Service Installer for VMware Tanzu automates the deployment of the reference designs for Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations on the following platforms:
- Tanzu Kubernetes Grid on VMware Cloud
- Tanzu Kubernetes Grid on vSphere with NSX-T
- Tanzu Kubernetes Grid on vSphere running Virtual Distributed Switch (VDS)
- Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Service on vSphere running Virtual Distributed Switch (VDS)
Service Installer simplifies the deployment of a Kubernetes environment. It uses best practices for deploying and configuring the required Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations components, such as:
- Tanzu Kubernetes Grid
- NSX Advanced Load Balancer
- Shared services, such as Contour, Harbor, FluentBit, Prometheus, Grafana
- Integration with Tanzu Mission Controller
See the Release Notes for a summary of what's new in this release.
For the download location, see Release Notes.
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Download the Service Installer OVA.
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Deploy the Service Installer OVA on vCenter server using the Deploy OVF Template option and provide the required computer resources and storage details.
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Select Appliance network as Management network and specify the NTP server and the root password for the VM.
After the system configuration completes, the OVA deployment begins.
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After the deployment is completed, power on the Service Installer for the VMware Tanzu bootstrap VM.
You can access the Service Installer UI at
http://<Service-Installer-VM-IP>:8888/
.To access the Service Installer CLI, log in over SSH. Enter
ssh root@<Service-Installer-VM-IP>
.