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 …
How to Upgrade a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid cluster from 1.0 to 1.1 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 …
