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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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Revisiting installing vSphere with Tanzu while using NSX Advanced Load Balancer

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In my earlier post, Deploying vSphere 7.0 U2 with Tanzu while using NSX Advanced Load Balancer, I conducted a thorough walkthrough of the process of installing vSphere with Tanzu while using NSX Advanced Load Balancer (NSX ALB) for load balancer services. While vSphere 7.0 U3 does not differ too largely from 7.0 U2, I wanted …

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Revisiting installing NSX Advanced Load Balancer for use with Tanzu Kubernetes Grid and vSphere with Tanzu

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Several months ago, I did a walkthrough of installing NSX Advanced Load Balancer (NSX ALB) for use with both Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) and vSphere with Tanzu. This was on the 20.1.3 version and there have been a few updates since then. I also wrote a post on upgrading NSX ALB a month later but …

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Migrating a TKG cluster control-plane endpoint from kube-vip to NSX-ALB

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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 …

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How to configure external-dns with Microsoft DNS in TKG 1.3 (plus Harbor and Contour)

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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 …

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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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Deploying NSX Advanced Load Balancer for use with Tanzu Kubernetes Grid and vSphere with Tanzu

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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 …

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