In this post I will try to describe how to use the new NSX and Avi together integration in vSphere with Tanzu in combination with several Supervisor clusters using only 1 NSX manager cluster and 1 Avi controller cluster

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In this post I am using ArgoCD bootstrapping Tanzu Kubernetes Clusters with AKO and Antrea configs

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In this post I will go through installation of TKGi, using the EPMC installer, then how to configure TKGi to use NSX Advanced LoadBalancer

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Tanzu Kubernetes Grid This post will go through how to deploy TKG 2.1, the management cluster, a workload cluster (or two), and the necessary preparations to be done on the underlaying infrastructure to support TKG 2.1. In this post I will use vSphere 8 with vSAN, Avi LoadBalancer, and NSX. So what we want to end up …

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NSX ALB has a very useful feature built-in, to function as DNS server for your domains defined in your NSX-ALB environment. Meaning that all host-records will be automatically resolved by fqdn as soon as the service is created. If you have followed my other post about how to configure the AKO (Avi Kubernetes Operator) …

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Abbreviations used in this article: NSX Advanced Load Balancer = NSX-ALB K8s = Kubernetes (8 letters between the K and s in Kubernetes) SSL = Secure Sockets Layer AKO = Avi Kubernetes Operator (AVI now a VMware product called NSX Advanced Load Balancer) In one of my previous posts I wrote about how to install and …

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This post will cover the steps to bring up a Kubernetes cluster in Ubuntu, then how to install and configure Antrea as CNI and how to install and configure NSX Advanced Load Balancer to use as a servicetype Load Balancer in the k8s environment with the use of Avi Kubernetes Operator. Abbreviations used in this post: …

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