This topic describes how to install and configure VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition (TKGI) on vSphere with Antrea or Flannel Networking as a Ops Manager (Ops Manager) tile.
Before performing the procedures in this topic, you must have deployed and configured Ops Manager. For more information, see vSphere Prerequisites and Resource Requirements.
If you use an instance of Ops Manager that you configured previously to install other runtimes, perform the following steps before you install Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition:
To install and configure TKGI:
To install Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition, do the following:
https://YOUR-OPS-MANAGER-FQDN/
in a browser to log in to the Ops Manager Installation Dashboard.To configure TKGI:
Click the orange Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition tile to start the configuration process.
WARNING: When you configure the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition tile, do not use spaces in any field entries. This includes spaces between characters as well as leading and trailing spaces. If you use a space in any field entry, the deployment of Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition fails.
To configure the availability zones (AZs) and networks used by the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition control plane:
Click Assign AZs and Networks.
Under Place singleton jobs in, select the AZ where you want to deploy the TKGI API and TKGI Database.
Note: You must specify the Balance other jobs in AZ, but the selection has no effect in the current version of Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition.
Perform the following steps:
Click TKGI API.
Under Certificate to secure the TKGI API, provide a certificate and private key pair.
The certificate that you supply must cover the specific subdomain that routes to the TKGI API VM with TLS termination on the ingress. If you use UAA as your OIDC provider, this certificate must be a proper certificate chain and have a SAN field.
Warning: TLS certificates generated for wildcard DNS records only work for a single domain level. For example, a certificate generated for *.tkgi.EXAMPLE.com
does not permit communication to *.api.tkgi.EXAMPLE.com
. If the certificate does not contain the correct FQDN for the TKGI API, calls to the API will fail.
api.tkgi.example.com
. To retrieve the public IP address or FQDN of the TKGI API load balancer, log in to your IaaS console. Note: The FQDN for the TKGI API must not contain uppercase letters or trailing whitespace.
max_in_flight
variable value. The max_in_flight
setting limits the number of component instances the TKGI CLI creates or starts simultaneously when running tkgi create-cluster
or tkgi update-cluster
. By default, max_in_flight
is set to 4
, limiting the TKGI CLI to creating or starting a maximum of four component instances in parallel.A plan defines a set of resource types used for deploying a cluster.
You must first activate and configure Plan 1,
and afterwards you can activate up to twelve additional, optional, plans.
To activate and configure a plan, perform the following steps:
Note: Plans 11, 12, and 13 support Windows worker-based Kubernetes clusters on vSphere with NSX-T, and are a beta feature on vSphere with Flannel. To configure a Windows worker plan see Plans in Configuring Windows Worker-Based Kubernetes Clusters for more information.
1
, 3
, or 5
. Note: If you deploy a cluster with multiple control plane/etcd node VMs, confirm that you have sufficient hardware to handle the increased load on disk write and network traffic. For more information, see Hardware recommendations in the etcd documentation.
In addition to meeting the hardware requirements for a multi-control plane node cluster, we recommend configuring monitoring for etcd to monitor disk latency, network latency, and other indicators for the health of the cluster. For more information, see Configuring Telegraf in TKGI.
WARNING: To change the number of control plane/etcd nodes for a plan, you must ensure that no existing clusters use the plan. Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition does not support changing the number of control plane/etcd nodes for plans with existing clusters.
Under Master/ETCD VM Type, select the type of VM to use for Kubernetes control plane/etcd nodes. For more information, including control plane node VM customization options, see the Control Plane Node VM Size section of VM Sizing for Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition Clusters.
Under Master Persistent Disk Type, select the size of the persistent disk for the Kubernetes control plane node VM.
Under Master/ETCD Availability Zones, select one or more AZs for the Kubernetes clusters deployed by Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition. If you select more than one AZ, Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition deploys the control plane VM in the first AZ and the worker VMs across the remaining AZs. If you are using multiple control plane nodes, Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition deploys the control plane and worker VMs across the AZs in round-robin fashion.
Note: Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition does not support changing the AZs of existing control plane nodes.
Note: Changing a plan’s Worker Node Instances setting does not alter the number of worker nodes on existing clusters. For information about scaling an existing cluster, see Scale Horizontally by Changing the Number of Worker Nodes Using the TKGI CLI in Scaling Existing Clusters.
Note: Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition requires a Worker VM Type with an ephemeral disk size of 32 GB or more.
Under Worker Persistent Disk Type, select the size of the persistent disk for the Kubernetes worker node VMs.
Under Worker Availability Zones, select one or more AZs for the Kubernetes worker nodes. Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition deploys worker nodes equally across the AZs you select.
Under Kubelet customization - system-reserved, enter resource values that Kubelet can use to reserve resources for system daemons. For example, memory=250Mi, cpu=150m
. For more information about system-reserved values, see the Kubernetes documentation.
EVICTION-SIGNAL=QUANTITY
. For example, memory.available=100Mi, nodefs.available=10%, nodefs.inodesFree=5%
. For more information about eviction thresholds, see the Kubernetes documentation. WARNING: Use the Kubelet customization fields with caution. If you enter values that are invalid or that exceed the limits the system supports, Kubelet might fail to start. If Kubelet fails to start, you cannot create clusters.
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as a separator. For more information, see Adding Custom Linux Workloads.Note: Enabling the Allow Privileged
option means that all containers in the cluster will run in privileged mode. Pod Security Policy provides a privileged parameter that can be used to activate or deactivate Pods running in privileged mode. As a best practice, if you activate Allow Privileged
, define PSP to limit which Pods run in privileged mode. If you are implementing PSP for privileged pods, you must activate Allow Privileged
mode.
Note: To use PodSecurityPolicy features, you must use Ops Manager v2.10.17 or later.
0
, the node drain does not terminate.(Optional) Under Pod Shutdown Grace Period (seconds), enter a timeout in seconds for the node to wait before it forces the pod to terminate. If you set this value to -1
, the default timeout is set to the one specified by the pod.
(Optional) To configure when the node drains, activate the following:
Warning: If you select Force node to drain even if pods are still running after timeout, the node halts all running workloads on pods. Before enabling this configuration, set Node Drain Timeout to a value greater than 0
.
For more information about configuring default node drain behavior, see Worker Node Hangs Indefinitely in Troubleshooting.
Click Save.
To deactivate a plan, perform the following steps:
In the procedure below, you use credentials for vCenter master VMs. You must have provisioned the service account with the correct permissions. For more information, see Create the Master Node Service Account in Preparing vSphere Before Deploying Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition.
To configure your Kubernetes cloud provider settings, follow the procedure below:
Ensure the values in the following procedure match those in the vCenter Config section of the Ops Manager tile: u
Enter your vCenter Master Credentials. Enter the vCenter Server user name using the format user@domainname
, for example: “[email protected]”.
The user name cannot contain a backslash (\
) character; TKGI does not support user names with the format Domain\User
.
For more information about the master node service account, see Preparing vSphere Before Deploying Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition.
Warning: The vSphere Container Storage Plug-in will not function if you do not specify the domain name for active directory users.
Enter your vCenter Host. For example, vcenter-example.com
.
example-dc
.Enter your Datastore Name. For example, example-ds
. Populate Datastore Name with the Persistent Datastore name configured in your BOSH Director tile under vCenter Config > Persistent Datastore Names. Enter only a single Persistent datastore in the Datastore Name field.
StorageClass
does not define a StoragePolicy
. Do not enter a datastore that is a list of BOSH Job/VMDK datastores. For more information, see PersistentVolume Storage Options on vSphere.pks_vms
.To configure networking, do the following:
Under Container Networking Interface, select Antrea.
Antrea is selected as the default Container Networking Interface (CNI). VMware recommends that you use Antrea as your CNI.
Note: Support for the Flannel Container Networking Interface (CNI) is deprecated. VMware recommends that you switch your Flannel CNI-configured clusters to the Antrea CNI. For more information about Flannel CNI deprecation, see About Switching from the Flannel CNI to the Antrea CNI in About Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition Upgrades.
Note: This setting does not set the proxy for running Kubernetes workloads or pods.
To complete your global proxy configuration for all outgoing HTTP/HTTPS traffic from your Kubernetes clusters, perform the following steps:
http://myproxy.com:1234
.http://myproxy.com:1234
.Note: Using an HTTPS connection to the proxy server is not supported. HTTP and HTTPS proxy options can only be configured with an HTTP connection to the proxy server. You cannot populate either of the proxy URL fields with an HTTPS URL. The proxy host and port can be different for HTTP and HTTPS traffic, but the proxy protocol must be HTTP.
127.0.0.1
and localhost
in the No Proxy list.\*.
or .
. 127.0.0.1,localhost,
*.example1.com,
.example2.com,
example3.com,
198.51.100.0/24,
203.0.113.0/24,
192.0.2.0/24
Note: By default the 10.100.0.0/8
and 10.200.0.0/8
IP address ranges, .internal
, .svc
,.svc.cluster.local
, .svc.cluster
, and your Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition FQDN are not proxied. This allows internal Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition communication.
Do not use the _
character in the No Proxy field. Entering an underscore character in this field can cause upgrades to fail.
Because some jobs in the VMs accept \*.
as a wildcard, while others only accept .
, we recommend that you define a wildcard domain using both of them. For example, to denote example.com
as a wildcard domain, add both \*.example.com
and example.com
to the No Proxy property.
Under Allow outbound internet access from Kubernetes cluster vms (IaaS-dependent), ignore the Enable outbound internet access check box.
To configure the UAA server:
Under TKGI API Access Token Lifetime, enter a time in seconds for the TKGI API access token lifetime. This field defaults to 600
.
Under TKGI API Refresh Token Lifetime, enter a time in seconds for the TKGI API refresh token lifetime. This field defaults to 21600
.
600
.21600
. Note: VMware recommends using the default UAA token timeout values. By default, access tokens expire after ten minutes and refresh tokens expire after six hours.
roles
.oidc:
, UAA creates a group name like oidc:developers
. The default value is oidc:
.user_name
. Depending on your provider, you can enter claims besides user_name
, like email
or name
.oidc:
, UAA creates a user name like oidc:admin
. The default value is oidc:
. Warning: VMware recommends adding OIDC prefixes to prevent users and groups from gaining unintended cluster privileges. If you change the above values for a pre-existing Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition installation, you must change any existing role bindings that bind to a user name or group. If you do not change your role bindings, developers cannot access Kubernetes clusters. For instructions, see Managing Cluster Access and Permissions.
cluster_client
redirect_uri
URIs to your clusters. UAA redirect URIs configured in the TKGI cluster client redirect URIs field persist through cluster updates and TKGI upgrades.In Host Monitoring, you can configure monitoring of nodes and VMs using Syslog, VMware vRealize Log Insight (vRLI) Integration, or Telegraf.
You can configure one or more of the following:
stdout
and stderr
.For more information about these components, see Monitoring TKGI and TKGI-Provisioned Clusters.
To configure Syslog for all BOSH-deployed VMs in Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition:
Note: Logs might contain sensitive information, such as cloud provider credentials. VMware recommends that you enable TLS encryption for log forwarding.
*.YOUR-LOGGING-SYSTEM.com
.Note: You do not need to provide a new certificate if the TLS certificate for the destination syslog endpoint is signed by a Certificate Authority (CA) in your BOSH certificate store.
Note: Before you configure the vRLI integration, you must have a vRLI license and vRLI must be installed, running, and available in your environment. You need to provide the live instance address during configuration. For instructions and additional information, see the vRealize Log Insight documentation.
By default, vRLI logging is deactivated. To configure vRLI logging:Note: Deactivating certificate validation is not recommended for production environments.
0
means that the rate is not limited, which suffices for many deployments.Note: If your deployment is generating a high volume of logs, you can increase this value to limit network traffic. Consider starting with a lower value, such as 10
, then tuning to optimize for your deployment. A large number might result in dropping too many log entries.
Note: The Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition tile does not validate your vRLI configuration settings. To verify your setup, look for log entries in vRLI.
In In-Cluster Monitoring, you can configure one or more observability components and integrations that run in Kubernetes clusters and capture logs and metrics about your workloads. For more information, see Monitoring Workers and Workloads.
To configure in-cluster monitoring:
To configure sink resources, see:
You can enable both log and metric sink resources or only one of them.
You can monitor Kubernetes clusters and pods metrics externally using the integration with Wavefront by VMware.
Note: Before you configure Wavefront integration, you must have an active Wavefront account and access to a Wavefront instance. You provide your Wavefront access token during configuration. For additional information, see the Wavefront documentation.
To use Wavefront with Windows worker-based clusters, developers must install Wavefront to their clusters manually, using Helm.
To enable and configure Wavefront monitoring:
https://try.wavefront.com/api
The Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition tile does not validate your Wavefront configuration settings. To verify your setup, look for cluster and pod metrics in Wavefront.
You can monitor Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition Kubernetes clusters with VMware vRealize Operations Management Pack for Container Monitoring.
To integrate Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition with VMware vRealize Operations Management Pack for Container Monitoring, you must deploy a container running cAdvisor in your TKGI deployment.
cAdvisor is an open source tool that provides monitoring and statistics for Kubernetes clusters.
To deploy a cAdvisor container:
For more information about integrating this type of monitoring with TKGI, see the VMware vRealize Operations Management Pack for Container Monitoring User Guide and Release Notes in the VMware documentation.
You can configure TKGI-provisioned clusters to send Kubernetes node metrics and pod metrics to metric sinks. For more information about metric sink resources and what to do after you enable them in the tile, see Sink Resources in Monitoring Workers and Workloads.
To enable clusters to send Kubernetes node metrics and pod metrics to metric sinks:
DaemonSet
, a pod that runs on each worker node in all your Kubernetes clusters.(Optional) To enable Node Exporter to send worker node metrics to metric sinks of kind ClusterMetricSink
, select Enable node exporter on workers. If you enable this check box, Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition deploys Node Exporter as a DaemonSet
, a pod that runs on each worker node in all your Kubernetes clusters.
For instructions on how to create a metric sink of kind ClusterMetricSink
for Node Exporter metrics, see Create a ClusterMetricSink Resource for Node Exporter Metrics in Creating and Managing Sink Resources.
You can configure TKGI-provisioned clusters to send Kubernetes API events and pod logs to log sinks. For more information about log sink resources and what to do after you enable them in the tile, see Sink Resources in Monitoring Workers and Workloads.
To enable clusters to send Kubernetes API events and pod logs to log sinks:
DaemonSet
, a pod that runs on each worker node in all your Kubernetes clusters.Tanzu Mission Control integration lets you monitor and manage Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition clusters from the Tanzu Mission Control console, which makes the Tanzu Mission Control console a single point of control for all Kubernetes clusters. For more information about Tanzu Mission Control, see the VMware Tanzu Mission Control home page.
To integrate Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition with Tanzu Mission Control:
Confirm that the TKGI API VM has internet access and can connect to cna.tmc.cloud.vmware.com
and the other outbound URLs listed in the What Happens When You Attach a Cluster section of the Tanzu Mission Control Product documentation.
Navigate to the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition tile > the Tanzu Mission Control pane and select Yes under Tanzu Mission Control Integration.
Configure the fields below:
/
). For example, YOUR-ORG.tmc.cloud.vmware.com
.Tanzu Mission Control Cluster Group: Enter the name of a Tanzu Mission Control cluster group.
The name can be default
or another value, depending on your role and access policy:
Org Member
users in VMware cloud services have a service.admin
role in Tanzu Mission Control. These users:
default
cluster group.organization.admin
user grants them the clustergroup.admin
or clustergroup.edit
role for those groups.Org Owner
users in VMware cloud services have organization.admin
permissions in Tanzu Mission Control. These users:
clustergroup
roles to service.admin
users through the Tanzu Mission Control Access Policy view.For more information about role and access policy, see Access Control in the VMware Tanzu Mission Control Product documentation.
Warning: After the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition tile is deployed with a configured cluster group, the cluster group cannot be updated.
Note: When you upgrade your Kubernetes clusters and have Tanzu Mission Control integration enabled, existing clusters will be attached to Tanzu Mission Control.
Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition-provisioned clusters send usage data to the TKGI control plane for storage. The VMware Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP) and Telemetry Program provide the option to also send the cluster usage data to VMware to improve customer experience.
To configure Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition CEIP and Telemetry Program settings:
https://vcsa.vmware.com/ph
on port 443
.In Storage Configurations, you can configure vSphere CNS settings.
To configure vSphere CNS:
Select Storage.
(Optional) To enable automatic installation of the vSphere CSI driver on all clusters, activate vSphere CSI Driver Integration by selecting Yes.
Warning: If your environment includes Topology-Aware clusters, do not activate vSphere CSI Driver Integration before upgrading to TKGI v1.14. For more information, see Switch From the Manually Installed vSphere CSI Driver to the Automatic CSI Driver in Deploying and Managing Cloud Native Storage (CNS) on vSphere.
If you have existing clusters with a manually deployed vSphere CSI driver, remove the manually deployed driver after enabling this feature on the clusters. For more information, see Deploying Cloud Native Storage (CNS) on vSphere.
Errands are scripts that run at designated points during an installation.
To configure which post-deploy and pre-delete errands run for Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition:
Note: We recommend that you use the default settings for all errands except for the Run smoke tests errand.
(Optional) Set the Run smoke tests errand to On.
This errand uses the TKGI CLI to create a Kubernetes cluster and then delete it. If the creation or deletion fails, the errand fails and the installation of the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition tile is aborted.
(Optional) To ensure that all of your cluster VMs are patched, configure the Upgrade all clusters errand errand to On.
Updating the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition tile with a new Linux stemcell and the Upgrade all clusters errand enabled triggers the rolling of every Linux VM in each Kubernetes cluster. Similarly, updating the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition tile with a new Windows stemcell triggers the rolling of every Windows VM in your Kubernetes clusters.
Note: VMware recommends that you confirm stemcell version compatibility before using the Broadcom Support APIs to update the stemcells in your automated pipeline. For more information, see Retrieve Product Version Compatibilities from the Tanzu API in the Broadcom Support KB.
To modify the resource configuration of Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition, follow the steps below:
For each job, review the Automatic values in the following fields:
3
.2
or more. Warning: High availability mode is a beta feature. Do not scale your TKGI API or TKGI Database to more than one instance in production environments.
Note: The Automatic VM TYPE values match the recommended resource configuration for the TKGI API and TKGI Database jobs.
Under each job, leave NSX-T CONFIGURATION and NSX-V CONFIGURATION blank.
Warning: To avoid workload downtime, use the resource configuration recommended in About Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition Upgrades and Maintaining Workload Uptime.
To configure the TKGI API load balancer, follow the instructions in Configure TKGI API Load Balancer.