VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition (TKGI) enables operators to provision, operate, and manage enterprise-grade Kubernetes clusters using BOSH and Ops Manager.
Overview
Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition deploys Kubernetes to BOSH and Ops Manager, and uses the On-Demand Broker to dynamically instantiate, deploy, and manage highly-available Kubernetes clusters on-premises or on a public cloud.
After operators install TKGI, developers can use the TKGI Command Line Interface (TKGI CLI) to provision Kubernetes clusters, and run container-based workloads on the clusters with the Kubernetes CLI, kubectl.
Operators install TKGI as a tile on the Ops Manager Installation Dashboard, or from the TKGI Management Console on vSphere.
You can run TKGI standalone or alongside VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs on Ops Manager.
What Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition Adds to Kubernetes
The following table details the features that Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition adds to the Kubernetes platform.
| Feature | Included in K8s | Included in Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition |
|---|---|---|
| Single tenant ingress | ✓ | ✓ |
| Secure multi-tenant ingress | ✓ | |
| Stateful sets of pods | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multi-container pods | ✓ | ✓ |
| Rolling upgrades to pods | ✓ | ✓ |
| Rolling upgrades to cluster infrastructure | ✓ | |
| Pod scaling and high availability | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cluster provisioning and scaling | ✓ | |
| Monitoring and recovery of cluster VMs and processes | ✓ | |
| Persistent disks | ✓ | ✓ |
| Secure container registry | ✓ | |
| Embedded, hardened operating system | ✓ |
Features
Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition has the following features:
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Kubernetes compatibility: Constant compatibility with current stable release of Kubernetes
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Production-ready: Highly available from applications to infrastructure, with no single points of failure
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BOSH advantages: Built-in health checks, scaling, auto-healing and rolling upgrades
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Fully automated operations: Fully automated deploy, scale, patch, and upgrade experience
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Multi-cloud: Consistent operational experience across multiple clouds
Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition Prerequisites
For information about the resource requirements for installing Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition, see the topic that corresponds to your cloud provider:
