Deploy a Kubernetes Cluster on vSphere from MacOS with TCE
This TCE documentation page is the best guide from here on out.
Create a Tanzu Kubernetes VM Template in vSphere
Download a Photon or Ubuntu OVA as the base for your template from here. I tried both and was more successful with Ubuntu. YMMV.
Once the OVA is deployed to vSphere, convert the VM to a vSphere template. You can follow the instructions in that page ^^ if you need any help with the template steps.
Start the Tanzu Community Edition Installer
(NB: Start | install/start Docker on your Mac before running the next command. I did not do that and felt like an idiot.)
$ tanzu management-cluster create --ui
Validating the pre-requisites...
Serving kickstart UI at http://127.0.0.1:8080
If everything is working, the Welcome to the Tanzu Community Edition Installer will automagically be loaded in a new browser tab on your Mac
Choose the VMware vSphere Deploy button
Step 1: IaaS Provider
Fill in your vCenter credentials and click Connect
Verify the vCenter SSL thumbprint and click Continue
Paste in the RSA public key that you will use to ssh to the Kubernetes components running in vSphere. If you do not have an RSA private/public key pair already, just run these commands:
$ ssh-keygen -t rsa Generating public/private rsa key pair. Enter file in which to save the key (/Users/faucherd/.ssh/id_rsa): Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): Enter same passphrase again: Your identification has been saved in /Users/faucherd/.ssh/id_rsa. Your public key has been saved in /Users/faucherd/.ssh/id_rsa.pub. The key fingerprint is: SHA256:ChangeMeO1NcPBKWyEVTrgzj39LO5dRx9YGOTQIOKhE faucherd@dennis-mbp The key's randomart image is: +---[RSA 3072]----+ | E.. =*+. | | . Boo=. . | | . .= o.=. o ..| | .. O = .* +| | o S .. o. o| | Scary . o | | B = o o . | | . * + + | | ... o . | +----[SHA256]-----+ $ pbcopy < ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
Now your public key is in your Clipboard buffer and you can paste it into the Installer “SSH Public Key” field (I hid some of mine)
