March 2021

How to configure external-dns with Microsoft DNS in TKG 1.3 (plus Harbor and Contour)

3 Comments / Harbor, Networking, NSX ALB, TKG, vSphere /

External-DNS is an open source project that is newly included in TKG 1.3. External-DNS synchronizes exposed Kubernetes Services and Ingresses with DNS providers. TKG 1.3 uses external-DNS to assist with service discovery as it will automatically create DNS records for httpproxy resources created via Contour in TKG. AWS (Route53), Azure, and RFC2136 (BIND) are currently

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Installing Tanzu Kubernetes Grid 1.3 on vSphere with NSX Advanced Load Balancer

6 Comments / Authentication, ClusterAPI, Install, NSX ALB, TKG, vSphere /

In my earlier post, Deploying NSX Advanced Load Balancer for use with Tanzu Kubernetes Grid and vSphere with Tanzu, I got NSX ALB up and running in a configuration that could be used for either vSphere with Tanzu or Tanzu Kubernetes Grid. In this post, I’ll go through the process of installing TKG 1.3 while

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Deploying vSphere 7.0 U2 with Tanzu while using NSX Advanced Load Balancer

13 Comments / ClusterAPI, Install, Networking, NSX ALB, vSphere /

In one of my earlier posts, How to install vSphere with Tanzu with vSphere Networking, I did a walkthrough of installing vSphere with Tanzu 7.0 U1 and using HAProxy as the Load Balancer solution. I’m going at it again but in 7.0 U2 we now support using NSX Advanced Load Balancer (formerly Avi Vantage) for

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Deploying NSX Advanced Load Balancer for use with Tanzu Kubernetes Grid and vSphere with Tanzu

4 Comments / Install, Networking, NSX ALB, TKG, vSphere /

With regards to VMware’s Kubernetes offerings, providing load balancing services to your workloads has been a bit tricky. If you were using Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition or vSphere with Tanzu, and had NSX-T in the mix, you were covered. vSphere with Tanzu, 7.0 U1 release, provided support for vSphere networking and HAProxy for load

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