In one of my previous posts from the TAS/ALB Installation series, I spoke about the pre-requisites to get TAS to use AVI LB instead of NSX-T in favour of the latter’s deprecation. As part of this pre-requisite, you had to create the NSX Security groups manually and use them as Pool Members in AVI LB…
Now that we have successfully installed TAS, we are good to provision apps using it. To do so, we will be using the “CF CLI” which we installed earlier during the pre-requisites setup stage.For the sake of simplicity, I will be using a simple static page (nginx) application. Create a directory for TAS deployments and…
If you had been following all my previous posts, you would have ended up in a situation where your smoke tests would have succeeded, while push usage errand would have failed.If you take a closer look at the error message it says “Can’t connect to server on ‘mysql.service.cf.internal’”. So, this means that your container network…
If you have followed my previous posts in the series, you should see a screen like the one in the screenshot below when you login to Operations Manager. We will start with configuring the TAS tile followed by the NCP tile.TAS InstallationClick on the TAS tile and Assign AZ and network to be used by…
In this post, we will look into the procedure of setting up the CLIs that we will need to manage our TAS/BOSH/Operations Manager environment. Operations Manager CLI SetupDownload and Install the binary on to a bastion host using the following set of commands: Create an env file with the following content (vi ~/.env):Save and quit…
BOSH Director SetupLogging in to Operations Manager for the first time post deployment, should get you to the following screen. This BOSH director tile is present by default when an OpsManager is deployed. Using the vCenter Config pane, set up your vCenter Server for provisioning by following the prompts and filling in the respective values…
In my previous articles, I spoke about deploying and setting up AVI controller. In this article, we will discuss the pre-requisites required to setup TAS both from a NSX-T and AVI perspective.NSX-T Pre-requisitesConstructs to be used by ALBWe will first create security groups that we will use while creating LBs on AVI. Navigate to “Inventory…
In my earlier post, I covered the OVA deployment procedure of Opsman and AVI controller. In this article, the focus would be to setup the controller and configure the cloud endpoint to be used for the deployment.Initial ConfigurationI have created a DNS entry for my controller’s IP address. Hence accessing it via the URL here….
Tanzu Application Service or TAS (formerly: PCF/Pivotal Cloud Foundry) is now rebranded as Tanzu Platform for Cloud Foundry.To keep it simple, TAS orchestrates your app deployment and does *A LOT* behind the screens. “cf push” is the command that bootstraps your app and runs the app processes within a container in a special VM (diego…
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