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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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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Windows workloads on Kubernetes have been supported as a beta feature in Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition for some time but with the release of TKGI 1.9, it’s finally a GA feature. It is only supported on vSphere with NSX-T networking though so keep that in mind before heading down this road. I’ll walk you …
Node pools are a logical construct used with TMC-provisioned clusters. You can define a node pool while provisioning a cluster or after the cluster has already been created. A node pool will allow you to segregate your worker nodes based on location (primarly), size, or on some other deciding factor. This functionality is only available for …
If you haven’t tried out Tanzu Observability by Wavefront (in TMC or otherwise), I can’t recommend it enough. I’m relatively new to it but am still finding myself amazed with the depth of understanding it can bring to any kind of data that you send to it. TMC recently introduced an integration with Tanzu Observability …
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Inspections in TMC are using Sonobuoy within the cluster to do their work. You could use Sonobuoy directly and bypass TMC but it would take a little bit of configuration that TMC handles for you…it’s really not much if you’ve got access to TMC, why bother with it? You also wouldn’t get the great UI experience that …
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Harbor is VMware’s free, open-source image registry that ships with a few of our Tanzu products (Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition and vSphere 7 with Tanzu). There are numerous ways to get it up and running but I wanted to take a crack at getting it running on Photon OS, also a free, open-source project …
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 …
