Paving into VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid

VMware Tanzu Kubernetes has reached general availability. It provides an enterprise-ready way to streamline operations for Kubernetes, and some other fun stuff. As a fun thought experiment, I incorporated the TKG cluster into an existing Pivotal Paving motion.

Run Paving

As a prequisite, run Pivotal Paving on your AWS environment to create the necessary VPC and subnets for TKG to leverage.

Generate Cluster Manifest

Once you've created your paved AWS environment, we'll need to change some stuff in TKG.

Run the following:

# Where you checked out paving
cd ~/workspace/paving/aws
terraform output stable_config > ~/workspace/paving-tkg/stable_config.json
# Where you checked out this repo
cd ~/workspace/paving-tkg/
# This is a default location
ytt --ignore-unknown-comments --data-value-file stable_config=stable_config.json \
    -f ~/.tkg/providers/infrastructure-aws/v0.5.2/cluster-template-dev.yaml \
    -f overlay-vpc.yaml \
        -f values.yaml > ~/.tkg/providers/infrastructure-aws/v0.5.2/cluster-template-paving.yaml

# Now just init tkg with the paving plan.
tkg init --infrastructure aws:v0.5.2 -p paving --name capa

That's it. Enjoy your TKG in the same VPC as Tanzu Application Service!