Installing Tanzu Community Edition on vSphere

Over the past year, I have heard much about VMware Tanzu, but have yet to experience what it is or how it works. Given my infrastructure background, I am interested in how it installs, and how does one maintain it long term. So with those questions in mind, I decided to try installing Tanzu Community Edition.

What is Tanzu? Tanzu is VMware’s productized version of Kubernetes, designed to run on AWS, Azure, and vSphere. There are multiple editions available including Basic, Standard, Advanced and Community. VMware provides a comparison between the different versions and what features they offer here: Compare VMware Tanzu Editions This blog post will focus on deploying the Community Edition on vSphere. The Community Edition is different from the commercial offerings, the cluster deployment, and management process is different when using the commercial offering.