Service Installer for VMware Tanzu 1.1 Release Notes

What’s New

• Automates the deployment and configuration of NSX Advanced Load Balancer in a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Service deployment on vSphere with NSX Advanced Load Balancer.
• Supports Tanzu Kubernetes Grid 1.5.1.

• Integrates the following Tanzu SaaS components on Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Service:

  • Tanzu Mission Control
  • Tanzu Observability
  • Tanzu Service Manager

• Integrates the following extensions on Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Service:

  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
• Ability to upload an input JSON file for Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Service.Adds verbose option to SIVT CLI.
• Ability to Download Service Installer for VMware Tanzu log bundle.
• Uses Tanzu Mission Control CLI to deploy shared service and workload clusters on Tanzu for Kubernetes Grid 1.5.1.
• Attach Tanzu Kubernetes Grid 1.5.1 management Cluster to Tanzu Mission Control.
• Custom sizing of CPU and memory storage for all clusters.
• Supports Avi controller 20.1.7.Supports Avi high availability.
• Reduces Avi controller footprint.
• Supports user owned certificate and default generation of certificate for Avi controller.
• Separates namespace and cluster creation for Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Service.
• Supports NTP for workload networks.
• Supports multiple workload networks.
• Ability to change the Service Installer password at the time of deployment.
• Uses standard input file naming convention.

• Supports Tekton pipeline for Tanzu Kubernetes Grid 1.4.x.

  • Reference Architecture based Day 0 deployment of Tanzu Kubernetes Grid on vSphere.
  • Day 2 operation of upgrading Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters from 1.4.0 to 1.4.1.

Service Installer for VMware Tanzu Deployment JSON files

This release introduces changes to the deployment JSON files that are generated from the Service Installer user interface.

Note: If you are directly using the old JSON files, it will not work.

The JSON files for each platform are available at,

• VMware Cloud on AWS
• vSphere - Backed by NSX-T
• vSphere - Backed by VDS and Tanzu Kubernetes Grid
• vSphere - Backed by VDS and Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Service

Resolved Issues

• Update documentation for Harbor setup to explain how to get a certificate ahead of time.
• Single network for all the segments.
• Good to have a production example network and a developer example network.
• Annotate networking diagram with sample values for CIDR ranges.
• Log location information was missing. Documentation needs to clearly have log location details.
• Update the documentation to clarify ‘Sizing for cluster’.
• Cluster selection is too restrictive for Tanzu Mission Control/Tanzu Observability. Need to have the option to select a smaller size. Need horizontal scaling instead of vertical scaling.
• The Service Installer OVA should come bundled with ‘kind CLI, k9s, k alias, kubectx, kube-ps1, fzf’. These are great aids when working on console.
• Good to resize the Avi controller to the “lightweight” config. 4 vcpu, 12 GB ram.
• Logging improvements.

Known Issues

• Bring your own certificate feature for AVI controller does not work as expected.
• Tanzu Service Mesh is not supported on 1.5.1. Integrating workload clusters in VMware Cloud environment with Tanzu Service Mesh fails.
• Complex passwords for proxy server won’t work. Passwords can contain only alphanumeric characters. This is due to bug in Tanzu Kubernetes Grid.
• Custom image repository is not supported in Tanzu Kubernetes Grid 1.5.1.
• Resource pool creation fails if a resource pool with same name exists in the parent resource pool.
• Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Service issue while listing clusters for same cluster names across different datacenter.

Download

• Download the latest Service Installer OVA from VMware Marketplace: Service Installer for VMware Tanzu.