saintdle / vra-deploy-gke-clusters

Using vRA Code Stream to deploy a GKE clusters, attach to Tanzu Mission Control and Onboard to Tanzu Service Mesh

High Level Steps

• Create a Code Stream Pipeline
  • Create an Google GKE Cluster
  • Create GKE cluster as endpoint in both vRA Code Stream and Cloud Assembly
  • Register GKE cluster in Tanzu Mission Control
  • Onboard the cluster to Tanzu Service Mesh

Pre-Requisites

• vRA Cloud access
  • The pipeline can be changed easily for use with vRA on-premises
• Google Cloud account that can provision GKE clusters
  • The Kubernetes Engine API needs to be enabled
  • Basic knowledge of deploying GKE
    • This is a good beginners guide if you need
      • You will need to create a Service Account that the gcloud CLI tool can use for authentication
  • A Docker host to be used by vRA Code Stream
    • Ability to run the container image: gcr.io/google.com/cloudsdktool/google-cloud-cli
  • Tanzu Mission Control account that can register new clusters
  • VMware Cloud Console Tokens for vRA Cloud, Tanzu Mission Control and Tanzu Service Mesh API access
  • The configuration files for the pipeline can be found in this GitHub repository

Getting Started

vRealize Automation - Deploying a GKE Cluster with Code Stream, add to Tanzu Mission Control & Tanzu Service Mesh