step-by-step.md

Step by Step Setup

The following labs guide you through the steps to create the three clusters considered the baseline setup.

Note: The labs depending on a master params.yaml file that is used for environment specific configuration data. A sample REDACTED-params.yaml file is included at the root of this repo, named REDACTED-params.yaml. It is recommended you copy this file and rename it to params.yaml and place it in the local-config/ directory, and then start making your adjustments. local-config/ is included in the .gitignore so your version won't be included in an any future commits you have to the repo.

Setup Environment Variable for params.yaml

Set the PARAMS_YAML environment variable to the path of your params.yaml file. If you followed the recommendation, the value would be local-config/params.yaml, however you may choose otherwise. This may be the case if you are using multiple params.yaml files in the case of AWS and vSphere deployments.

# Update the the path from the default if you have a different params.yaml file name or location.
export PARAMS_YAML=local-config/params.yaml

Management Cluster

1. Install Management Cluster

2. Attach Management Cluster to TMC

3. Configure DNS and Prep Certificate Signing

4. Configure Okta

5. Retrieve TKG Extensions

6. Install Contour Ingress Controller

7. Install Dex

8. Install Tanzu Observability

Setup Shared Services Cluster

1. Create new Shared Services Cluster

2. Attach Shared Services Cluster to TMC

3. Set policy on Shared Services Cluster and Namespace

4. Install Contour Ingress Controller

5. Install Gangway

6. Install ElasticSearch and Kibana

7. Install FluentBit

8. Install Tanzu Observability

9. Enable Data Protection and Setup Nightly Backup

10. Install Harbor

Finalize Management Cluster

1. Install FluentBit

2. Enable Data Protection and Setup Nightly Backup

Setup Workload Cluster

1. Create new Workload Cluster

At this point you have the basis for the lab exercises!