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Can I deploy both Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) and vSphere with Tanzu on same vSphere Cluster?

06.09.2021 by William Lam // Leave a Comment

A simple question with a simple answer, yes! I have seen this question get asked in various internal Slack channels on whether you can deploy both Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) and vSphere with Tanzu (formally Project Pacific) on the same vSphere Cluster? If you were an early user of TKG, you may recall that if you attempted to deploy TKG to a vSphere Cluster which already had vSphere with Tanzu enabled, it would prevent you from proceeding. Instead of having to deploy another Kubernetes management control plane, you could simply leverage and connect to the Supervisor Cluster control plane using the TKG CLI and start deploying TKG Workload Clusters.

From a technical standpoint, there is no reason that TKG and vSphere with Tanzu could not co-exist on the same vSphere Cluster. In fact, this request has come up a number of times that the original TKG behavior has been recently updated to now allow for this co-existence. From an exploratory and learning point of view, this is quite useful to be able to try out both solution and not have to dedicate a specific vSphere Cluster for each of the Tanzu Kubernetes (K8s) offerings. A more practical use case that came up recently from a customer was being able to use both solution as a way to consolidate their workloads using a specific Tanzu K8s solution, which makes total sense. Today, there are still some differences in terms of the features and capabilities between TKG and vSphere with Tanzu and depending on your needs, you may have a use case for both in your environment.

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Categories // VMware Tanzu, vSphere 7.0 Tags // Tanzu Kubernetes Grid, vSphere Kubernetes Service

Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) Demo Appliance 1.3.1

06.07.2021 by William Lam // 2 Comments

It has been awhile since I have updated my Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) Demo Appliance Fling and I know a number of folks have been asking for an update. Today, I am happy to share that the TKG Demo Appliance v1.3.1 Fling is now available!

What's New:

  • Support for the latest TKG 1.3.1 (Patch 1) release
  • Support for TKG Workload Cluster using K8s v1.20.5 & v1.19.9
  • Support for TKG Workload Cluster upgrade workflow from K8s v1.19.9 to v1.20.5
  • Updated TKG Workshop Guide http://vmwa.re/tkg-on-vmc-guide (downloads in pre-req docs)
  • Example VMware Cloud on AWS and vSphere TKG Workload Cluster Deployment YAML Samples
  • Updated to latest version of Harbor (2.2.2), Docker Compose (1.29.2), Octant (0.20.0), TMC (0.2.1-170959eb) and Helm (3.6.0)

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Categories // VMware Cloud on AWS, VMware Tanzu Tags // Tanzu Kubernetes Grid, Tanzu Mission Control, VMware Cloud on AWS

Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) Demo Appliance 1.2.1

01.05.2021 by William Lam // 6 Comments

Check out the newest release of the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) Demo Appliance Fling which includes the following new features:

  • Support for the latest TKG 1.2.1 release
  • Support for TKG Workload Cluster upgrade workflow from Kubernetes v1.18.10 to v1.19.3
  • Updated embedded Harbor to use self-sign TLS certificate

One of the biggest feature I was excited for in the new TKG 1.2.1 release was support for an external container registry that was configured with a self-signed TLS certificate. Previously, TKG only supported container registries that were configured with a trusted CA signed certificate and that made it difficult for proof of concept/testing but also for environments that were air-gapped.

With previous releases of the TKG Demo Appliance, a valid TLS certificate was acquired from Let's Encrypt (LE) with the help of my good friend Ryan Johnson who owns the domain rainpole.io. The one downside to LE-based certificates is the short expiry period, which is every 90 days. This meant that any TKG Demo Appliance deployed after the expiry would stop functioning due to the certificate no longer being valid. Although I have been able to manage this by updating the appliance roughly every 90 days, usually in-conjunction with new release of TKG, it was less than ideal.

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Categories // Kubernetes Tags // Tanzu Kubernetes Grid, TKG

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