Install and configure on-premises components for a vSphere with Tanzu deployment

On vSphere, enabling vSphere with Tanzu creates a Supervisor cluster. You can then provision Kubernetes workload clusters on the vSphere with Tanzu infrastructure where Supervisor operates as the management cluster.

For information about vSphere with Tanzu, see What is vSphere with Tanzu.

Install and configure the on-premises components in the sequence described in the following sections.

Deploy VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer

VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer provides dynamically scaling load balancing endpoints for Tanzu Kubernetes clusters provisioned by the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Service.

NSX Advanced Load Balancer provides layer 7 capabilities that are not available with NSX-T. Use NSX Advanced Load Balancer for a stronger security profile.

For information about configuring NSX Advanced Load Balancer on vSphere with Tanzu, see Install and Configure the NSX Advanced Load Balancer.

Enable Workload Management with vSphere networking

Enable Workload Management to deploy a Kubernetes cluster on vSphere with Tanzu. A Supervisor Cluster becomes available by default when you enable Workload Management.

For information about enabling Workload Management in vSphere with Tanzu, see Enable a One-Zone Supervisor with vSphere Networking.

Deploy Tanzu Kubernetes clusters

There are multiple options for deploying Tanzu Kubernetes clusters on Supervisor.

For information about provisioning TKG clusters on Supervisor, see Provisioning TKG 2 Clusters on Supervisor.