With the introduction of TKG 1.4 you can now use NSX Advanced Load Balancer (NSA ALB) to supply the control plane endpoint VIP instead of kube-proxy. This is a great advancement but it’s not clear how to take advantage of this feature for upgraded management and workload clusters. In this post, I’ll walk through the …
Migrating a TKG cluster control-plane endpoint from kube-vip to NSX-ALB Read More »
Tanzu Kuberentes Grid (TKG) 1.4 was just released on September 9th, 2021 and I couldn’t wait to take it for a spin. You can read all about the new features in the Release Notes and be sure to check out the updated documentation as there are several changes to how things work from 1.3. My …
Upgrading from TKG 1.3 to 1.4 (including extensions) on vSphere Read More »
In my previous post, Enable and use Data Protection in TMC, I walked through the process of using the Data Protection feature in TMC to backup and restore a workload. While this works great, it has a limitation in that you must use an Amazon S3 bucket for the backup storage location. While this might …
The 1.1.1 version of the Velero Plugin for vSphere was just released and I had been waiting for it as I needed the ability to backup vSphere persistent volumes on Kubernetes 1.20.x and to use an untrusted certificate with my S3 storage location. Since both of these concerns were addressed in this version, I quickly …
Backup vSphere Persistent Volumes with Velero and the Velero Plugin for vSphere Read More »
I had just installed NSX ALB version 20.1.4 a few weeks ago (see Deploying NSX Advanced Load Balancer for use with Tanzu Kubernetes Grid and vSphere with Tanzu) and was happy to see a new version (20.1.5) out so soon as I was curious to see what the upgrade process looked like. This process was …
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 …
How to configure external-dns with Microsoft DNS in TKG 1.3 (plus Harbor and Contour) Read More »
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 …
Installing Tanzu Kubernetes Grid 1.3 on vSphere with NSX Advanced Load Balancer Read More »
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 …
Deploying vSphere 7.0 U2 with Tanzu while using NSX Advanced Load Balancer Read More »
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 …
In my previous post Attaching a vSphere 7.0 with Tanzu supervisor cluster to Tanzu Mission Control and creating new Tanzu Kubernetes clusters, I walked through the process of registering a vSphere 7.0 with Tanzu supervisor cluster to Tanzu Mission Control for the purpose of creating and managing workload clusters. Since then, I’ve spent some more …
