I did a walkthrough of this process for vSphere 7 with Tanzu in my earlier post, Attaching a vSphere 7.0 with Tanzu supervisor cluster to Tanzu Mission Control and creating new Tanzu Kubernetes clusters, and the process is largely the same for vSphere 8 with Tanzu. Once you have your supervisor cluster registered as a …
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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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
If you haven’t tried out Tanzu Observability by Wavefront (in TMC or otherwise), I can’t recommend it enough. I’m relatively new to it but am still finding myself amazed with the depth of understanding it can bring to any kind of data that you send to it. TMC recently introduced an integration with Tanzu Observability …
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Inspections in TMC are using Sonobuoy within the cluster to do their work. You could use Sonobuoy directly and bypass TMC but it would take a little bit of configuration that TMC handles for you…it’s really not much if you’ve got access to TMC, why bother with it? You also wouldn’t get the great UI experience that …
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TMC Data Protection is a relatively new feature in TMC that allows you to backup and restore your Kubernetes clusters, namespaces or label-specific objects. It is based on Velero, is easy to configure and even allows you to set schedules for regular backups. I’ve used Velero on it’s own in the past against workloads in …
TMC recently added functionality for moving a cluster from one cluster group to another. Cluster groups are a logical construct in TMC that provide means of organizing Kubernetes clusters in a way that makes sense to you and then applying common policies to the clusters in the same group. You can read more about cluster …
I’d been wanting to spend more time with Tanzu Mission Control as I haven’t used it much in the last few months. I’ve been spending nearly all my time with TKG and TKGI and was really starting to get stale on TMC. I decided to run through the relatively easy process of attaching an existing …
