Aria Operations and Tanzu Mission Control

I'm using Aria Operations for my vSphere infrastructure and Tanzu Mission Control (TMC) for my Kubernetes infrastructure, but I'd like to see Kubernetes objects in Operations, how to do that? There is an Operations Management Pack for TMC, which is included in the Management Pack for Kubernetes, let's have a look.

The latest Management Pack for Kubernetes is 2.2 and can be found here. Once downloaded and installed go to Administration - Integrations - Accounts - ADD.

You'll now notice options for Kubernetes, Tanzu Mission Control, and Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated, all of which came with the Management Pack for Kubernetes. Let's configure an Adapter Instance for TMC.

A few things to note here:

• The information bubble on TMC URL is wrong, that has moved to the tmc.tanzu.broadcom.com domain. The proper format for this field is now: https://{org}.tmc.tanzu.broadcom.com

  
  

• This must also be changed in the Adapter Instance code, follow this KB.

  
  

• Once done go to you VMware Cloud Services console and generate a token

  

  

  

  

  
  
  

• Once you've generated your token, create a Credential for the Adapter Instance.

  

• There are three Advanced Settings: one to check if cAdvisor is installed, another to auto-delete Kubernetes Credentials when Kubernetes Clusters are deleted, and finally one for the maximum number of Kubernetes Accounts/Clusters that are created by the TMC Adapter Instance. Keep in mind that if a Kubernetes Adapter Instance is deleted, it can't be re-created until it's Credential has also been removed.

Once done, validate the connection, and you're off and running. In our next blog, we will show you the TMC Adapter Instance auto-discovers Kubernetes Clusters being managed by TMC and creates Adapter Instances (and credentials) for each.