Instantiate TPS Container Network Function

The section provides procedure to instantiate applications in VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance using tps.csar file.

1. Launch VMware Telco Cloud Automation and navigate to Catalog > Network Function.
2. Select TPS CNF, click the vertical ellipsis (⋮) and then click Instantiate.
3. Under Inventory Detail, enter Name and select the VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid workload cluster on which you want to deploy it.

   

4. Under Helm Charts, enter the Namespace as tps-system and select Repository URL as <oci://<registryRootUrl>>.
   Note: Use the same registryRootUrl as specified during the push artifacts to registry step.

   

5. Click Next.
6. Under Network Function Properties, click Next.

   

7. In the Inputs section, update the following parameters:
   1. Set registryRootUrl to the same value as the --registry-url parameter of the installer script in the Push Artifacts to Registry topic.
   2. For the imagePullSecret (Optional) field, do not change the default value.
   3. Set cloud as tkg.
   4. You need not update the following optional parameters:
      • domainName (Optional)
      • clusterName (Optional)
      • storageClass (Optional)
   5. Set product as tcsa.
   6. Generate the values-merged.yaml file by performing the following steps.
      1. Configure the values-user-overrides.yaml file for the production footprint. For more information, see Configuration Production Footprint for TCA.
      2. Generate the values-merged.yaml file by running the command mentioned in the Run tcxctl merge Command section.
      3. Copy the values-merged.yaml file that is generated in the previous step to your local machine used to access VMware Telco Cloud Automation.
      4. Update the postgres.helmOverrides.updateNamespace.enabled to true in the values-merged.yaml file downloaded to your local machine.
         Note: The following example is a code snippet from the values-merged.yaml file.

         postgres:
             enabled: true
             helmOverrides:
               updateNamespace:
                 enabled: true  (set namespace to true before upgrade)
                 oldNamespace: default

   7. Upload the values-merged.yaml file generated to VMware Telco Cloud Automation by using the Browse option in the Input tab of the Instantiation wizard.
      Note:
   
8. Under Review, click Next.
9. Click Instantiate.
10. Once the Instantiation is successful, check the VMware TCx platform services (TPS) status by running the following command from deployment VM:

    root [ ~/upgrade/tcx-deployer/scripts ]# kubectl get tcxproduct -A

    OR

    root [ ~/upgrade/tcx-deployer/scripts ]# kubectl get apps -A
    

    For all the apps, the reconciliation status must be successful.

    root [ ~/upgrade/tcx-deployer/scripts ]# kubectl get tcxproduct -A
    NAMESPACE    NAME                                            STATUS            READY   MESSAGE                               AGE
    tps-system   tcx-platfor-9dfce-goibb-tcx-platform-services   updateCompleted   True    All App CRs reconciled successfully   34h

    Note: After successful deployment, you can launch the VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance UI. For more information, see Accessing UI topic.