October 2020

How to Deploy an OIDC-Enabled Cluster on vSphere in TKG 1.2

In one of my earlier blog posts, How to Configure Dex and Gangway for Active Directory Authentication in TKG, I walked through the process of creating an OIDC-enabled TKG cluster in the 1.1 version. With the 1.2 version, things are a little bit different. The process has some similarities to the Dex/Gangway configuration that was …

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Working with TKG Extensions and Shared Services in TKG 1.2

TKG has had extensions included in a manifest bundle since the 1.0 version but with the 1.2 version they have been much more tightly integrated and there are more of them. You’ll notice when you download the TKG cli bundle that there are several other utilities included now. These are part of the Carvel open-source …

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How to install vSphere with Tanzu with vSphere Networking

As of vSphere 7.0 U1, vSphere with Kubernetes has been rebranded to vSphere with Tanzu. Additionally, you no longer have to have NSX-T to deploy it. There is now an option that uses HAProxy and vSphere Networking for load balancing, but it does come with some limitations…the biggest being that you can’t deploy vSphere Pods …

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