Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from 2018

A SIMPLE PIVOTAL CONTAINER SERVICE (PKS) DEPLOYMENT

This post will walk you through a simplified PKS (Pivotal Container Service) deployment in my lab. The reason why I say this is simplified is because all the components will be deployed on a single flat network. PKS has several network dependencies. These include the bosh agents deployed on the Kubernetes (K8s) VMs being able to reach the BOSH Director, as well as the vCenter server. Let’s not get too deep into the components just yet – these will be explained over the course of the post. So rather than trying to set up routing between multiple different networks, I have deployed everything on a single flat network. Again, like some of my previous posts, this is more of a learning exercise than a best practice. What it will show you are the various moving parts that need to be considered when deploying your own PKS. If you are looking for a more complex network deployment, have a read of the excellent series of posts that my good pal William Lam put together. He highlights all the