Category Archives: VCF Supervisor Services and Kubernetes

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 »

Monitoring VKS Clusters in VCF Operations

By | 24. October 2025

Thanks to Meera Menon for her help on this topic! One value proposition of the VCF Platform is that it manages both, VM-based as well as Kubernetes-based workloads. VCF includes the vSphere Supervisor Services, which provide the capability of deploying fully supported Kubernetes Clusters. VCF Automation makes sure that consumers can provision VMs, other resources… Read More »