Supervisor service, previously the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Service, that deploys and looks after VMware-supported upstream Kubernetes clusters inside vSphere Namespaces.
Also called vSphere Kubernetes Service.
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Terms in this definition
- vSphere
VMware's platform for virtualisation, made up of vCenter and ESX hosts, supplying compute for VCF clusters.
Related terms
- Supervisor Services
Operators for Kubernetes, certified by VMware for vSphere, that run on the Supervisor and give DevOps teams IaaS components and partner offerings, such as Velero, MinIO, Harbor or VKS, to use inside their namespaces.
- VM class
Template on a vSphere Supervisor setting reservations, memory and CPU for VKS cluster nodes and VMs. DevOps users can only pick it once it has been added to their vSphere Namespace.
- vSphere Namespace
An area on a Supervisor, with caps on CPU, memory, storage and Kubernetes objects, in which VMs, vSphere Pods, VKS clusters and Supervisor Services run. VCF Automation creates them within a project, drawing on the organisation's region quota.
- vSphere Supervisor
Formerly known as vSphere with Tanzu. It gives vSphere clusters a Kubernetes API, declarative in style, through which VKS clusters, vSphere Pods and VMs are run inside namespaces; it underpins VCF Automation.