Deploy TKG (1.5.2) on Azure as Private cluster using existing VNet and NAT gateway

Overview With Tanzu Kubernetes Grid, you can deploy Kubernetes clusters across software-defined datacenters (SDDC) and public cloud environments, including vSphere, Microsoft Azure, and Amazon EC2, providing organizations a consistent, upstream-compatible, regional Kubernetes substrate that is ready for end-user workloads and ecosystem integrations. In this post, I will explain the detailed steps to

TKG 1.4 on Azure – Part 6 : Delete the clusters

  This post covers the steps to delete the clusters that were deployed in TKG on Azure. Ensure to follow this doc only after double checking when NO APPLICATIONS ARE RUNNING. Cluster deletion completely wipes the pods running it. Delete workload cluster: Delete Management cluster: Management cluster deletion might usually take some time as

TKG 1.4 on Azure – Part 5 : Scaling operations

Scale management clusters: If you have deployed a development management cluster, like I did while creating i.e., with 1 control and worker nodes. You can scale the management clusters to production cluster type anytime using simple commands. In this post, I have covered manual scaling, but there is also auto scaling

TKG 1.4 on Azure – Part 3 : Create workload cluster

When you deploy Tanzu Kubernetes (workload) clusters to Microsoft Azure, you must specify options in the cluster configuration file to connect to your Azure account and identify the resources that the cluster will use. Create a yaml file with variables given in below template. for ex: wc-config.yaml  Note: Below example is

TKG 1.4 on Azure – Part 2: Deploy management cluster

In this post, we will go through the steps to create management cluster through UI. Select Deploy under Microsoft Azure Fill in TENANT ID, CLIENT ID, CLIENT SECRET, SUBSCRIPTION ID that is collected in earlier post. Select the Region where you would like that management cluster to be deployed. Paste

TKG 1.4 on Azure – Part 1: Prepare the resources

I am very thrilled to login to Azure portal to deploy TKG, I previously worked on Azure extensively for more than 2 years when I was working in Horizon cloud on Azure and really loved the way how microsoft constantly keeps updating its functionality. This post explains how to prepare