In my previous article, I described the process of enabling the Cloud Consumption Interface or CCI which enables you to deploy TKG workloads to a Supervisor Cluster via UI. Here, I will walk through the steps involved in using the UI to provision a cluster using the default and custom configuration. Provisioning a cluster through…
I was recently tasked with upgrading a Tanzu Kubernetes Cluster to v1.26.5 (version v1.26.5+vmware.2-fips.1 to be specific). Once I completed the upgrade, to my surprise, when I did a “kubectl get pods“, I found them to be missing. When i went digging for any known issues, I noticed something related to Pod Security that I…
In my last post, I discussed about replacing supervisor cluster’s VIP cert and the load balancer cert. This article will be a continuation of sorts.Supervisor cluster is compromised of so many individual components that communicate between each other and with vCenter using certificates and this signifies the importance of this certs being valid at all…
So far in this series of blogs, we have installed MinIO on a Ubuntu server, installed the Data Manager and the Velero vSphere Operator on the Supervisor cluster. We will continue in our journey to backup and restore a vSphere pod. The next step would be to install the vSphere plugin for Velero. Step 1:…
Tanzu has become the buzz word off-late. While VMware offers a variety of Tanzu services, this blog would concentrate on enabling vSphere with Tanzu or TKGs as they call it. Starting vSphere 7, your hypervisor’s (ESXi Servers) are capable of acting in similar capacity to a worker node of a kubernetes cluster, by using the…
All good things take time they say. I have come to realise this is kind of true. Been a while since I wrote.. You see where I am getting at? Never mind.. Let me jump right into it. If you have been following me, you would have noticed me talking about setting up a K8s…
My newfound love, Kubernetes or K8s (how its fondly known), has made my lazy weekends more meaningful. While I am at the very early stages of getting exposed to a production grade kubernetes environment, I continue to play around with the technology at every chance I get, with the least of resources I have managed…
With the tech world shifting its focus towards app modernization (as they call it), cloud native platforms have become increasingly popular. One such platform has become my new found love, of course, after other few priorities! To those who haven’t heard of Kubernetes or K8s before, I am sure you will regret for having missed…
