Recap and Intro

In Part I of my blog series on the Supervisor Services in vSphere with Tanzu (TKGS), I introduced the overall concept, the idea, the requirements as well as how to register and install a new Supervisor Service in vSphere.

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Furthermore, I covered the feature vSphere Pods and how they come to beneficial use for the Supervisor Services.

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In this second part, I’m going to demonstrate how the Kubernetes Ingress Controller Service (Contour) will be used for serving a vSphere Pod based web-shop application with Ingress functionalities. Also, I’m going over the NSX-side of the house in terms of networking, the distributed firewall as well as troubleshooting when using vSphere Pods in TKGS.

To begin with, if you are familiar with vSphere Pods in general, you can skip the first chapter of this post and directly go to the chapter Supervisor Services.

Recap - Embed Containers and Kubernetes into vSphere

When VMware released vSphere 7 back in 2020, it was announced that under the hood a lot of architectural efforts flowed into VMware’s core platform. These efforts had to be done in order to embed containers and Kubernetes into vSphere, to unify them with virtual machines as first class citizens.

Using Windows Fileserver shares in Kubernetes? This post introduce how this can be achieved by installing and using the SMB CSI driver for Kubernetes.

The open-source container registry Harbor supports the configuration of webhook endpoints. Harbor notifies the webhook endpoint of certain events that occur in a project. However, the event sent is not delivered as a CloudEvent. By leveraging the power of VEBA/Knative the non-CloudEvent can be send to a webhook function to get transformed in a CloudEvent. By transforming the event, other functions can be subscribed to the new event to ultimately get triggered. As a use case for it, I'm going to describe how ChatOps can be enabled using event-driven automation.

Knative is the most popular platform to run Serverless workload on Kubernetes and to build event-driven architectures. This posts introduces two demo-scripts which will support you when presenting on Knative's power in the mentioned disciplines.

Learn how to make container images available in a shareable format, to support e.g. air-gapped deployments, using the Docker CLI or imgpkg by Carvel.