ClusterAPI

Installing a TKG 1.4 management cluster on vSphere with NSX Advanced Load Balancer

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The process of deploying a TKG 1.4 management cluster is largely unchanged from my previous post, Installing Tanzu Kubernetes Grid 1.3 on vSphere with NSX Advanced Load Balancer, but there are some differences worth calling out. I’ll walk through the entire process again in this post and pay special attention to new and changed portions. …

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Using multiple availability zones for a workload cluster in TKG 1.4 on vSphere

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Before TKG 1.4, when you provisioned workload clusters on vSphere, the nodes mostly ended up randomly spread out across the available ESXi hosts. This wouldn’t provide the best experience when you’re planning for DR scenarios and want to ensure some redundancy. There is now the ability to spread nodes across multiple clusters within a single …

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

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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

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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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Provision and upgrade WCP clusters via TMC

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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 …

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Attaching a vSphere 7.0 with Tanzu supervisor cluster to Tanzu Mission Control and creating new Tanzu Kubernetes clusters

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Adding a Tanzu Kubernetes cluster to TMC management as an attached cluster has been possible for quite a while. You didn’t have the same level of control as you would for a cluster created by TMC on AWS but it at least provided some visibility and the policy functionality provided by TMC. As of yesterday, …

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How to deploy a TKG cluster on AWS using Tanzu Mission Control

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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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