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 …
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 …
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 …
How to deploy a TKG cluster on AWS using Tanzu Mission Control Read More »
I had been so focused on TKG on vSphere lately that I had been overlooking the fact that we’ve automated the process for standing up a cluster on AWS as well. While it’s far easier to do this via the TKG UI, I wanted to take a stab at it entirely from the command line. …
How to deploy a TKG cluster on AWS using the tkg CLI Read More »
The two vSphere plans that come with TKG, dev and prod, will create kubernetes nodes (and the load balancer VM) by performing a full clone of the templates that were created. This will result in a each VM being completely independent, likely having better storage performance (arguable) but taking a while to deploy as the …
How to Use Linked Clones in Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Read More »
Much of this is based off of the instructions noted at Installing Tanzu Kubernetes Grid. We’ll need to start off with an environment where vSphere 6.7 or 7.0 (not technically supported but works with TKG) is already deployed. I’m using a vApp in vCD as it’s quick and easy to get up and running and costs …
