I installed Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) this weekend!

Good morning/afternoon/evening, these days have been hectic, for good or for bad during this pandemic situation, there’s a lot of work! Days full of Zoom calls are good to continue having that contact with our customers, but bad for blogging. 🙂

Nevertheless, I couldn’t wait to share my experience installing in my home lab Vmware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid, that is GA since last Thursday 4/9/2020. I have to admit that I did my first tries installing it manually without using Cluster API / Cluster API Provider vSphere (CAPI/CAPV), and I was unsuccessful; but using now the TKG CLI it’s a breeze.

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Deploy Dell EMC Isilon CSI Driver for Kubernetes

In this post I’m going to explain how I configured my homelab to integrate a Kubernetes cluster with the Dell EMC Isilon CSI driver. I had to create a new cluster as the plugin has specific requirements:

  • support for Kubernetes 1.14
  • supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 host operating system
  • supports Isilon OneFS versions 8.1 and 8.2
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