Tanzu User Guide: Creating A Tanzu Kubernetes Guest Cluster

This sample YAML file can be copied and bolded items must be modified for usage in your own environment.

apiVersion: run.tanzu.vmware.com/v1alpha1 #tkg api endpoint

kind: TanzuKubernetesCluster #required parameter

metadata:

  name: tkc-118 #cluster name, user defined

  namespace: kg-ns1 #supervisor namespace

spec:

  distribution:

    version: v1.18 #resolved kubernetes version

  topology:

    controlPlane:

      count: 3 #number of master nodes

      class: guaranteed-medium (1) #vmclass for master nodes

      storageClass: cns-vmfs (2) #storageclass for master nodes

    workers:

      count: 3 #number of worker nodes

      class: guaranteed-medium (1) #vmclass for worker nodes

      storageClass: cns-vmfs (2) #storageclass for worker nodes

1. You can use the command kubectl get virtualmachineclasses to see what classes are available to you to use within your Namespace.
2. You can use the command kubectl get sc to see what storageclasses are available to use within your Namespace. Please note that as of this documentation release in June of 2021, it is required to use a VMFS datastore to deploy the Tanzu Kubernetes Guest Cluster nodes to.

   The below demo video shows how to create a Tanzu Kubernetes Cluster with the FlashArray using the YAML file above.

   In this article we provide a sample YAML file for creating a Tanzu Kubernetes Guest Cluster and the associated technical demo video.