vsphere.md

vSphere cloud provider

Kubespray can be deployed with vSphere as Cloud provider. This feature supports

• Volumes
• Persistent Volumes
• Storage Classes and provisioning of volumes.
• vSphere Storage Policy Based Management for Containers orchestrated by Kubernetes.

Prerequisites

You need at first to configure your vSphere environment by following the official documentation.

After this step you should have:

• UUID activated for each VM where Kubernetes will be deployed
• A vSphere account with required privileges

If you intend to leverage the zone and region node labeling, create a tag category for both the zone and region in vCenter. The tags can then be applied at the host, cluster, datacenter, or folder level, and the cloud provider will walk the hierarchy to extract and apply the labels to the Kubernetes nodes.

Kubespray configuration

First you must define the cloud provider in inventory/sample/group_vars/all.yml and set it to vsphere.