Tanzu vSphere 7 with Kubernetes on NSX-T 3.0 VDS Install Part 1: Overview

Tanzu vSphere 7 with Kubernetes on NSX-T 3.0 VDS Installation Part 1: Overview, Design, Network Topology, Hardware Used Part 2: ESXi, vCenter, VDS Config and NSX-T Manager Part 3: NSX-T Edges, Segments, Tier-0 Routing Part 4: Supervisor Cluster, Content Library, TKG Clusters Part 5: Testing, Demo Apps Lets start with the Why: There are going to be a lot of people going to blog about vSphere 7 with Kubernetes and you probably thinking why do I want to do it. ...

Tanzu vSphere 7 with Kubernetes on NSX-T 3.0 VDS Install Part 3: NSX-T Edges, Segments, Tier-0 Routing

In this section, we will configure NSX-T such as setting up the Transport Nodes, Edge VMs, configure Layer 2 Segments, Tier-0 uplinks and the routing required in preparation for vSphere with Kubernetes. Step 0 – Prerequisite, as this guide is broken down into multiple sections and this section is mostly focus on the NSX-T Manager, it would be good to ensure that the following are configured. This will prevent switching back and forth between vCenter and NSX-T Manager. ...

Kubernetes with NSX-T Container Plugin Demo List

I have been doing Kubernetes with NSX-T demonstrations to my customers and many of my colleagues and partners have been asking for the demo list. Here is the list. Create a NO-NAT namespace Deploy Yelb App with NSX-T K8s Service Type Load Balancer Native Routable IP Address for Pod Networking K8s Ingress with developer specified domain K8s Labels and Container Micro-segmentation Distributed Firewall K8s Network Policy translated into Distributed Firewall Rules ...

Active Active Kubernetes Clusters Design Architecture

Kubernetes clusters that is Master Nodes and Worker Nodes were designed to work in a Local Area Network(LAN) environment. They are not recommended to be distributed across multiple Data Centers. 2 Data Centers Active Active Design If you have 2 Data Centers, I would recommend the following design for Active Active setup. Dedicated Kubernetes Clusters for each DC Applications would be deployed twice, once in each DC Use of a Global Site Load Balancer (GSLB) such as F5 GTM, AVI Networks, A10 to direct Ingress traffic to each Kubernetes Clusters Have security controls such as software based network firewalls to be able to support Kubernetes Network Policy. ...