VMware TKG helper

Some helper commands to manage Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Standalone Cluster Management. These commands aim to help the following use cases

• Install the Tanzu CLI
• Prepare vSphere
• Deploy a standalone management cluster
• Upgrade a management cluster

Some specific features

• Find out what files are required to download in order to setup a specific TKG release version
• Automatically download and install the Tanzu CLI for a specific standalone TKG version (including kubectl)
• List the avilable versions of TKG that is published on VMware Customer Connect
• Download a specific file for a TKG version, such as a OVA file

Demo

Installation

Easiest way is to use docker, and run from the container image. The container image is based from vmware/powerclicore image.

docker image pull ghcr.io/martencassel/vmware-tkg:latest
docker run -it --rm  -v $(pwd):/host -e VCC_USR=${VCC_USER} -e VCC_PASS=${VCC_PASS} ghcr.io/martencassel/vmware-tkg:latest

Authentication

The Customer Connect username and password needs to be set in your environment using the following variables:

Example below for Linux:

export VCC_USER='email@email.com'
export VCC_PASS='##'

Usage

The examples below assume that you are running from the container image,

  docker run -it --rm  -v $(pwd):/host -e VCC_USR=${VCC_USER} -e VCC_PASS=${VCC_PASS} ghcr.io/martencassel/vmware-tkg:latest
  
  # List all versions of TKG
  get-tkg-versions.sh
  
  '2.5.0' '2.4.1' '2.4.0' '2.3.1' '2.3.0' '2.2.0' '2.1.1' '2.1.0' '1.6.1' '1.6.0' '1.5.4' '1.5.3' '1.5.2' '1.5.1' '1.5.0' '1.4.3' '1.4.2' '1.4.1' '1.4.0' '1.3.1' '1.3.0' '1.2.1' '1.2.0' '1.1.3' '1.1.2' '1.1' '1.0'

  # Download TKG cli binaries (tanzu cli and kubectl) to the current working directory.
  get-tanzu-cli.sh 2.1.1
  
  ...
  ./tanzu version
  ./kubectl version --short

  # List files available from Customer Connect for a specific TKG version
  get-tkg-files.sh 2.1.0

  # Download a specific file from a TKG release on Customer Connect
  get-tkg-file.sh 2.1.0 kubectl-linux-v1.24.9+vmware.1.gz kubectl-linux-v1.24.9+vmware.

  # Download a specific OVA for a TKG release
  get-tkg-file.sh 2.1.0 photon-3-kube-v1.24.9+vmware.1-tkg.1-f5e94dab9dfbb9988aeb94f1ffdc6e5e.ova photon-3-kube-v1.24.9+vmware.1-tkg.1-f5e94dab9dfbb9988aeb94f1ffdc6e5e.ova

Known Issues

TODO

Testing

TODO

Building and running container

make
make run

Publishing to ghcr.io

make
make publish

License

Apache License