As companies worldwide increasingly adopt container technologies, they are rapidly modernizing their legacy systems – driven by straightforward benefits that include boosting developer expertise, enhancing IT efficiency, and directly generating business value through enhanced customer experiences.
In September 2023, VMware launched TMC (TM Control Manager), a centralized hub designed to simplify multi-tenant, multi-cluster Kubernetes management for cloud service providers catering to high-security industries such as BFSI, healthcare, and government sectors that require robust data security and sovereignty controls.
With great excitement, we are pleased to officially introduce the. Service providers leverage our centralized plugin to deliver a comprehensive, scalable, and secure Kubernetes-as-a-Platform (K8s) service to tenants across regulated industries, thereby empowering them on their software modernization path.
This VMware Cloud Director plug-in delivers seamless integration with on-premises VMware Tanzu Mission Management, a feature natively embedded within VMware Cloud Director.
Sovereign cloud providers offering multi-tenant Kubernetes infrastructure as a service can now centrally manage and govern containerized workloads on air-gapped deployments of VMware Cloud Director Container Service Extension, effortlessly applying defined IT policies across all clusters using the VMware Tanzu Mission Control extension for seamless management.
This offers our companies’ suppliers a unique opportunity to address the challenging aspects of working with hyperscalers that have previously been difficult to tackle. They will offer a fully managed sovereign-compliant Kubernetes service for clients, allowing skilled users to provision their own K8s resources through self-service portals.
To successfully initiate your VMware Cloud Director extension for Tanzu Mission Management, start by ensuring that you have the necessary prerequisites in place.
To successfully utilize the plugin, one should first ensure they have the following:
- TMC SM v1.1
- VMware Cloud Director 10.4.3., 10.5.1
- VMware Cloud Director Container Service Extension, version 4.2, provides a seamless integration of Kubernetes clusters with VMware vSphere environments.
- The Kubernetes (k8s) Container Clusters UI plugin has been updated to version 4.2, introducing several key features and improvements.
These include the ability to view detailed information about container clusters, such as node counts, CPU usage, and memory consumption; support for customizing cluster names and descriptions; and enhanced error handling and logging capabilities.
- The TKG variations that exist are: 2.1.1?, 2.2, 2.3.1, and 2.4.
Customers can access comprehensive details on setting up TMC Self-Managed and onboarding tenants to TMC Self-Managed via the VCD UI within the CSE 4.2 user interface.
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