Creating and Managing TKG 2.5 Workload Clusters on vSphere with the Tanzu CLI

This publication explains how to use the Tanzu CLI to create and manage Kubernetes clusters created by Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) 2.5.x standalone management clusters.

Important

If you are using TKG with a vSphere IaaS control plane (formerly vSphere with Tanzu) Supervisor, see the vSphere IaaS control plane docs.

By connecting the Tanzu CLI to a standalone management cluster, you can use the Tanzu CLI and other interfaces to run high-level management operations that configure, create, extend, monitor, and otherwise manage workload clusters, to serve as a distributed and enterprise-ready infrastructure for hosting containerized apps.

Note

Tanzu Kubernetes Grid 2.x refers to how the latest versions of the Tanzu CLI (shipped with TKG v2.x) work with TKG 2.5.x management clusters. Specifically, TKG 2.x uses improved Cluster object definitions backed by a new ClusterClass object type defined in version v1.x (v1beta1) of the Cluster API open-source toolset for Kubernetes cluster management. These redesigned cluster objects are simpler, more modular, and more cross-compatible than the corresponding objects in previous versions of Cluster API used by TKG 1.x.

Get Started with TKG and the Tanzu CLI

If you already installed the Tanzu CLI and used it to deploy standalone management clusters, you can start Creating Workload Clusters directly.

Other TKG Documentation

This publication covers using the Tanzu CLI with standalone TKG 2.5.x management clusters. Other TKG publications cover the following subjects.

What do you want to do?	Documentation
Find out more about TKG	About Tanzu Kubernetes Grid
Deploy a standalone management cluster with TKG v2.5	Deploying and Managing TKG 2.5 Standalone Management Clusters
Learn the Tanzu CLI commands	Installing and Using VMware Tanzu CLI v1.3.x