Managing the Lifecycle of Tanzu Kubernetes Clusters

As a platform operator or infrastructure operator, you can use VMware Tanzu Mission Control to register Tanzu Kubernetes Grid management clusters, provision new workload clusters, and manage the lifecycle of these clusters.

When you register a management cluster (Tanzu Kubernetes Grid or Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Service), you can bring all of its workload clusters under the management of Tanzu Mission Control, which allows you to facilitate consistent management using all of the capabilities of Tanzu Mission Control, as well as provisioning resources and creating new clusters directly from Tanzu Mission Control.

Note: Version 2.5 of Tanzu Kubernetes Grid does not support deployment of clusters to AWS or Azure. To manage the lifecycle of clusters on these platforms using Tanzu Mission Control, you can create a credential to connect to your account, and then deploy and manage native EKS/AKS clusters.

For more information about managing the lifecycle of Tanzu Kubernetes clusters, see Cluster Lifecycle Management in VMware Tanzu Mission Control Concepts.