Tanzu Kubernetes Grid provides several different Fluent Bit manifest files to help you deploy and configure Fluent Bit for use with Splunk, Elastic Search, Kafka and a generic HTTP endpoint. In this post, I’ll walk though not only the Fluent Bit configuration which VMware has documented but the deployment of Kafka in a TKG cluster. …
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Tanzu Kubernetes Grid provides several different Fluent Bit manifest files to help you deploy and configure Fluent Bit for use with Splunk, Elastic Search, Kafka and a generic HTTP endpoint. In this post, I’ll walk though not only the Fluent Bit configuration which VMware has documented but the deployment of Splunk in a TKG cluster. …
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By default, when a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid cluster is upgraded, the nodes are upgraded one a time. In my labs, I usually only have a single control plane node and at most two worker nodes since they are very resource constrained and not running any kind of demanding workloads so this isn’t a concern I …
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I recently had an opportunity to run though a massive upgrade effort of a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition (TKGI, formerly Enterprise PKS) installation from 1.7 to 1.8. This also included a vSphere upgrade from 6.7 U3 to 7.0b and an NSX-T upgrade from 2.5.1 to 3.0.1. TKGI 1.8 was just released on June 30th …
This is loosely based off of the instructions at https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Tanzu-Kubernetes-Grid/1.0/vmware-tanzu-kubernetes-grid-10/GUID-manage-instance-authentication.html with some help from https://brianragazzi.wordpress.com/2020/05/12/configure-tanzu-kubernetes-grid-to-use-active-directory/. It was not a trivial process but the end result was worth it…being able to access your TKG clusters via an AD username/password. I started out with a a TKG management cluster deployed via the instructions in my blog post, Installing TKG 1.1 …
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In my last post, I had briefly hinted at the need for LoadBalancer services in TKG on vSphere since the only other externally accessible option (NodePort) will run into issues after an upgrade as your node IP addresses will change. TKG on vSphere does not offer any solution that provides LoadBalancer functionality (yet) but one …
How to Deploy MetalLB with BGP in a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid 1.1 Cluster Read More »
Much of this is based off of the instructions noted at Upgrading Tanzu Kubernetes Grid. TKG 1.1 provides the first opportunity to perform an upgrade of the product. The following are my notes from performing a TKG upgrade. The first step will be to download the components needed to install TKG 1.1 from https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?downloadGroup=TKG-110&productId=988&rPId=46507. This will …
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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 …
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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 …
