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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”

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Tanzu Kubernetes Grid – Manual Certificate Renewal

The Issue Note: VMware has released a full in-depth KB Article that I’d advise you review along with this blog post. If you have any queries or concerns with the processes detailed, always open a support ticket! – How to rotate certificates in a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid cluster (86251) One day my Kubernetes cluster just … Continue reading Tanzu Kubernetes Grid – Manual Certificate Renewal

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VMware Cloud on AWS Deep Dive – Activating, Deploying and Using the managed Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Service

In this blog post I’m going to deep dive into the end-to-end activation, deployment, and consuming of the managed Tanzu Services (Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Service > TKGS) within a VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC. I’ll deploy a Tanzu Cluster inside a vSphere Namespace, and then deploy my trusty Pac-Man application and make it Publicly Accessible. … Continue reading VMware Cloud on AWS Deep Dive – Activating, Deploying and Using the managed Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Service

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Tanzu Service Mesh – Monitor Service Level Objectives and Configure Service Autoscaling

Continuing from the First Look blog post, where we created a distributed application between different public cloud Kubernetes deployments and connected them via Tanzu Service Mesh. We will move onto some of the more advanced capabilities of Tanzu Service Mesh. In this blog post, we’ll look at how we can setup monitoring of our application … Continue reading Tanzu Service Mesh – Monitor Service Level Objectives and Configure Service Autoscaling