Deckhouse Stronghold on VMware vSphere

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Installation information

Installation of Deckhouse Stronghold on VMware vSphere is only possible in the Enterprise Edition. See information about commercial editions.

The minimal preset will be used during the installation:

  • The cluster consists of one master node and one worker node.
  • Kubernetes Control Plane and Deckhouse controller run on the master node.
  • Deckhouse Platform deploys non-system components (Ingress Controller, Prometheus, cert-manager, etc.) on the worker node.
  • Your applications should run on the worker node.

Used layout...

Layout is the way how resources are located and communicate in the cloud. There are several pre-defined layouts, which you can learn more about in the documentation.

The Standard layout will be used during the installation.

Currently this is the only placement strategy for vSphere.

In this layout, virtual machines are in a single network with a DHCP server and Internet access.

The presentation contains an overview of the actions required to install Deckhouse Platform.

Installation requirements

  1. Personal computer. The computer from which the installation will be performed. It is only needed to run the Deckhouse Platform installer and will not be part of the cluster.

    Requirements...

    • OS: Windows 10+, macOS 10.15+, Linux (for example, Ubuntu 18.04+, Fedora 35+)

    • installed docker to run the installer (here are the instructions for Ubuntu, macOS, Windows)

    • HTTPS access to the registry.deckhouse.io container image registry
    • access to the API of the cloud provider, an account with rights to create resources, and a configured govc utility

  2. Cloud Provider Resources.

    Minimum recommended resources...

    • 8 CPU cores
    • 16 GB of RAM
    • 100 GB of disk space
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