Tag Archives: VKS

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 »

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 »

Deploying a Three-Zone Supervisor in VCF 9.0.0 (Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the API)

By | 31. July 2025

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 »