VMware Cloud Director Container Service Extension interacts with several other products. To ensure VMware Cloud Director Container Service Extension operates successfully, it is beneficial to examine these compatibility details.

You can check the VMware Cloud Director Container Service Extension version compatibility and interoperability on the VMware Product Interoperability Matrix.

NSX and NSX Advanced Load Balancer Compatibility

All versions of VMware Cloud Director Container Service Extension from 4.0 and above, interoperate with all versions of VMware NSX® and VMware NSX® Advanced Load Balancer™ that are interoperable with the VMware Cloud Director version used with VMware Cloud Director Container Service Extension. The interoperability matrix no longer provides compatibility information between VMware Cloud Director Container Service Extension and NSX.

Tanzu Kubernetes Grid and Kubernetes Compatibility

VMware Cloud Director Container Service Extension 4.2 supports the following Tanzu Kubernetes Grid and Kubernetes versions:
  • Tanzu Kubernetes Grid 2.1.1 with Kubernetes 1.22, 1.23, and 1.24.
  • Tanzu Kubernetes Grid 2.2 with Kubernetes 1.23, 1.24, and 1.25.

  • Tanzu Kubernetes Grid 2.3.1 with Kubernetes 1.24, 1.25, and 1.26.

  • Tanzu Kubernetes Grid 2.4 with Kubernetes 1.25, 1.26, and 1.27.
  • Tanzu Kubernetes Grid 2.5 with Kubernetes 1.26, 1.27, and 1.28.
    Note: Tanzu Kubernetes Grid 2.5 is supported with VMware Cloud Director Container Service Extension 4.2.1 and later.
Note: VMware no longer supports Tanzu Kubernetes Grid versions 1.4.3, 1.5.4 and 1.6.1. Ensure you upgrade clusters, or advise tenant users to upgrade their clusters, to use Kubernetes versions that are compatible with Tanzu Kubernetes Grid versions 2.1.1, 2.2, 2.3.1, 2.4 and 2.5. New cluster creations using Tanzu Kubernetes Grid versions 1.4.3, 1.5.4 and 1.6.1 fail with VMware Cloud Director Container Service Extension 4.1.x and 4.2.x.

Kubernetes Resources Compatibility

The following table displays the interoperability between VMware Cloud Director Container Service Extension 4.2, 4.2.1, and 4.2.2 with Kubernetes resources.
Kubernetes Resource Supported Versions for 4.2 Supported Versions for 4.2.1 Supported Versions for 4.2.2 Documentation
Kubernetes Cloud Provider for VMware Cloud Director™ 1.5.0 1.6.0 1.6.0 Kubernetes Cloud Provider for VMware Cloud Director Documentation
Kubernetes Container Storage Interface Driver for VMware Cloud Director™ 1.5.0 1.6.0 1.6.0 Kubernetes Container Storage Interface driver for VMware Cloud Director
Kubernetes Cluster API Provider for VMware Cloud Director™ 1.2.0 1.3.0 1.3.0 Kubernetes Cluster API Provider for VMware Cloud Director
RDE Projector 0.7.0 0.7.0 0.7.1 Not applicable
Note: For Node Health Check to function successfully, VMware Cloud Director Container Service Extension 4.2 requires Kubernetes Cluster API Provider for VMware Cloud Director v1.2.0. To faciliate Kubernetes Cluster API Provider for VMware Cloud Director v1.2.0 support, it is necessary to use Kubernetes Cloud Provider for VMware Cloud Director 1.5.