February, 2021 - vxCoronado

VMware Tanzu MySQL Operator on vSphere with Tanzu

This weeking I decided to play a little with the VMware Tanzu MySQL that is still on beta deploying it to my vSphere with Tanzu Basic infrastructure. I used as guide the official documentation so if you want more details you can go there. In this blog I’m documenting the specifics or my testing so if you want to follow you will require the following prerequisites:

Prerequisites:

Access to Tanzu MySQL for Kubernetes in VMware Tanzu Network Registry.
Helm installed in your machine.
Kubectl
Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Service in my case, vSphere with Tanzu Basic (without NSX-T)

Kubernetes Home Cloud with Raspberry Pi

How I setup my local Kubernetes cluster on Raspberry Pi using k3s to run different network services for my homelab

When you are running a home lab like mine, that is a dual use equipment – I use a Dell Precision 7750 dual booting ESXi 7.0U1 and Ubuntu 18.04- it gets cumbersome to host some basic services as VMs inside your enviroment like DNS and NTP.

Dell Precision 7750. Dual Boot Ubuntu 18.04 and ESXi 7.0U1

So looking for a cheap way to run this kind of services outside of my virtual enviroment I started to use a old Raspberry Pi 2, running basic dnsmasq and ntpd to get this kind of services.