VMware Aria Automation enables you to provision a vSphere with Tanzu Kubernetes deployment from Automation Assembler to leverage the vSphere 7.x or later native capabilities to deploy and manage Tanzu Kubernetes clusters, providing an infrastructure-agnostic layer for provisioning and management of virtual infrastructure.
The Tanzu with vSphere Kubernetes functionality leverages the native Kubernetes capability of vSphere 7.x. It does not require a VMware Aria Automation PKS integration to function.
Prerequisites
- To provision a vSphere with Tanzu Kubernetes deployment with Automation Assembler, you must have access to vSphere 7.x or later. In VMware Aria Automation, vSphere is available as part of a vCenter cloud account. See Create a basic vCenter cloud account in VMware Aria Automation.
- Tanzu must be enabled on the vSphere cloud account, and it must contain appropriate supervisor namespaces.
- You must have an appropriate cluster plan to use with the integration. See Create a cluster plan in VMware Aria Automation Assembler for use with a vSphere with Tanzu Kubernetes deployment.
Procedure
Results
The Tanzu Kubernetes cluster is provisioned as specified in the cloud template.
What to do next
After you deploy the Tanzu cluster, you have several option for working with it.
- Navigate to the page in Cloud Assembly, and locate and download the related Kubeconfig file to access the provisioned Tanzu cluster. You can use the Kubeconfig file to manage the deployed Tanzu Kubernetes cluster as any other compliant Kubernetes cluster.
- You can find and explore the Tanzu cluster on the Cloud Assembly page.
- To create a new namespace, navigate to the Namespaces tab on the Cloud Assembly New Namespace to create a namespace on the applicable Tanzu cluster. You can verify that the namespace was created by verifying that it is listed on the Namespaces tab on the Kubernetes page. page and click