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 …
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 …
Using multiple availability zones for a workload cluster in TKG 1.4 on vSphere Read More »
In previous versions of TKGI, access to vSphere storage was accomplished via the vSphere Cloud Provider. While still functional, this method uses the legacy in-tree driver and is not preferable to the newer vSphere CNS/CSI means of accessing vSphere storage. TKGI has allowed for use of the newer CSI driver for some time but it …
I’ve been through several TKGI installs over the last couple of years but not too many upgrades. The last time I went through one was going from 1.7 to 1.8, as documented in my previous post, A Walk-through of Upgrading Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition (Enterprise PKS) from 1.7 to 1.8. Much has changed since …
Upgrading a TKGI 1.11 Management Console installation to 1.12 Read More »
With the introduction of TKG 1.4, you now have the ability to deploy IPV6 Kubernetes clusters…and it’s not all that difficult to do either. I recently walked through the process and spent far more time working on getting a functional IPV6 vSphere environment with internet access than actually building out the TKG environment. VMware has …
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 …
Migrating a TKG cluster control-plane endpoint from kube-vip to NSX-ALB 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 »
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 …
The 1.1.1 version of the Velero Plugin for vSphere was just released and I had been waiting for it as I needed the ability to backup vSphere persistent volumes on Kubernetes 1.20.x and to use an untrusted certificate with my S3 storage location. Since both of these concerns were addressed in this version, I quickly …
Backup vSphere Persistent Volumes with Velero and the Velero Plugin for vSphere Read More »
I had just installed NSX ALB version 20.1.4 a few weeks ago (see Deploying NSX Advanced Load Balancer for use with Tanzu Kubernetes Grid and vSphere with Tanzu) and was happy to see a new version (20.1.5) out so soon as I was curious to see what the upgrade process looked like. This process was …
