I recommend referring Part 1 of the series to those who missed it before proceeding further. — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — Kubernetes High Availability Design — Rule:2 Plan the Control Plane Cluster & Control Plane Node Placement Based on Availability Concerns & Business Requirements. — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — Why do I need more than One Control Plane Nodes in my Kubernetes Cluster?

“If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself.” ― Albert Einstein Whenever Business Applications Deploy into the Kubernetes Platform, High Availability (HA) is a mandatory requirement. In this blog series, I plan to declutter the High Availability design parameters of the Kubernetes Platform. I prefer a less wordy TLDL format to make it a quick reference. — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —

A while ago, One of the well-known Kubernetes CNI Provider Antrea, Introduced a feature called ‘NodePortLocal’. As per the product document, NodePortLocal (NPL) is a feature that runs as part of the Antrea Agent, through which each port of a Service's backend Pod can be reached from the external network…

While Enterprises are moving more workloads as Containers into the Kubernetes Platform, they need additional features in the Platform that are typically not part of the default Kubernetes Native configuration Patterns. One such common feature requirement is the capability to expose Pod IPs to External Services. In simple, don’t SNAT…

One of the exciting features of the latest release of Project Antrea-v1.2.0 is the Option to Configure Egress IP Pool or Static Egress IP for the Kubernetes Workloads. Egress IP feature gives a great deal of convenience, especially for use cases where the Kubernetes Operators need to configure IP-based Access…

While vSphere with Kubernetes gaining adoption across all sort of business domains, the product team released the latest update to add a couple of features to the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Services (TKGs). The latest update provides the following key features to the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid services. Native Registry Service trust …

With the introduction of vSphere-7 update1 (v7u1), VMware bringing the most simple and straightforward path to enable Kubernetes Services natively on the default enterprise Virtualization Platform. For those organizations wishing to adopt the Tanzu Kubernetes Services without the dependency on NSX-T and VSAN, the new release provides flexibility to configure…