0 to 1.1

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Much of this is based off of the instructions noted at Upgrading Tanzu Kubernetes Grid. TKG 1.1 provides the first opportunity to perform an upgrade of the product. The following are my notes from performing a TKG upgrade. The first step will be to download the components needed to install TKG 1.1 from https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?downloadGroup=TKG-110&productId=988&rPId=46507. This will …

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