VMware Telco Cloud Automation (TCA) Deploying CaaS Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) Workload Cluster

Please go through my previous Posts –

1. Basic Overview of Telco (PNFs, VNFs, CNFs) and VMware Telco Cloud Automation – https://kdinesh.in/tca/
2. VMware Telco Cloud Automation Manager and Control Plane Deployment and Configuration – https://kdinesh.in/vmware-telco/
3. VMware Telco Cloud Automation (TCA) CaaS Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) Management Cluster Deployment – https://kdinesh.in/tca-2/

Log in to TCA > CaaS Infrastructure > click on Workload Cluster (V1).

Select resource Provider (It will show all the available Resource Provider Infrastructure). Click on Next.

Select Management Cluster (It will show All the deployed Management Clusters selected based on your requirement). Click on Next.

Enter Cluster Name, Password, and Cluster VIP. Select OS template, Harbor Repository (I Already Integrated TCA with Harbor, and also in Template selected tool harbor), vSphere Cluster, Resource pool, VM Folder, Datastore, MTU (Optional), Domain Name servers. Click on Next.

For control Planes – Select vSphere Cluster, Resource Pool, Datastore, Network, and Domain name servers. Click on Next.

For workload nodes – Select vSphere Cluster, Resource Pool, Datastore, Network, and Domain name servers. Click on Next.

Review all the configurations and click on Deploy. The deployment will take approx —20 to 30 min.

You can expand Cluster and can see deployment progress. You can see that My deployment was completed successfully.

You can also log in to the cluster using Cluster VIP and check the cluster node status.

You can see two nodes are there in vCenter.

In the Partner system option, Harbor is registered with Cluster.

In Virtual Infrastructure, you can see the workload cluster registered.