Written By: Dinesh Tripathi (@dinesh30)
EKS Anywhere is now generally available. Also, couple of days back, VMware announced General availability of TKG v1.4 . I thought to compare both against few points and help you understand their capabilities.
Let’s get straight to the comparison
| Component | VMware TKG | amazon EKS anywhere |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | vSphere 6,7u3, vSphere 7,x, VMC on AWS, Azure VMware Solution, VCF, AWS, Azure | vSphere 7.x |
| Version | TKG v1.4 | Very first version GAed |
| Installation Method | Kubeadm using Cluster API | Kubeadm using Cluster API |
| Offline Deployment | Supported | Not Supported |
| Tenancy | Single Tenant, Multitenant (can have multiple vCenter hosting workload clusters) | Single Tenant |
| OpenSource Projects | Not Yet | EKS Distro |
| Logging | FluentBit for log forwarding, integration with HTTP endpoints, Splunk, ELK | Bring your own solution |
| Monitoring | Prometheus, Grafana, Tanzu Observability | Bring your own solution |
| Backup and Restore | Velero (supported by VMware) | Bring your own solution |
| Policy Management | Tanzu Mission Control | Bring your own solution |
| Cluster conformance Check | Sonobuoy (supported by VMware) | Bring your own solution |
| Service Mesh | Tanzu Service Mesh | Bring your own solution |
| Local Registry | Harbor (supported by VMware) | Bring your own solution |
| Load Balancer | NSX Advanced Load Balancer, NSX-T | Bring your own solution |
| Serverless | Cloud Native Runtime for VMware Tanzu | Not Supported |
| Role Based Access Control Management | Using Tanzu Mission Control, manage RBAC in a single pane of glass | Kubernetes RBAC |
| Certificate Management for Applications | Cert-Manager (supported by VMware) | Bring your own |
| Application Modernization Focus | Tanzu Build Service, Tanzu Application Catalog, Tanzu Spring Runtime, Tanzu Application Platform (Beta), Application Transformer (Preview) | |
| Dashboard | Tanzu Mission Control | EKS Console using EKS connector |
Looking for more detail ?
VMware TKG Documentation
Amazon EKS Anywhere Documentation
https://anywhere.eks.amazonaws.com/docs/overview/
This comparison is purely based on my learning about both the products and if you think i am wrong on any point, feel free to leave comment.
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