Monthly Archives: February 2026

VCF 9 – VKS Clusters with External-DNS

By | 19. February 2026

My peer Christian Liebner has already created a blog related to external-dns. While he is focussing on External-DNS as supervisor service and its benefit for VM deployments, this blog here has a deeper look into the the more generic capabilities of External-DNS for VKS Clusters. So, what is external-dns (sometimes also referred to as ExtDNS)?… Read More »

VCF 9 – VKS Clusters with Contour

By | 16. February 2026

VCF 9 provides fully integrated Kubernetes support. This starts with a supervisor installation that in a nutshell enables Kubernetes on the ESX hosts. Finally, it allows provisioning of vSphere Kubernetes Clusters within a namespace. There’s also the capability to leverage supervisor services which are delivered by VMware directly on the supervisor clusters. Find here the… Read More »

VCF Automation 9 – Automating Microsoft DNS Entries for VMs via ExternalDNS Service in Supervisor

By | 6. February 2026

DNS entries are a critical component when provisioning virtual machines. To simplify this process, this blog post demonstrates how to leverage the ExternalDNS Service within the VCF 9 Supervisor to automate the creation of DNS records directly in Microsoft DNS. Where in VM-Apps-Org this usually has been done by an extensibility workflow (e.g. Orchestrator), in… Read More »