Tkg

Overview # I have had a question come up a few times with customers and coworkers about how to reduce duplication when creating clusters with Tanzu Mission Control(TMC). The question or issue that is usually brought up is that the platform engineering team wants to be able to create clusters quickly and many of the settings between cluster creation are the exact same, thus having a lot of duplication between clusters. When looking at the TMC UI there’s not a way to set custom defaults today to be able to remove the need to fill in every field each time you create a cluster. However, using the UI is probably not the approach a platform team wants to take to scale anyway. It’s much more efficient to codify the clusters and automate the creation. In this post, we will walk through creating cluster templates and using the Tanzu CLI to create clusters with minimal inputs. We will focus on TKG Clusters mostly, but I will also provide some commands that work with AKS and EKS clusters are well.