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Tanzu Kubernetes Grid 1.6 – Management Cluster deployment failure – unable to patch the cluster object

The Issue When deploying a brand new Tanzu Kubernete Grid Management Cluster to a vSphere environment we kept hitting failures like the below. The deployment was very vanilla with the default settings, no extra metadata inputted into the build. !! [1223 15:26:17.84239]: init.go:732] Failure while deploying management cluster, Here are some steps to investigate the … Continue reading Tanzu Kubernetes Grid 1.6 – Management Cluster deployment failure – unable to patch the cluster object

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vRSLCM – SaltStack Config upgrade fails – LCMUPGRADEVSSC10103

The Issue When upgrading to vRA SaltStack Config 8.9 using vRealize Suite LifeCycle Manager, I found I hit an issue stating that the upgrade failed as the VAMI version of the appliance was already at the build number to be expected. Below is a copy of the error message: LCMUPGRADEVSSC10103 Error Code: LCMUPGRADEVSSC10103 VAMI upgrade … Continue reading vRSLCM – SaltStack Config upgrade fails – LCMUPGRADEVSSC10103

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Deploying a Windows VM using vRealize Automation & configuring with SaltStack Config – Part 1

In this two-part blog post series, I’m going to detail what I consider a basic customer use case when deploying new Windows Servers in their environment. Deploy a Windows Server Virtual Machine Add to the Active Directory Domain Install software Configure some system settings To achieve this, I’m going to use vRealize Automation to deploy … Continue reading Deploying a Windows VM using vRealize Automation & configuring with SaltStack Config – Part 1

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Openshift-install CLI Tool – Crash – Unable to decode instructions – Apple MacBook M1

The Issue When running the OpenShift-Install CLI tool on my Apple MacBook M1 to create an OpenShift Cluster I kept hitting the same error: assertion failed [inst.has.value()]: failed to decode instruction: 0x0 The Cause This is believed to be an issue created with the use of Rosetta 2 and Golang, and is somewhat documented on … Continue reading Openshift-install CLI Tool – Crash – Unable to decode instructions – Apple MacBook M1

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EKS – Kubectl – Unable to connect to the server – Exec plugin is configured to use API version client.authentication.k8s.io/v1alpha1

The Issue After moving my life over to a new Macbook and installing the latest AWS CLI tools including “aws-iam-authenticator” tool, I couldn’t run commands against my EKS Clusters. I kept hitting the following issue; > kubectl get pods Unable to connect to the server: getting credentials: exec plugin is configured to use API version client.authentication.k8s.io/v1alpha1, … Continue reading EKS – Kubectl – Unable to connect to the server – Exec plugin is configured to use API version client.authentication.k8s.io/v1alpha1