The Container Service Extension 4.0 has been released with several significant improvements and additional use cases, including Cluster API, lifecycle management through a user interface, GPU support for Kubernetes clusters, and integration with VMware Cloud Director as infrastructure. With its feature-rich user interface, customers can perform operations such as creation, scaling, and upgrading on Tanzu Kubernetes clusters. However, some customers may seek automation support for these same operations.
This blog post is intended for customers who are looking to automate the provisioning of Tanzu Kubernetes clusters on the VMware Cloud Director Tenant portal using the VMware Cloud Director API. Although the VCD API is supported, the blog post is necessary because the Cluster API is used to create and manage TKG clusters on VCD. The payload required to perform operations on TKG clusters requires some work to provide the Cluster API-generated payload. The blog post outlines the step-by-step process for generating the correct payload for customers using their VCD infrastructure.
Version Support:
This API guide is applicable to clusters created by CSE 4.0 and CSE 4.0.1 Tanzu Kubernetes Clusters.
The existing prerequisites for customers to create TKG clusters in their organizations also apply to the automation flow. These prerequisites are summarized here and can be found in the official documentation to onboard Provider and Tenant Admin users. The following sections provide an overview of the requirements for both cloud provider administrators and Tenant Admin users.
Cloud Provider Admin Steps
The Steps to onboard the customers is demonstrated in this video and documented here. Once customer organization and its users are onboarded, they can use next section to use APIs, or consume it to create automated Cluster operations.
As a quick summary following steps are expected to be performed by cloud provider to onboard and prepare the customer:
- Review Interoperability Matrix to support Container Service Extension 4.0 and 4.0.1
- Allow necessary communication for CSE server
- Start CSE server and Onboard customer organization (Reference Demo and Official Documentation)
Customer Org Admin Steps
When the cloud provider has onboarded the customer onto the Container Service Extension, the organization administrator must create and assign users with the capability to create and manage TKG clusters for the customer organization. This documentation outlines the procedure for creating a user with the “Kubernetes cluster author” role within the tenant organization.
It is then assumed that the user “acmekco” has obtained the necessary resources and access within the customer organization to execute Kubernetes cluster operations.
Generate ‘capiyaml’ payload
- Collect VCD Infrastructure and Kubernetes Cluster details
This Operation requires following information for VCD tenant portal. The right column describes example values used as reference in this blog post.
| Input | Example value for this blog |
| VCD_SITE | VCD Address (https://vcd-01a.local) |
| VCD_ORGANIZATION | Customer Organization name(ACME) |
| VCD_ORGANIZATION_VDC | Customer OVDC name (ACME_VDC_T) |
| VCD_ORGANIZATION_VDC_NETWORK | Network name in customer org (172.16.2.0) |
| VCD_CATALOG | CSE shared catalog name (cse) |
Table -1 Infrastructure details
| Input | Example value for this blog |
| VCD_TEMPLATE_NAME | Kubernetes and TKG version of the cluster(Ubuntu 20.04 and Kubernetes v1.22.9+vmware.1) |
| VCD_CONTROL_PLANE_SIZING_POLICY | Sizing policy of control plane vms(TKG small) |
| VCD_CONTROL_PLANE_STORAGE_PROFILE | Storage profile for control plane of the cluster (Capacity) |
| VCD_CONTROL_PLANE_PLACEMENT_POLICY | Optional – Leave empty if not using |
| VCD_WORKER_SIZING_POLICY | Sizing policy of worker nodes vms(TKG small) |
| VCD_WORKER_PLACEMENT_POLICY | Optional – Leave empty if not using |
| VCD_WORKER_STORAGE_PROFILE | Storage profile for control plane of the cluster (Capacity) |
| CONTROL_PLANE_MACHINE_COUNT | 1 |
| WORKER_MACHINE_COUNT | 1 |
| VCD_REFRESH_TOKEN_B64 | “MHB1d0tXSllVb2twU2tGRjExNllCNGZnVWZqTm5UZ2U=” Ref VMware Doc to Generate token before transforming it to Base64 |
Table 2- Kubernetes Cluster properties
- Install required tools to generate the capiyaml. User can use any Operating System or a Virtual Machine(including Linux, Mac or Windows) to generate the payload.
- Once the tenant user has collected all the information, user will have to install following components such as Clusterctl 1.1.3, Kind(0.17.0), and Docker (20.10.21) on end user’s machine. The following step requires above collected information, and not the access to VCD Infrastructure to generate capiyaml payload.
- Copy TKG CRS Files locally. Incase the TKG version is missing from the folder, make sure you have the templates created for the desired TKG versions. The Following table provides supported list of etc, coredns, tkg, tkr versions for CSE 40 and CSE 4.0.1 release. Alternatively this script to fetch the same values from Tanzu Kubernetes Grid resources.
| Kubernetes Version | Etcd ImageTag | CoreDNS ImageTag | Complete Unique Version | OVA | TKG Product Version | TKr version |
| v1.22.9+vmware.1 | v3.5.4_vmware.2 | v1.8.4_vmware.9 | v1.22.9+vmware.1-tkg.1 | ubuntu-2004-kube-v1.22.9+vmware.1-tkg.1-2182cbabee08edf480ee9bc5866d6933.ova | 1.5.4 | v1.22.9—vmware.1-tkg.1 |
| v1.21.11+vmware.1 | v3.4.13_vmware.27 | v1.8.0_vmware.13 | v1.21.11+vmware.1-tkg.2 | ubuntu-2004-kube-v1.21.11+vmware.1-tkg.2-d788dbbb335710c0a0d1a28670057896.ova | 1.5.4 | v1.21.11—vmware.1-tkg.3 |
| v1.20.15+vmware.1 | v3.4.13_vmware.23 | v1.7.0_vmware.15 | v1.20.15+vmware.1-tkg.2 | ubuntu-2004-kube-v1.20.15+vmware.1-tkg.2-839faf7d1fa7fa356be22b72170ce1a8.ova | 1.5.4 | v1.20.15—vmware.1-tkg.2 |
Table 3 – Kubernetes, Etcd, Coredns for relavant Tanzu Kubernetes versions for CSE 4.0, 4.0.1
mkdir ~/infrastructure-vcd/ cd ~/infrastructure-vcd mkdir v1.0.0 cd v1.0.0
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mkdir ~/infrastructure-vcd/ cd ~/infrastructure-vcd mkdir v1.0.0 cd v1.0.0 |
v1.0.0% ls -lrta total 280 drwxr-xr-x 3 bhatts staff 96 Jan 30 16:41 .. drwxr-xr-x 6 bhatts staff 192 Jan 30 16:42 crs -rw-r–r– 1 bhatts staff 9073 Jan 30 16:56 cluster-template-v1.20.8-crs.yaml -rw-r–r– 1 bhatts staff 9099 Jan 30 16:56 cluster-template-v1.20.8.yaml -rw-r–r– 1 bhatts staff 9085 Jan 30 16:57 cluster-template-v1.21.8-crs.yaml -rw-r–r– 1 bhatts staff 9023 Jan 30 16:57 cluster-template-v1.21.8.yaml -rw-r–r– 1 bhatts staff 9081 Jan 30 16:57 cluster-template-v1.22.9-crs.yaml -rw-r–r– 1 bhatts staff 9019 Jan 30 16:57 cluster-template-v1.22.9.yaml -rw-r–r– 1 bhatts staff 9469 Jan 30 16:57 cluster-template.yaml -rw-r–r– 1 bhatts staff 45546 Jan 30 16:58 infrastructure-components.yaml -rw-r–r– 1 bhatts staff 165 Jan 30 16:58 metadata.yaml -rw-r–r– 1 bhatts staff 3355 Jan 30 18:53 clusterctl.yaml drwxr-xr-x 13 bhatts staff 416 Jan 30 18:53 . crs % ls -lrta total 0 drwxr-xr-x 6 bhatts staff 192 Jan 30 16:42 . drwxr-xr-x 4 bhatts staff 128 Jan 30 16:42 tanzu drwxr-xr-x 4 bhatts staff 128 Jan 30 16:51 cni drwxr-xr-x 4 bhatts staff 128 Jan 30 16:54 cpi drwxr-xr-x 6 bhatts staff 192 Jan 30 16:55 csi drwxr-xr-x 13 bhatts staff 416 Jan 30 18:53 ..
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v1.0.0% ls -lrta total 280 drwxr-xr-x 3 bhatts staff 96 Jan 30 16:41 .. drwxr-xr-x 6 bhatts staff 192 Jan 30 16:42 crs -rw-r–r– 1 bhatts staff 9073 Jan 30 16:56 cluster-template-v1.20.8-crs.yaml -rw-r–r– 1 bhatts staff 9099 Jan 30 16:56 cluster-template-v1.20.8.yaml -rw-r–r– 1 bhatts staff 9085 Jan 30 16:57 cluster-template-v1.21.8-crs.yaml -rw-r–r– 1 bhatts staff 9023 Jan 30 16:57 cluster-template-v1.21.8.yaml -rw-r–r– 1 bhatts staff 9081 Jan 30 16:57 cluster-template-v1.22.9-crs.yaml -rw-r–r– 1 bhatts staff 9019 Jan 30 16:57 cluster-template-v1.22.9.yaml -rw-r–r– 1 bhatts staff 9469 Jan 30 16:57 cluster-template.yaml -rw-r–r– 1 bhatts staff 45546 Jan 30 16:58 infrastructure-components.yaml -rw-r–r– 1 bhatts staff 165 Jan 30 16:58 metadata.yaml -rw-r–r– 1 bhatts staff 3355 Jan 30 18:53 clusterctl.yaml drwxr-xr-x 13 bhatts staff 416 Jan 30 18:53 .
crs % ls -lrta total 0 drwxr-xr-x 6 bhatts staff 192 Jan 30 16:42 . drwxr-xr-x 4 bhatts staff 128 Jan 30 16:42 tanzu drwxr-xr-x 4 bhatts staff 128 Jan 30 16:51 cni drwxr-xr-x 4 bhatts staff 128 Jan 30 16:54 cpi drwxr-xr-x 6 bhatts staff 192 Jan 30 16:55 csi drwxr-xr-x 13 bhatts staff 416 Jan 30 18:53 .. |
- Copy the ~/infrastructure-vcd/v1.0.0/clusterctl.yaml to ~/.cluster-api/clusterctl.yaml.
- The ‘clusterctl‘ command uses clusterctl.yaml from ~/.cluster-api/clusterctl.yaml to create the capiyaml payload. Update the infrastructure details from the first step in this document.
- Update the providers.url in ~/.cluster-api/clusterctl.yaml to ~/infrastructure-vcd/v1.0.0/infrastructure-components.yaml.
providers: – name: “vcd” url: “~/infrastructure-vcd/v1.0.0/infrastructure-components.yaml” type: “InfrastructureProvider”
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providers: – name: “vcd” url: “~/infrastructure-vcd/v1.0.0/infrastructure-components.yaml” type: “InfrastructureProvider” |
- At this point your ~/cluster-api/clusterctl.yaml values should look as follows
At this point, we will need a kind cluster to install clusterctl to generate the payload. In this step, create Kind cluster to generate capiyaml payload and initialize clusterctl as follows:
cat > kind-cluster-with-extramounts.yaml < 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 cat > kind-cluster-with-extramounts.yaml < kind: Cluster apiVersion: kind.x-k8s.io/v1alpha4 nodes: – role: control-plane extraMounts: – hostPath: /var/run/docker.sock containerPath: /var/run/docker.sock EOF Create a local cluster on mac // This can be similarly executed on choice of your operating system. kind create cluster –config kind-cluster-with-extramounts.yaml kubectl cluster-info –context kind-kind kubectl config set-context kind-kind kubectl get po -A -owide clusterctl init –core cluster-api:v1.1.3 -b kubeadm:v1.1.3 -c kubeadm:v1.1.3 Update the below tkg labels to “Kind: Cluster” object and annotations. OLD Metadata: apiVersion: cluster.x-k8s.io/v1beta1 kind: Cluster metadata: labels: ccm: external cni: antrea csi: external name: api5 namespace: default New Metadata: apiVersion: cluster.x-k8s.io/v1beta1 kind: Cluster metadata: labels: cluster-role.tkg.tanzu.vmware.com/management: “” tanzuKubernetesRelease: v1.21.8—vmware.1-tkg.2 tkg.tanzu.vmware.com/cluster-name: api5 annotations: osInfo: ubuntu,20.04,amd64 TKGVERSION: v1.4.3 name: api5 namespace: api5-ns 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 OLD Metadata: apiVersion: cluster.x-k8s.io/v1beta1 kind: Cluster metadata: labels: ccm: external cni: antrea csi: external name: api5 namespace: default New Metadata: apiVersion: cluster.x-k8s.io/v1beta1 kind: Cluster metadata: labels: cluster-role.tkg.tanzu.vmware.com/management: “” tanzuKubernetesRelease: v1.21.8—vmware.1-tkg.2 tkg.tanzu.vmware.com/cluster-name: api5 annotations: osInfo: ubuntu,20.04,amd64 TKGVERSION: v1.4.3 name: api5 namespace: api5-ns Following section describes all supported API operations for Tanzu Kubernetes Cluster on VMware Cloud Director: List all clusters in the customer organization. for CSE 4.0 release the CAPVCD version is 1. GET https://{{vcd}}/cloudapi/1.0.0/entities/types/vmware/capvcdCluster/1 GET https://{{vcd}}/cloudapi/1.0.0/entities/types/vmware/capvcdCluster/1 Filter Cluster by name GET https://{{vcd}}/cloudapi/1.0.0/entities/types/vmware/capvcdCluster/1?filter=name==clustername GET https://{{vcd}}/cloudapi/1.0.0/entities/types/vmware/capvcdCluster/1?filter=name==clustername Get cluster by ID: GET https://{{vcd}}/cloudapi/1.0.0/entities/id GET https://{{vcd}}/cloudapi/1.0.0/entities/id Get Kubeconfig of the cluster: GET https://{{vcd}}/cloudapi/1.0.0/entities/id GET https://{{vcd}}/cloudapi/1.0.0/entities/id The Kubeconfig can be found as follows at: entity.status.capvcd.private.kubeconfig POST https://{{vcd}}/cloudapi/1.0.0/entityTypes/urn:vcloud:type:vmware:capvcdCluster:1.1.0 “entityType”: “urn:vcloud:type:vmware:capvcdCluster:1.1.0”, “name”: “demo”, “externalId”: null, “entity”: { “kind”: “CAPVCDCluster”, “spec”: { “vcdKe”: { “isVCDKECluster”: true, “markForDelete”: false, “forceDelete”: false, “autoRepairOnErrors”: true }, “capiYaml”: “”apiVersion: cluster.x-k8s.io/v1beta1nkind: Clusternmetadata:n labels:n cluster-role.tkg.tanzu.vmware.com/management: “”n tanzuKubernetesRelease: v1.22.9—vmware.1-tkg.2n tkg.tanzu.vmware.com/cluster-name: api4n name: api4n namespace: api4-nsn annotations:n osInfo: ubuntu,20.04,amd64n TKGVERSION: v1.5.4nspec:n clusterNetwork:n pods:n cidrBlocks:n – 100.96.0.0/11n serviceDomain: cluster.localn services:n cidrBlocks:n – 100.64.0.0/13n controlPlaneRef:n apiVersion: controlplane.cluster.x-k8s.io/v1beta1n kind: KubeadmControlPlanen name: api4-control-planen namespace: api4-nsn infrastructureRef:n apiVersion: infrastructure.cluster.x-k8s.io/v1beta1n kind: VCDClustern name: api4n namespace: api4-nsn—napiVersion: v1ndata:n password: “”n refreshToken: WU4zdWY3b21FM1k1SFBXVVp6SERTZXZvREFSUXQzTlE=n username: dG9ueQ==nkind: Secretnmetadata:n name: capi-user-credentialsn namespace: api4-nsntype: Opaquen—napiVersion: infrastructure.cluster.x-k8s.io/v1beta1nkind: VCDClusternmetadata:n name: api4n namespace: api4-nsnspec:n loadBalancerConfigSpec:n vipSubnet: “”n org: starkn ovdc: vmware-cloudn ovdcNetwork: private-snatn site: https://vcd.tanzu.labn useAsManagementCluster: falsen userContext:n secretRef:n name: capi-user-credentialsn namespace: api4-nsn—napiVersion: infrastructure.cluster.x-k8s.io/v1beta1nkind: VCDMachineTemplatenmetadata:n name: api4-control-planen namespace: api4-ns nspec:n template:n spec:n catalog: CSE-Templatesn diskSize: 20Gin enableNvidiaGPU: falsen placementPolicy: nulln sizingPolicy: TKG smalln storageProfile: lab-shared-storagen template: Ubuntu 20.04 and Kubernetes v1.22.9+vmware.1n—napiVersion: controlplane.cluster.x-k8s.io/v1beta1nkind: KubeadmControlPlanenmetadata:n name: api4-control-planen namespace: api4-nsnspec:n kubeadmConfigSpec:n clusterConfiguration:n apiServer:n certSANs:n – localhostn – 127.0.0.1n controllerManager:n extraArgs:n enable-hostpath-provisioner: “true”n dns:n imageRepository: projects.registry.vmware.com/tkgn imageTag: v1.8.4_vmware.9n etcd:n local:n imageRepository: projects.registry.vmware.com/tkgn imageTag: v3.5.4_vmware.2n imageRepository: projects.registry.vmware.com/tkgn initConfiguration:n nodeRegistration:n criSocket: /run/containerd/containerd.sockn kubeletExtraArgs:n cloud-provider: externaln eviction-hard: nodefs.available<0%,nodefs.inodesFree<0%,imagefs.available<0%n joinConfiguration:n nodeRegistration:n criSocket: /run/containerd/containerd.sockn kubeletExtraArgs:n cloud-provider: externaln eviction-hard: nodefs.available<0%,nodefs.inodesFree<0%,imagefs.available<0%n users:n - name: rootn sshAuthorizedKeys:n - ""n machineTemplate:n infrastructureRef:n apiVersion: infrastructure.cluster.x-k8s.io/v1beta1n kind: VCDMachineTemplaten name: api4-control-planen namespace: api4-nsn replicas: 1n version: v1.22.9+vmware.1n---napiVersion: infrastructure.cluster.x-k8s.io/v1beta1nkind: VCDMachineTemplatenmetadata:n name: api4-md-0n namespace: api4-nsnspec:n template:n spec:n catalog: CSE-Templatesn diskSize: 20Gin enableNvidiaGPU: falsen placementPolicy: nulln sizingPolicy: TKG smalln storageProfile: lab-shared-storagen template: Ubuntu 20.04 and Kubernetes v1.22.9+vmware.1n---napiVersion: bootstrap.cluster.x-k8s.io/v1beta1nkind: KubeadmConfigTemplatenmetadata:n name: api4-md-0n namespace: api4-nsnspec:n template:n spec:n joinConfiguration:n nodeRegistration:n criSocket: /run/containerd/containerd.sockn kubeletExtraArgs:n cloud-provider: externaln eviction-hard: nodefs.available<0%,nodefs.inodesFree<0%,imagefs.available<0%n users:n - name: rootn sshAuthorizedKeys:n - ""n---napiVersion: cluster.x-k8s.io/v1beta1nkind: MachineDeploymentnmetadata:n name: api4-md-0n namespace: api4-nsnspec:n clusterName: api4n replicas: 1n selector:n matchLabels: nulln template:n spec:n bootstrap:n configRef:n apiVersion: bootstrap.cluster.x-k8s.io/v1beta1n kind: KubeadmConfigTemplaten name: api4-md-0n namespace: api4-nsn clusterName: api4n infrastructureRef:n apiVersion: infrastructure.cluster.x-k8s.io/v1beta1n kind: VCDMachineTemplaten name: api4-md-0n namespace: api4-nsn version: v1.22.9+vmware.1n" }, "apiVersion": "capvcd.vmware.com/v1.1" } } 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 POST https://{{vcd}}/cloudapi/1.0.0/entityTypes/urn:vcloud:type:vmware:capvcdCluster:1.1.0 “entityType”: “urn:vcloud:type:vmware:capvcdCluster:1.1.0”, “name”: “demo”, “externalId”: null, “entity”: { “kind”: “CAPVCDCluster”, “spec”: { “vcdKe”: { “isVCDKECluster”: true, “markForDelete”: false, “forceDelete”: false, “autoRepairOnErrors”: true }, “capiYaml”: “”apiVersion: cluster.x-k8s.io/v1beta1nkind: Clusternmetadata:n labels:n cluster-role.tkg.tanzu.vmware.com/management: “”n tanzuKubernetesRelease: v1.22.9—vmware.1-tkg.2n tkg.tanzu.vmware.com/cluster-name: api4n name: api4n namespace: api4-nsn annotations:n osInfo: ubuntu,20.04,amd64n TKGVERSION: v1.5.4nspec:n clusterNetwork:n pods:n cidrBlocks:n – 100.96.0.0/11n serviceDomain: cluster.localn services:n cidrBlocks:n – 100.64.0.0/13n controlPlaneRef:n apiVersion: controlplane.cluster.x-k8s.io/v1beta1n kind: KubeadmControlPlanen name: api4-control-planen namespace: api4-nsn infrastructureRef:n apiVersion: infrastructure.cluster.x-k8s.io/v1beta1n kind: VCDClustern name: api4n namespace: api4-nsn—napiVersion: v1ndata:n password: “”n refreshToken: WU4zdWY3b21FM1k1SFBXVVp6SERTZXZvREFSUXQzTlE=n username: dG9ueQ==nkind: Secretnmetadata:n name: capi-user-credentialsn namespace: api4-nsntype: Opaquen—napiVersion: infrastructure.cluster.x-k8s.io/v1beta1nkind: VCDClusternmetadata:n name: api4n namespace: api4-nsnspec:n loadBalancerConfigSpec:n vipSubnet: “”n org: starkn ovdc: vmware-cloudn ovdcNetwork: private-snatn site: https://vcd.tanzu.labn useAsManagementCluster: falsen userContext:n secretRef:n name: capi-user-credentialsn namespace: api4-nsn—napiVersion: infrastructure.cluster.x-k8s.io/v1beta1nkind: VCDMachineTemplatenmetadata:n name: api4-control-planen namespace: api4-ns nspec:n template:n spec:n catalog: CSE-Templatesn diskSize: 20Gin enableNvidiaGPU: falsen placementPolicy: nulln sizingPolicy: TKG smalln storageProfile: lab-shared-storagen template: Ubuntu 20.04 and Kubernetes v1.22.9+vmware.1n—napiVersion: controlplane.cluster.x-k8s.io/v1beta1nkind: KubeadmControlPlanenmetadata:n name: api4-control-planen namespace: api4-nsnspec:n kubeadmConfigSpec:n clusterConfiguration:n apiServer:n certSANs:n – localhostn – 127.0.0.1n controllerManager:n extraArgs:n enable-hostpath-provisioner: “true”n dns:n imageRepository: projects.registry.vmware.com/tkgn imageTag: v1.8.4_vmware.9n etcd:n local:n imageRepository: projects.registry.vmware.com/tkgn imageTag: v3.5.4_vmware.2n imageRepository: projects.registry.vmware.com/tkgn initConfiguration:n nodeRegistration:n criSocket: /run/containerd/containerd.sockn kubeletExtraArgs:n cloud-provider: externaln eviction-hard: nodefs.available<0%,nodefs.inodesFree<0%,imagefs.available<0%n joinConfiguration:n nodeRegistration:n criSocket: /run/containerd/containerd.sockn kubeletExtraArgs:n cloud-provider: externaln eviction-hard: nodefs.available<0%,nodefs.inodesFree<0%,imagefs.available<0%n users:n - name: rootn sshAuthorizedKeys:n - ""n machineTemplate:n infrastructureRef:n apiVersion: infrastructure.cluster.x-k8s.io/v1beta1n kind: VCDMachineTemplaten name: api4-control-planen namespace: api4-nsn replicas: 1n version: v1.22.9+vmware.1n---napiVersion: infrastructure.cluster.x-k8s.io/v1beta1nkind: VCDMachineTemplatenmetadata:n name: api4-md-0n namespace: api4-nsnspec:n template:n spec:n catalog: CSE-Templatesn diskSize: 20Gin enableNvidiaGPU: falsen placementPolicy: nulln sizingPolicy: TKG smalln storageProfile: lab-shared-storagen template: Ubuntu 20.04 and Kubernetes v1.22.9+vmware.1n---napiVersion: bootstrap.cluster.x-k8s.io/v1beta1nkind: KubeadmConfigTemplatenmetadata:n name: api4-md-0n namespace: api4-nsnspec:n template:n spec:n joinConfiguration:n nodeRegistration:n criSocket: /run/containerd/containerd.sockn kubeletExtraArgs:n cloud-provider: externaln eviction-hard: nodefs.available<0%,nodefs.inodesFree<0%,imagefs.available<0%n users:n - name: rootn sshAuthorizedKeys:n - ""n---napiVersion: cluster.x-k8s.io/v1beta1nkind: MachineDeploymentnmetadata:n name: api4-md-0n namespace: api4-nsnspec:n clusterName: api4n replicas: 1n selector:n matchLabels: nulln template:n spec:n bootstrap:n configRef:n apiVersion: bootstrap.cluster.x-k8s.io/v1beta1n kind: KubeadmConfigTemplaten name: api4-md-0n namespace: api4-nsn clusterName: api4n infrastructureRef:n apiVersion: infrastructure.cluster.x-k8s.io/v1beta1n kind: VCDMachineTemplaten name: api4-md-0n namespace: api4-nsn version: v1.22.9+vmware.1n" }, “apiVersion”: “capvcd.vmware.com/v1.1” } } GET https://{{vcd}}/cloudapi/1.0.0/entities/types/vmware/capvcdCluster/1?filter=name==clustername GET https://{{vcd}}/cloudapi/1.0.0/entities/types/vmware/capvcdCluster/1?filter=name==clustername PUT https://{{vcd}}/cloudapi/1.0.0/entities/{cluster-id from the GET API response} headers: Accept: application/json; value=37.0 Authorization: Bearer Token {token} If-Match: {eTag value from previous GET call} BODY: Copy entire body from the previous GET call, modify capiyaml values as described in above Modify step. PUT https://{{vcd}}/cloudapi/1.0.0/entities/{cluster-id from the GET API response} headers: Accept: application/json; value=37.0 Authorization: Bearer Token {token} If-Match: {eTag value from previous GET call} BODY: Copy entire body from the previous GET call, modify capiyaml values as described in above Modify step. To Upgrade a cluster, Provider admin needs to publish desired the Tanzu Kubernetes templates to the customer organization in catalog used by Container Service Extension. collect the GET API response for the cluster to be upgraded as follows: GET https://{{vcd}}/cloudapi/1.0.0/entities/types/vmware/capvcdCluster/1?filter=name==clustername GET https://{{vcd}}/cloudapi/1.0.0/entities/types/vmware/capvcdCluster/1?filter=name==clustername Table 4 – Example values to change in capiyaml payload for TKG 1.5.4 Kubernetes version 1.20.15 to 1.22.9 for CSE 4.0, 4.0.1 PUT https://{{vcd}}/cloudapi/1.0.0/entities/{cluster-id from the GET} headers: Accept: application/json; value=37.0 Authorization: Bearer Token PUT https://{{vcd}}/cloudapi/1.0.0/entities/{cluster-id from the GET} headers: Accept: application/json; value=37.0 Authorization: Bearer Token If-Match: < eTag value from previous GET call> BODY: Copy entire body from the previous GET call, modify capiyaml values as described in above step to modify capiyaml. GET https://{{vcd}}/cloudapi/1.0.0/entities/types/vmware/capvcdCluster/1?filter=name==clustername GET https://{{vcd}}/cloudapi/1.0.0/entities/types/vmware/capvcdCluster/1?filter=name==clustername PUT https://{{vcd}}/cloudapi/1.0.0/entities/{cluster-id from the GET API response} { “entityType”: “urn:vcloud:type:vmware:capvcdCluster:1.1.0”, “name”: “demo”, “externalId”: null, “entity”: { “kind”: “CAPVCDCluster”, “spec”: { “vcdKe”: { “isVCDKECluster”: true, –Add or modify the this field to delete the cluster “markForDelete”: true, — Add or modify the this field to force delete the cluster “forceDelete”: false, “autoRepairOnErrors”: true }, “capiYaml”: “ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 PUT https://{{vcd}}/cloudapi/1.0.0/entities/{cluster-id from the GET API response} { “entityType”: “urn:vcloud:type:vmware:capvcdCluster:1.1.0”, “name”: “demo”, “externalId”: null, “entity”: { “kind”: “CAPVCDCluster”, “spec”: { “vcdKe”: { “isVCDKECluster”: true, –Add or modify the this field to delete the cluster “markForDelete”: true, — Add or modify the this field to force delete the cluster “forceDelete”: false, “autoRepairOnErrors”: true }, “capiYaml”: “ }, . . . . #Other payload from the GET API response . . . “org”: { “name”: “acme”, “id”: “urn:vcloud:org:cd11f6fd-67ba-40e5-853f-c17861120184” } } POST https://{{vcd}}/cloudapi/1.0.0/entityTypes/urn:vcloud:type:vmware:capvcdCluster:1.1.0 Ensure to declare 1.1.0 as a variable. This will ensure easy API client upgrades to future versions of CSE. #For example, capvcdCluster 1.1.0 API payload looks like below { status: { kubernetesVersion: 1.20.8, nodePools: {} } } #In the future, next version of capvcdCluster 1.2.0 may add more properties (“add-ons”) to the payload. # The old API client code must ensure it does not break on seeing newer properties in the future payloads. { status: { kubernetesVersion: 1.20.8, nodePools: {}, add-ons: {} // new property in the future version } } 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 #For example, capvcdCluster 1.1.0 API payload looks like below { status: { kubernetesVersion: 1.20.8, nodePools: {} } } #In the future, next version of capvcdCluster 1.2.0 may add more properties (“add-ons”) to the payload. # The old API client code must ensure it does not break on seeing newer properties in the future payloads. { status: { kubernetesVersion: 1.20.8, nodePools: {}, add-ons: {} // new property in the future version } } To summarize, we looked at CRUD operations for a Tanzu Kubernetes clusters on VMware Cloud Director platform using VMware Cloud Director supported APIs. Please feel free to checkout other resources for Container Service Extension as follows: Originally posted on February 28, 2023 @ 7:40 pm
List Clusters
Info Cluster
Create a new Cluster
Resize a Cluster
Upgrade a Cluster
Control Plane Version
Old Values
New Values
VCDMachineTemplate
VCDMachineTemplate.spec.template.spec.template
Ubuntu 20.04 and Kubernetes v1.20.15+vmware.1
Ubuntu 20.04 and Kubernetes v1.22.9+vmware.1
KubeadmControlPlane
KubeadmControlPlane.spec.version
v1.20.15+vmware.1
v1.22.9+vmware.1
KubeadmControlPlane.spec.kubeadmConfigSpec.dns
imageTag: v1.7.0_vmware.15
v1.8.4_vmware.9
KubeadmControlPlane.spec.kubeadmConfigSpec.etcd
v3.4.13_vmware.23
v3.5.4_vmware.2
KubeadmControlPlane.spec.kubeadmConfigSpec.imageRepository
imageRepository: projects.registry.vmware.com/tkg
imageRepository: projects.registry.vmware.com/tkg
Worker Node Version
VCDMachineTemplate
VCDMachineTemplate.spec.template.spec.template
Ubuntu 20.04 and Kubernetes v1.20.15+vmware.1
Ubuntu 20.04 and Kubernetes v1.22.9+vmware.1
VCDMachineTemplate.spec.template.spec
MachineDeployment
MachineDeployment.spec.version
v1.20.15+vmware.1
v1.22.9+vmware.1
Delete a Cluster
Recommendation for API Usage during automation
Summary