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Regardless of approach or environment, many developers will likely follow similar steps in this part of the application modernization process. Tanzu did not complicate workload deployment or create daunting obstacles.
After adding Tanzu to the vSphere environment on Dell EMC PowerEdge R740xd servers, we provided our developer access to the environment. Our developer installed kubectl, docker, and Tanzu Kubernetes Grid CLI on an Ubuntu 18.04.5 VM. Then, they connected to the supervisor control plane cluster address and downloaded the “vSphere for kubectl” plugin. They prepared the VM with the necessary files and connected to Tanzu K8s. Using YAML files, they deployed a cloud-native WordPress workload to the environment. See the science behind the report for a walk-through of the developer’s steps.
Figure 3: A screenshot of a successful WordPress installation after deploying Tanzu to the VMware vSphere environment.
Source: Principled Technologies.