Deploying Windows Clusters on vSphere Kubernetes Service with VKS Image Builder

Tue, 27 Jan 2026 16:35:23 +0000

There have been numerous how-to guides over the past few years on building and deploying Windows clusters on the different Kubernetes distributions supported by VMware. This post aims to solidify the understanding of the current most up to date process of doing this on vSphere Kubernetes Service which is the definitive Kubernetes service for VMware. At the time of writing the latest vSphere Kubernetes Release(VKR) is v1.34.1---vmware.1-vkr.4 so that is what this will be based on.

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Deploying Windows Clusters on vSphere Kubernetes Service with VKS Image Builder