The logical design consists of multiple elements which you can use to deploy and manage infrastructure used to run modern applications.
You activate and configure vSphere with Tanzu on your shared edge and workload vSphere cluster in the VI workload domain. NSX Edge nodes provide load balancing, north-south connectivity, and all required networking for the Kubernetes services. The ESXi hosts in the shared edge and workload vSphere cluster are prepared as NSX transport nodes to provide distributed routing and firewall services to your tenant workloads.
The Kubernetes environment consists of multiple elements.
- Supervisor
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The Supervisor is a special kind of Kubernetes cluster that uses ESXi hosts as worker nodes instead of Linux or Microsoft Windows operating systems.
- Registry Service
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The Registry Service is a deployment of a Harbor registry integrated as Supervisor Service.
- Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Service
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The Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Service deploys Tanzu Kubernetes clusters as Photon OS appliances on top of the Supervisor.
