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MS-A2 VCF 9.0 Lab: Configuring vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS)

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This post is part of a short series that builds on our minimal VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 deployment (2x Minisforum MS-A2) and showcases how to fully leverage the exciting new capabilities in the VCF 9 platform, all while maintaining a minimal resource footprint, which is ideal for lab and learning purposes.

In this blog post, we will explore one of the foundational vSphere Supervisor services called vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS), enabling administrators to easily deploy, manage and lifecycle conformant Kubernetes Clusters at scale for their development and platform teams. VKS can be consumed through vCenter Server for single IT organizations, as well as through VCF Automation for organizations that require strong multi-tenancy, including cloud service providers.


Here are some additional VKS Resources that might be of interests if you would like to learn more:

Requirements:

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MS-A2 VCF 9.0 Lab: Configuring vSphere Supervisor with NSX VPC Networking

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This post is part of a short series that builds on our minimal VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 deployment (2x Minisforum MS-A2) and showcases how to fully leverage the exciting new capabilities in the VCF 9 platform, all while maintaining a minimal resource footprint, which is ideal for lab and learning purposes.

In this blog post, we will walk through the configurations steps to enable vSphere Supervisor with NSX VPC networking for our VCF 9 environment and enable the new asynchronous update feature for vSphere Supervisor, which no long requires updating vCenter Server to recieved new updates.


Here are some additional NSX VPC Resources that might be of interests if you would like to learn more:

Requirements:

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Quickly deploying vSphere IaaS (formerly vSphere with Tanzu) Control Plane Services via YAMLs

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I recently deployed the Local Consumption Interface (LCI) which is a new vSphere IaaS (formerly vSphere with Tanzu) Control Plane Service that was just introduced with the release of vSphere 8.0 Update 3 into my homelab.

While going through the manual vSphere UI deployment, I noticed there were only handful of vSphere IaaS services that are shipped out of the box including the VM Service (VM Operator), Velero vSphere Operator and Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) Service.


The workflow to register a new vSphere IaaS service is not difficult, but it does take multiple steps from downloading the deployment YAML file, uploading the file to vCenter Server and then confirm the deployment before the deployment of the service begins and this would have to be done for each vSphere IaaS service you wish to deploy!

There has to be a better and more streamline way, especially for those that do not like to click to many times in the UI ?

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