Overview With the release of vSphere 8, VMware introduced Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters version 2, with TKG 2 you can integrate the supervisor cluster with an external identity provider via OpenID Connect (which utilises OAuth2.0 for client authentication) which allows organisations to use separate users and groups for their developers who need to deploy and […]
Overview With the release of vSphere 8, VMware introduced Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters version 2, with TKG 2 you can provision two types of workload clusters on Supervisor cluster, traditional Tanzu Kubernetes clusters (TKCs) and Clusters based on a ClusterClass. With the introduction of Cluster Class TKG deployment API, this will provide a unified method of […]
Overview vSphere 8 introduced zonal supervisor cluster deployments in order to improve Tanzu workload resiliency, by enabling TKG clusters deployments across 3 vSphere clusters (where each cluster is mapped to a zone) providing wider faulty domains than just single vSphere cluster as was the case vSphere 7. In vSphere 8 HA zones, the supervisor cluster […]
Overview One of the cool features that was introduced with vSphere 8 is Workload Availability zones, which is basically HA zones for your Tanzu workload clusters hosted on top of vSphere with Tanzu supervisor clusters. Workload availability zones require 3 independent vSphere clusters each with independent networking and storage components, this is needed to provide […]
Overview vSphere 8 was announced during VMware Explore US with a lot of new powerful and cool features targeting bringing cloud benefits to on-premises workloads, focusing on supercharging workload performance through DPUs (SmartNICs a.k.a project Monterey ) and GPUs, whole new set of innovations around integrated Kubernetes and enhancing operational efficiency of vsphere administration by […]
