Getting started with the VMware Edge Cloud Orchestrator service is easy. The following list provides an overview of requirements to set up your first host.

  1. Accessing the VMware Edge Cloud Orchestrator Service

  2. Downloading the VMware Edge Cloud Orchestrator Media

  3. Setting Up a Git Repository

  4. Deploying VMware Edge Cloud Orchestrator Hosts

    1. Deploying a Physical Host

    2. Deploying a Virtual VMware Edge Cloud Orchestrator Host

  5. Associating a VMware Edge Cloud Orchestrator Host to a Git Repository

  6. Configuring VMware Edge Cloud Orchestrator Hosts

  7. Deploying Workloads

    1. Kubernetes Containers

    2. Deploying Virtual Machines

The VMware Edge Cloud Orchestrator Deployment Architecture shows the basic architecture of the VMware Edge Cloud Orchestrator service and its relationship to the VMware Edge Cloud Orchestrator SaaS service, and its Git repository. A typical VMware Edge Cloud Orchestrator service host connects to a Git repository to pull its desired state information for the infrastructure (every five minutes), VMs and containers, telemtry is provided from the host to enable basic monitoring from the VMware Edge Cloud Orchestrator SaaS Service. The VMware Edge Cloud Orchestrator hosts are designed to work in environments that have limited, inconsistent, or no network connectivity.

Figure 1. VMware Edge Cloud Orchestrator Deployment Architecture