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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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How to Deploy a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid cluster using the Cilium CNI

In this blog post I’m going to dive into how you can create a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid cluster and specify your own container network interface, for example, Cilium. Expanding on the installation, I’ll also cover installing a load balancer service, deploying a demo app, and showing some of the observability feature as well. What is … Continue reading How to Deploy a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid cluster using the Cilium CNI

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VMware Cloud on AWS – Managed Tanzu Kubernetes Grid with Tanzu Mission Control

In my previous blog post, I detailed a full end to end guide in deploying and configurating the managed Tanzu Kubernetes Service offering as part of VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC), finishing with some example application deployments and configurations. In this blog post, I am moving on to show you how to integrate this environment … Continue reading VMware Cloud on AWS – Managed Tanzu Kubernetes Grid with Tanzu Mission Control

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Tanzu Kubernetes Grid – Upgrading a Management and Workload Cluster deployed to vSphere

In this blog post, I am going to walk through how to upgrade both your Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Management and Workload clusters. I’ll cover the Tanzu CLI options, as well as how you can leverage the features of Tanzu Mission Control for upgrades as well. For my example use cases, I’ll be upgrading from TKG … Continue reading Tanzu Kubernetes Grid – Upgrading a Management and Workload Cluster deployed to vSphere

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Tanzu Mission Control – Upgrading attached Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Clusters fails with error “updates to immutable fields are not allowed”

The Issue When trying to upgrade an attached Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Cluster via Tanzu Mission Control (TMC), that is either created by a Tanzu Management Cluster, or via the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Service (vSphere with Tanzu), the console gives you an error message similar to: API Error: Failed to upgrade cluster: (target=mc:01G4BGAVKHHB6C3JJ5R0WA44NM, intentId=01G4CMP025ZHEBQ000E4SM996H): admission webhook … Continue reading Tanzu Mission Control – Upgrading attached Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Clusters fails with error “updates to immutable fields are not allowed”