I am very new to the VMware Blockchain product but have deployed it a number of times since the 1.4 version. It is definitely not a “click next” type of installation but it’s not too difficult either. The process takes a little over an hour of time if you have a functional vSphere environment already. …
VMware Blockchain 1.6.0.1 Install on vSphere 7U3 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 »
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 »
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 …
Working with TKG Extensions and Shared Services in TKG 1.2 Read More »
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 …
