Bootstrapping Cluster Essentials for VMware Tanzu

Use this project to deploy Cluster Essentials for VMware Tanzu to your favorite Kubernetes cluster, without having to deal with a local installation first.

The deployment is done the Kubernetes way: a pod is responsible for downloading bits from Tanzu Network (using your credentials), and installing everything.

No need to install anything on your local workstation. This is great news when it comes to automating the installation of Cluster Essentials: you're just one kubectl apply away from bootstraping your installation.

Or even better, with a GitOps-based approach.

How to use it?

You obviously need a Kubernetes cluster, and the kubectl CLI. That's all you need.

Download the latest release archive, and unzip it:

unzip tanzu-cluster-essentials-bootstrap.zip && cd tanzu-cluster-essentials-bootstrap

In order to download bits from Tanzu Network, you need to provide your credentials.

Create a file bootstrap-secrets.yaml (starting from bootstrap-secrets.yaml.template), and edit accordingly:

apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: tanzu-cluster-essentials-bootstrap-credentials
  namespace: tanzu-cluster-essentials-bootstrap
type: Opaque
stringData:
  INSTALL_REGISTRY_USERNAME: johndoe@corp.com
  INSTALL_REGISTRY_PASSWORD: changeme

You're almost done!

Run this command to deploy Cluster Essentials to your Kubernetes cluster:

kubectl apply -f .

A Kubernetes Job is created, which will spawn a Pod instance taking care of the deployment. If the deployment is successful, the Pod is terminated and will eventually be removed by Kubernetes.

Enjoy!

Contribute

Contributions are always welcome!

Feel free to open issues & send PR.

License

Copyright © 2023 VMware, Inc. or its affiliates.

This project is licensed under the Apache Software License version 2.0.