You provision Tanzu Kubernetes clusters by invoking the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Service declarative API. Once a cluster is provisioned, you manage it and deploy workloads to it using kubectl.
The workflow provides a high-level overview of the provisioning process. Each of the steps has links for more information about the specific task.
Prerequisites
Verify with your vSphere administrator that the following prerequisites tasks are completed:
- vSphere with Tanzu (Workload Management) is enabled for your data center. See Configuring and Managing a Supervisor Cluster.
- A Supervisor Namespace is created and configured. See Create and Configure a vSphere Namespace. The following items are required:
- Edit permissions are added for one or more DevOps engineers to access the Supervisor Cluster using vCenter Single Sign-On credentials.
- A tag-based storage policy is defined and associated with the Supervisor Namespace. See Using Storage in vSphere with Tanzu.
- Capacity and usage quotas are verified and adjusted, as necessary.
- A Content Library is created on a shared datastore. See Creating and Managing Content Libraries.