Deploying Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) Windows Workload Cluster

Starting with Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) 1.5.2, you can deploy Windows workload clusters. I tried this and on a vSphere 7.x environment and will share a step by step instructions with you in this post. In my lab environment, I have tried deploying two Windows workload clusters and one linux workload cluster managed using same …

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Scaling Worker Nodes in a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) Cluster with Cluster Autoscaler

TKG supports scaling nodes in different ways:- Autoscale: Enable Cluster Autoscaler, which scales the number of worker nodes. See Scale Worker Nodes with Cluster Autoscaler.Scale horizontally: Run the tanzu cluster scale command with the --controlplane-machine-count and --worker-machine-count options, which scale the number of control plane and worker nodes. See Scale Clusters Horizontally With the Tanzu CLI.Scale vertically: Change the cluster’s machine template to …

Integrating TKGm Management Cluster with Azure OIDC endpoint for an Authentication

Let’s first understand a bit about the authentication component that is shipped with TKGm for authentication purpose. It’s Pinniped and it’s an opensource project. Pinniped mainly have two components: Pinniped Supervisor: The Pinniped Supervisor is an OIDC server which allows users to authenticate with an external identity provider (IDP), and then issues its own federation …

What’s New in TKG v1.5 – a quick view

VMware release TKG v1.5.0 and v1.5.1 together with multiple enhancements and I found them very useful. The recommend version to use for deployment is v1.5.1 and I would like to summarize the key changes here for you to have handy. We can install Tanzu Application Platform (TAP) v1.0.1 on workload clusters created by Tanzu Kubernetes Grid, use …

Blog#50: Installing Apps on a TKG Cluster from Tanzu Application Catalog (TAC)

I am very happy to write my 50th blog on Tanzu Portfolio and really enjoyed exploring and writing about this portfolio. In todays blog, i will be talking about deploying application on a TKG cluster available on Tanzu Application Catalog. What is Tanzu Application Catalog (TAC) ? VMware Tanzu Application Catalog is a customizable selection …

Managing multiple TKG management clusters from a single bootstrap node

If you are using TKGm deployment, got multiple management clusters and want to manage them using single node, this article is for you. In many cases, what we do is, we deploy different TKGm management and workload clusters from different node. But when it comes to manage all of them, it always make sense to …

Supported Operating Systems for TKG Deployment

In this post, I will talk about supported operating systems for deploying TKG Management and Workload Clusters. This is not applicable if you are working on vSphere with Tanzu. In the following table, you can see the different OS supported under different infra/cloud providers. Image TypevSphereAWSAzureDistributed with TKGUbuntu 20.04Photon OS 3Ubuntu 20.04Amazon Linux 2Ubuntu 20.04Ubuntu …

Setting up Tanzu Community Edition (TCE) on MAC

VMware announced Tanzu Community Edition (TCE) this week. It's an OpenSource and free to use version. However, from a capability perspective, it got all the capabilties that TKG comes with including Tanzu packages. TCE support different deployment model as shown in below pictures. Standalone Cluster Managed Cluster In the first picture, you see the flow …

Cloud Native Runtime for Tanzu – Eventing Demo

In Part 1, I discussed about setting up Cloud Native Runtime for Tanzu and demonstrated Knative Serving component. In this post, I will demonstrate Knative Eventing feature and it will use Serving as well to serve the request. I am using the same lab environment that i setup in Part 1. So, Cloud Native Runtime …

Installing Cloud Native Runtime for Tanzu on Tanzu Kubernetes Cluster and deploying an application to test Serverless

Photo by ThisIsEngineering on Pexels.com What is Cloud Native Runtime for Tanzu? Cloud Native Runtimes for Tanzu is a serverless application runtime for Kubernetes that is based on Knative. Cloud Native Runtime Supports the following: Scaling application to zero podScaling application from Zero podEvent-Triggered workloads 1. Installing Cloud Native Runtime for Tanzu on a Tanzu …