vSphere with Tanzu DDS - Ep 4 - Creating a Namespace and Deploying a K8S Cluster

The fourth in a series of videos that walk you through the whole process of deploying and using vSphere with Tanzu. See below for chapter links.
This video gets into the good stuff - how to deploy an upstream Kubernetes Cluster to vSphere using vSphere with Tanzu. It goes into detail about how the vSphere admin configures a namespace, the delegation model and hand-off to the Kubernetes Cluster Admin, and then ultimately how to interact with vSphere to deploy a Tanzu Kubernetes Cluster.
Target audience: vSphere Admins and Kubernetes Admins
Chapters:
0:00 vSphere With Tanzu Deep Dive Series Ep 4
0:57 Validating and Troubleshooting
5:09 Creating a Namespace
10:30 Logging into a Namespace
20:27 Creating a Tanzu Kubernetes Cluster
27:34 Inspecting the Tanzu Kubernetes Cluster
32:08 Logging into the Tanzu Kubernetes Cluster
Other Links:
vSphere Documentation: docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSp...
GitHub link to scripts: github.com/corrieb/vspherewit...

[@dionrowney]

Where/when is the next episode?? We are on pins and needled here! Great series. This really shows what exactly Tansu and Kubernetes is. If you can take it further and show how it relates to docker and images that would be super. thanks!

[@VMwarevSphere]

Thanks! Went on vacation last week, so working on it now. Focus of next episode is sanity checking the Tanzu Kubernetes Cluster and how to work with the "least privilege" RBAC model. Happy to take requests, so will add something on Docker registry config (assuming that's what you meant)

[@soldout123456]

Great hands on series! we enabled workload management on vSpeher 7 for supervised clusters with this so far except somehow I missed mention for container registry? Wish we had a straight path to enable Harbor as our Workload management enabled Supervisor cluster with vSphere network (without NSX-T). Does that mean no Harbor or anything similar solution? Another way I found was only with Pivotal Ops manager then TKGI and so on but not sure if that is only another workaround or something else available? I followed all previous episodes and VMware docs but somehow found no mention of enabling Harbor especially if enabled with vSphere network option.Appreciate any help. Thank you once again for great hands on labs!

[@gregorkastelic]

Thank you for this, VERY informative. Also waiting next episode, especially troubleshooting. I am stuck at deploying .yaml, only Control Plane VM is deployed....

[@VMwarevSphere]

Have a look at github.com/corrieb/pacific/tree/master/docs/tkg-service/cluster-lifecycle. I put a lot in there that may help. It needs an update, but this is what I used to educate our internal Service teams