Life Cycle Management for Developer Ready Infrastructure for VMware Cloud Foundation

Life cycle management design details the decisions for life cycle management of an instance of vSphere with Tanzu.

vSphere with Tanzu Life Cycle Management

You perform lifecycle management of vSphere with Tanzu using the vSphere Client and integrated life cycle functions available via command line tools such as kubectl.

Table 1. Design Decisions on Life Cycle Management for Developer Ready Infrastructure for VMware Cloud Foundation

Decision ID	Design Decision	Design Justification	Design Implication
DRI-TZU-LCM-001	Life cycle management of a Supervisor is performed using the vSphere Client with its native workflows.	Life cycle management of a Supervisor is not integrated into SDDC Manager.	Deployment, patching, updates, and upgrades of a Supervisor and its components subject to update or upgrade are performed without SDDC Manager automation.
DRI-TZU-LCM-002	Life cycle management of a Tanzu Kubernetes cluster is performed using kubectl.	Life cycle management of a Tanzu Kubernetes cluster is not integrated into SDDC Manager.	Deployment, patching, updates, and upgrades of a Tanzu Kubernetes cluster and its components subject to update or upgrade are performed without SDDC Manager automation.