VMware Cloud Director Container Service Extension is a VMware Cloud Director extension that offers client (CLI) and UI components to tenant users to create compatible Kubernetes clusters in their virtual data centers alongside their virtual machines.
VMware Cloud Director Container Service Extension service brings Kubernetes as a Service to VMware Cloud Director, offering multi-tenant, VMware supported, production ready, and compatible Kubernetes services with Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKGm). As a service provider administrator, you can add the service to your existing VMware Cloud Director tenants without any infrastructure change to you or your tenants. By using VMware Cloud Director Container Service Extension, customers can also use Tanzu products and services such as Tanzu® Mission Control to manage their clusters. For more information on Tanzu Mission Control, refer to Tanzu Mission Control.
As a service provider administrator, you can perform the following functions in VMware Cloud Director Container Service Extension:
Create customized VM templates: Kubernetes templates.
Import standard Tanzu Kubernetes Grid OVA: TKGm templates.
Allow tenant users to deploy fully functional Kubernetes clusters as self-contained vApps.
How does it work?
VMware Cloud Director Container Service Extension has a server and a client component. The server component installs as a VMware Cloud Director API extension. It exposes REST API endpoint points through VMware Cloud Director. The client component of VMware Cloud Director Container Service Extension plugs in vcd-cli, communicates with the VMware Cloud Director Container Service Extension server through the exposed API endpoints, and facilitates users to create Kubernetes clusters in VMware Cloud Director.
