Tag: Tanzu kubernetes grid

How to specify a Static IP Address on Kubernetes Ingress Objects with NSX-ALB (Avi)

How to specify a Static IP Address on Kubernetes Ingress Objects with NSX-ALB (Avi)

Helloooo! Lately I've been getting a lot of requests from customers on how they can leverage NSX-ALB to specify a Static IP Address on their L7 Ingress Objects in a Kubernetes based environment. So I decided to deep dive into it. It's no secret that you can specify a preferred Static IP Address for L4 … Continue reading How to specify a Static IP Address on Kubernetes Ingress Objects with NSX-ALB (Avi)

How to get started with Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKGS/TKGm) – Part 2

How to get started with Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKGS/TKGm) – Part 2

Hellooo!! This year I tried to focus more on creating video content & improving my public speaking skills. For which I have been grateful to host sessions on the VMUGBE, VMUGFR and 2 Tanzu Summer Schools in Belgium / Luxemburg. We also had the opportunity to create video content for our ITQ YouTube channel in … Continue reading How to get started with Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKGS/TKGm) – Part 2

How to get started with Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKGS/TKGm) – Part 1

How to get started with Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKGS/TKGm) – Part 1

As most of you have realized, this year has been a bit difficult for us to keep blogging and return to our normal lives after Covid situation. More and more customers wants some face-to-face meetings and some traffic jam here and there during the commute. Together with my colleague, @vdgmichael , we have been always … Continue reading How to get started with Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKGS/TKGm) – Part 1

TKGs – Quick Tip – How to integrate External Container Registry in vSphere with Tanzu

Hello! After you've enabled Workload Management in vSphere it is a good time to make TKGs trust your own Container Registry if you have one. In my case it's a Nexus Repository 3 listening on port 5000 on IP address 10.10.60.15. You'll also need the SSL Certificate of your Container Registry. In order to tell … Continue reading TKGs – Quick Tip – How to integrate External Container Registry in vSphere with Tanzu

TKG/TCE – Quick Tip – How to SSH easily into your TKG/TCE Nodes using SSH Public Key Authentication

Hi! Lately I've been playing around with TKG & TCE a bit. If you've deployed TKG/TCE Clusters yourself too, you know that at some point you needed to provide an SSH key-pair so you could easily access the TKG/TCE Nodes afterwards. But how exactly? You need to use the 'capv' user and your SSH key … Continue reading TKG/TCE – Quick Tip – How to SSH easily into your TKG/TCE Nodes using SSH Public Key Authentication

TCE – How to deploy a Standalone Cluster on vSphere 7

TCE – How to deploy a Standalone Cluster on vSphere 7

Hellooo again! After the easy setup of TCE (see my blogpost here) it's time to deploy a simple small development Tanzu Standalone Cluster on vSphere. Let's do this! My Setup? My Setup looks as follows: vCenter 7.0.2Intel NUC NUC10i5FNH ESXi 7.0.1 with 8 Logical CPUs & 32 GB RAMMacBook Pro (x86; not M1) as Bootstrap … Continue reading TCE – How to deploy a Standalone Cluster on vSphere 7

How to Install Tanzu Community Edition (TCE)

How to Install Tanzu Community Edition (TCE)

Hellooo again! It's time to play around with the Tanzu Community Edition (TCE)! I would love to use the Tanzu Platform to run my Containerized Applications in my Lab, however the footprint of real Tanzu Platforms (such as TKGI, TKGS, TKGm) is too high for my humble home lab. I managed to setup all these … Continue reading How to Install Tanzu Community Edition (TCE)

How to install Nexus Repository OSS on CentOS 7

How to install Nexus Repository OSS on CentOS 7

Hi! Today I wanted to share some simple installation steps on installing Nexus Repository OSS on CentOS 7. Nexus Repository OSS is a free, open source artifact repository with universal format support provided by Sonatype. More information can be found here. Goal In my case I want to configure a Proxy Repository for Docker Container … Continue reading How to install Nexus Repository OSS on CentOS 7