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 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 »
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 »
Within our new All Apps organization, we leverage Supervisor Services that are accessible through Kubernetes as well as VMware Cloud Foundation Automation.This post walks through deploying VMware Data Services Manager (DSM) as a Supervisor Service and using it to create databases automatically through the Automation portal. Deploy DSM Appliance In vCenter open the Administration Menü… Read More »
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 »
So, you’ve made it to VMware Cloud Foundation 9, and you’re dreaming of a production-grade, highly available Kubernetes setup. You want Supervisor spread across three fault domains like a proper cloud-native boss. Well… buckle up, because this ain’t your usual click-click-done setup. Why? Because the vCenter GUI forgot something important (again 😅). But fear not—I’m… Read More »