TMC Data Protection is a relatively new feature in TMC that allows you to backup and restore your Kubernetes clusters, namespaces or label-specific objects. It is based on Velero, is easy to configure and even allows you to set schedules for regular backups. I’ve used Velero on it’s own in the past against workloads in …
In my ongoing efforts to get the most of out of my Tanzu Kubernetes Grid lab environment, I decided to to install Prometheus, Grafana and AlertManager in one of my workload clusters. I had a lot of options to choose from with regards to how to implement these projects but decided to go with Kube-Prometheus …
TMC recently added functionality for moving a cluster from one cluster group to another. Cluster groups are a logical construct in TMC that provide means of organizing Kubernetes clusters in a way that makes sense to you and then applying common policies to the clusters in the same group. You can read more about cluster …
I’d been wanting to spend more time with Tanzu Mission Control as I haven’t used it much in the last few months. I’ve been spending nearly all my time with TKG and TKGI and was really starting to get stale on TMC. I decided to run through the relatively easy process of attaching an existing …
I hadn’t used TMC in a few months so decided to revisit the process for creating a TKG cluster on AWS. Just like months ago, I’m still impressed at how all of this works and you can end up with an OCI conformant Kubernetes cluster built with ClusterAPI on AWS. Note: These instructions assume you …
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I had been so focused on TKG on vSphere lately that I had been overlooking the fact that we’ve automated the process for standing up a cluster on AWS as well. While it’s far easier to do this via the TKG UI, I wanted to take a stab at it entirely from the command line. …
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Tanzu Kubernetes Grid provides several different Fluent Bit manifest files to help you deploy and configure Fluent Bit for use with Splunk, Elasticsearch, Kafka and a generic HTTP endpoint. In this post, I’ll walk though not only the Fluent Bit configuration which VMware has documented but the deployment of Elasticsearch/Kibana in a TKG cluster. You’ll …
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Tanzu Kubernetes Grid provides several different Fluent Bit manifest files to help you deploy and configure Fluent Bit for use with Splunk, Elastic Search, Kafka and a generic HTTP endpoint. In this post, I’ll walk though not only the Fluent Bit configuration which VMware has documented but the deployment of Kafka in a TKG cluster. …
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