1 Jun 2023
June 1, 2023 meeting of the Kubernetes VMware User Group. Announced that this will be the final meeting of this User Group - and perhaps another group with a broader mission will be formed by end of 2023. Brief coverage of recent updates to vSphere and the CSI storage plugin and Cloud Provider as these relate to hosting Kubernetes on vSphere. Discussion of the general topic of "Platform Engineering".
- 2 participants
- 56 minutes
4 May 2023
May 4, 2023 meeting of the Kubernetes VMware User Group. Covered recent updated to vSphere as it relates to hosting Kubernetes including the CSI storage plugin and the Cloud Provider. Also announced the plan "twilight" this group and perhaps reformulate another user group with a broader on-prem coverage mission.
- 4 participants
- 43 minutes
6 Apr 2023
April 6, 2023 meeting of the Kubernetes VMware User Group. Coverage of recent cloud provider, and CSI storage plugin update releases.
Discuss future of this group.
Discuss possible physical "face-to-face" user meeting in Amsterdam during KubeCon timeframe.
Discuss future of this group.
Discuss possible physical "face-to-face" user meeting in Amsterdam during KubeCon timeframe.
- 2 participants
- 22 minutes
2 Mar 2023
March 2, 2023 meeting of the Kubernetes VMware User Group. Discussed migrating from legacy in tree storage and cloud provider to current out of tree storage provider (CSI). Observation was that resources are out there but not easy to find and a number of these were offered.
- 3 participants
- 46 minutes
1 Dec 2022
December 1, 2022 meeting of the Kubernetes VMware User Group. Addressed recent v.2.7.0 release of the vSphere CSI plugin
1.25 release of the vSphere cloud provider. Antrea Egress - see blog post https://blogs.vmware.com/networkvirtualization/2022/11/antrea-egress-vsphere8-with-tanzu.html/
1.25 release of the vSphere cloud provider. Antrea Egress - see blog post https://blogs.vmware.com/networkvirtualization/2022/11/antrea-egress-vsphere8-with-tanzu.html/
- 2 participants
- 24 minutes
6 Oct 2022
October 6, 2022 meeting of the Kubernetes VMware User Group.Agenda: recap recent updates to vSphere CSI storage driver;
recap recent updates to vSphere Kubernetes Cloud Provider;
vSphere 8 announcement at the VMware Explore conference; Finding and removing stale CNS volumes in vSphere see: https://vrabbi.cloud/post/finding-and-removing-stale-cns-volumes-in-vsphere/
recap recent updates to vSphere Kubernetes Cloud Provider;
vSphere 8 announcement at the VMware Explore conference; Finding and removing stale CNS volumes in vSphere see: https://vrabbi.cloud/post/finding-and-removing-stale-cns-volumes-in-vsphere/
- 3 participants
- 52 minutes
4 Aug 2022
August 4, 2022 meeting of the Kubernetes VMware User Group, with a presentation running a Kubernetes homelab on VMware infrastructure, followed by a demo by Amar Gandhi, and a group discussion.
- 4 participants
- 57 minutes
2 Jun 2022
June 2, 2022 meeting of the Kubernetes VMware User Group with general discussion of monitoring of failure domain related activity and use of event driven automation based on techniques presented at the recent KubeCon Europe session
- 3 participants
- 57 minutes
1 Jun 2022
Don’t miss out! Join us at our upcoming hybrid event: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022 from October 24-28 in Detroit (and online!). Learn more at https://kubecon.io. The conference features presentations from developers and end users of Kubernetes, Prometheus, Envoy, and all of the other CNCF-hosted projects.
Optimize Kubernetes on vSphere with Event-Driven Automation - Steven Wong & Michael Gasch, VMware
Kubernetes abstracts out differences across hosting infrastructure, but there are cases when integrated monitoring across the layers of storage, compute, etc, are essential. When faults or reconfiguration happen, manual monitoring, diagnosis and remediation can be slow, costly, and error prone. The VMware Event Broker Appliance is an open-source project, usable with Cloud Events and Knative to optimize availability, auditing, compliance, etc. based on vSphere events. We'll cover popular use cases and how to get started. The K8s VMware User Group shares best practices for hosting K8s on VMware infrastructure, and we will close the session with details on how you can participate in the group.
Optimize Kubernetes on vSphere with Event-Driven Automation - Steven Wong & Michael Gasch, VMware
Kubernetes abstracts out differences across hosting infrastructure, but there are cases when integrated monitoring across the layers of storage, compute, etc, are essential. When faults or reconfiguration happen, manual monitoring, diagnosis and remediation can be slow, costly, and error prone. The VMware Event Broker Appliance is an open-source project, usable with Cloud Events and Knative to optimize availability, auditing, compliance, etc. based on vSphere events. We'll cover popular use cases and how to get started. The K8s VMware User Group shares best practices for hosting K8s on VMware infrastructure, and we will close the session with details on how you can participate in the group.
- 2 participants
- 44 minutes
5 May 2022
May 5, 2022 meeting of the Kubernetes VMware User Group with discussion of upcoming events at KubeCon Europe, alternatives to the way user groups operate under the Kubernetes project, and discussion of the VEBA event broker and limitations when this is used with multiple vCenters.
- 2 participants
- 57 minutes
7 Apr 2022
April 7, 2022 meeting of the Kubernetes VMware User group with a discussion of reporting metrics associated with the vSphere CSI storage driver to Prometheus.
- 5 participants
- 54 minutes
3 Mar 2022
March 3, 2022 meeting of the Kubernetes VMware User Group with discussion of recent updates and patches, changes for Kubernetes version 1.23, and a user survey and discussion of what logging solutions people are using.
- 2 participants
- 29 minutes
3 Feb 2022
February 3, 2022 meeting of the Kubernetes VMware User Group with discussion of recent updates and patches, resource limit declaration and admission controllers, monitoring of resource usage.
- 4 participants
- 56 minutes
6 Jan 2022
December 6, 2022 meeting of the Kubernetes VMware User Group. Recent news and updates related to the vSphere platform (log4j, upcoming deprecation of ESXi boot from SD Card and USB, recent updates to Kubernetes Cloud Provider and CSI storage driver). Followed by free form discussion
- 4 participants
- 60 minutes
2 Dec 2021
December 2, 2021 meeting of the Kubernetes VMware User Group. Free form discussion around app and service availability when mapping Kubernetes availability features and issues to vSphere.
- 5 participants
- 1:05 hours
4 Nov 2021
November 4, 2021 meeting of the Kubernetes VMware User Group. Recap of announcements and highlights from recent VMworld and KubeCon North America conferences
- 5 participants
- 53 minutes
29 Oct 2021
Don’t miss out! Join us at our next event: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022 in Valencia, Spain from May 17-20. Learn more at https://kubecon.io The conference features presentations from developers and end users of Kubernetes, Prometheus, Envoy, and all of the other CNCF-hosted projects.
Kubernetes VMware User Group: Using GPUs with K8s on vSphere - Steven Wong & Myles Gray, VMware
An increasing number of applications and services can benefit from GPUs, yet costs and other constraints often prohibit installation in all compute hosts. “Landlocked” GPUs resources often lead to underutilized cycles and wasted spending. This session will describe how a pool of available GPU resources within a vSphere cluster can be shared across a broader number of Kubernetes cluster nodes to accelerate workloads like AI, deep learning and inference. This can provide full or partial GPU compute capacity at scale to Kubernetes workloads, even when these are running in pods on hosts without an installed GPU. The session will show an example based on running a TensorFlow workloads on Knative. The K8s VMware User Group shares best practices for hosting K8s on VMware infrastructure, and we will close the session with details on how you can participate in the group.
Kubernetes VMware User Group: Using GPUs with K8s on vSphere - Steven Wong & Myles Gray, VMware
An increasing number of applications and services can benefit from GPUs, yet costs and other constraints often prohibit installation in all compute hosts. “Landlocked” GPUs resources often lead to underutilized cycles and wasted spending. This session will describe how a pool of available GPU resources within a vSphere cluster can be shared across a broader number of Kubernetes cluster nodes to accelerate workloads like AI, deep learning and inference. This can provide full or partial GPU compute capacity at scale to Kubernetes workloads, even when these are running in pods on hosts without an installed GPU. The session will show an example based on running a TensorFlow workloads on Knative. The K8s VMware User Group shares best practices for hosting K8s on VMware infrastructure, and we will close the session with details on how you can participate in the group.
- 5 participants
- 39 minutes
2 Sep 2021
September 2, 2021 meeting of the Kubernetes VMware User Group. Comments of VMware desktop hypervisors including ARM support from Michael Roy. Open user discussion of issues and best practices for running stateful applications.
- 6 participants
- 58 minutes
5 Aug 2021
August 5, 2021 meeting of the Kubernetes VMware User Group. Dan Finneran presented an introduction and deep dive on running kube-vip as a load balancer for Kubernetes to achieve high availability, oriented to on premise Kubernetes deployments on vSphere, but also applicable to generalized on prem deployments, including home labs. Tradeoffs of BGP vs ARP were discussed. The presentation was followed by Q&A.
- 4 participants
- 59 minutes
1 Jul 2021
July 1 2021 meeting of the Kubernetes VMware User group. This meeting was a discussion of load balancer options when running Kubernetes on VMware infrastructure.
- 4 participants
- 51 minutes
3 Jun 2021
June 3, 2021 meeting of the Kubernetes VMware User Group. This meeting with an introduction to ClusterAPI provider for vSphere which is an open source tool that can be used for deployments of Kubernetes on vSphere. Following this there was coverage of new developments related to ClusterAPI with Yassine Tijani, a key contributor on the project - and Q&A and discussion with Kubernetes users.
- 6 participants
- 58 minutes
14 May 2021
Don’t miss out! Join us at our upcoming event: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021 in Los Angeles, CA from October 12-15. Learn more at https://kubecon.io The conference features presentations from developers and end users of Kubernetes, Prometheus, Envoy, and all of the other CNCF-hosted projects.
Kubernetes VMware UG: What’s New for K8s Users on VMware Infrastructure - Steven Wong & Myles Gray, VMware
The K8s VMware User Group exists to serve users, and authors of tooling and support applications for running K8s on vSphere and desktop hypervisors. Agenda: -Users who initially deployed K8s using the legacy in-tree cloud provider and storage plugins have already received a deprecation warning and will be facing a migration in the 1.22-1.24 release timeframe - we'll cover what this means for those affected. -Recent and upcoming features and changes. -Top 3 under-recognized do’s and don’t’s for K8s on vSphere. -How to get involved in the User Group, to meet other users, and share advice and experiences.
Kubernetes VMware UG: What’s New for K8s Users on VMware Infrastructure - Steven Wong & Myles Gray, VMware
The K8s VMware User Group exists to serve users, and authors of tooling and support applications for running K8s on vSphere and desktop hypervisors. Agenda: -Users who initially deployed K8s using the legacy in-tree cloud provider and storage plugins have already received a deprecation warning and will be facing a migration in the 1.22-1.24 release timeframe - we'll cover what this means for those affected. -Recent and upcoming features and changes. -Top 3 under-recognized do’s and don’t’s for K8s on vSphere. -How to get involved in the User Group, to meet other users, and share advice and experiences.
- 1 participant
- 16 minutes
6 May 2021
May 6 2021 meeting of the Kubernetes VMware User Group. Presentation on the VMware Event Broker Appliance (VEBA) by Michael Gasch and William Lam follwed by a demo by Scott Rosenberg.
VEBA can be deployed on Kubernetes using a Helm chart or as a VM appliance. use cases include: notification, to slack, text message, etc; automation - example apply a tag as something is deployed, can be event driven by Knative; integration - use public cloud services of your choice triggered by vSphere events/data; remediation - example react to a host down event; audit - example pick out events like a failed logon
VEBA can be deployed on Kubernetes using a Helm chart or as a VM appliance. use cases include: notification, to slack, text message, etc; automation - example apply a tag as something is deployed, can be event driven by Knative; integration - use public cloud services of your choice triggered by vSphere events/data; remediation - example react to a host down event; audit - example pick out events like a failed logon
- 5 participants
- 1:02 hours
1 Apr 2021
April 1, 2021 meeting of the Kubernetes VMware User Group - which hosted a "bring us your problems workshop". Covered XFS support for vSphere CSI driver; Online volume expansion; Storage vMotion support; Potential to use vSphere events to keep zone tags auto-updated and current; and more.
- 8 participants
- 1:01 hours
4 Mar 2021
March 4, 2021 meeting of the Kubernetes VMware User Group. Discussion of CSI, snapshots and other topics related to storage, disaster recovery, stateful app management in the context of running Kubernetes on a vSphere platform.
- 5 participants
- 1:01 hours
4 Feb 2021
February 4 meeting of the Kubernetes VMware User Group Meeting which discussed running clustered stateful apps and services on Kubernetes hosted on vSphere, addressing interaction with backing storage. There was also discussion of the challenges of supporting services along with additional layers of abstarction related to Kubernetes and hypervisor layers.
- 6 participants
- 60 minutes
7 Jan 2021
January 7, 2021 meeting of the Kubernetes VMware User Group. This meeting hosted a presentation on utilizing GPU resources from Kubernetes hosted applications and services when Kubernetes is hosted on vSphere hosts with GPU hardware available on some or all of the hypervisor nodes.
- 4 participants
- 45 minutes
4 Dec 2020
Don’t miss out! Join us at our upcoming event: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2021 Virtual from May 4–7, 2021. Learn more at https://kubecon.io. The conference features presentations from developers and end users of Kubernetes, Prometheus, Envoy, and all of the other CNCF-hosted projects.
Kubernetes VMware User Group Intro: Best Practices for Running on VMware - Steven Wong & Myles Gray, VMware
This will be a presentation by organizers and members of the Kubernetes VMware User Group. This group addresses running all forms of Kubernetes on VMware infrastructure. The group exists to serve users, along with those who develop, test and support running K8s on vSphere and desktop hypervisors. This group is also here to support those building/using cluster installation tooling for VMware hypervisors. Agenda: - Overview of vSphere cloud provider and related storage plugins – with coverage of recent features/changes. - Recommended path for migration from the deprecated in-tree storage plugin to CSI. - New features for running Kubernetes on "desktop" hypervisors. - How to get involved in the User Group to meet other users to share advice and experiences.
https://sched.co/ekHS
Kubernetes VMware User Group Intro: Best Practices for Running on VMware - Steven Wong & Myles Gray, VMware
This will be a presentation by organizers and members of the Kubernetes VMware User Group. This group addresses running all forms of Kubernetes on VMware infrastructure. The group exists to serve users, along with those who develop, test and support running K8s on vSphere and desktop hypervisors. This group is also here to support those building/using cluster installation tooling for VMware hypervisors. Agenda: - Overview of vSphere cloud provider and related storage plugins – with coverage of recent features/changes. - Recommended path for migration from the deprecated in-tree storage plugin to CSI. - New features for running Kubernetes on "desktop" hypervisors. - How to get involved in the User Group to meet other users to share advice and experiences.
https://sched.co/ekHS
- 2 participants
- 33 minutes
3 Dec 2020
December 3, 2020 meeting of the Kubernetes VMware User Group. An introduction to load balancers for on prem Kubernetes followed by discussion. An introduction to some work underway related to allowing Kubernetes apps on vSphere utilize GPU resources which will be continued in the next meeting.
- 4 participants
- 1:08 hours
5 Nov 2020
November 5 meeting of the Kubernetes VMware User Group. vSphere 7.0 Update 1 release - what’s new - speaker Gopala Suryanarayana
- 7 participants
- 1:04 hours
1 Oct 2020
October 1, 2020 meeting of the Kubernetes VMware user Group - presentation on stateful application backup and disaster recovery for Kubernetes clusters running on the vSphere platform.
- 4 participants
- 59 minutes
11 Sep 2020
Don’t miss out! Join us at our upcoming events: EnvoyCon Virtual on October 15 and KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2020 Virtual from November 17-20. Learn more at https://kubecon.io The conferences feature presentations from developers and end users of Kubernetes, Prometheus, Envoy, and all of the other CNCF-hosted projects.
Intro: K8s VMware User Group: Out-of-tree Cloud Provider and CSI Storage Migration - Steven Wong & Myles Gray, VMware
This is a presentation by the recently formed Kubernetes VMware User Group. This group addresses running all forms of Kubernetes on VMware infrastructure. Kubernetes is in the process of deprecating the cloud provider and storage plugins that have historically been built into the source tree and directly packaged with many distributions. The new out-of-tree cloud provider and CSI storage plugin are now recommended for production use. The legacy plugins are no longer getting feature upgrades. However, when running on older hypervisor or Kubernetes releases, choices may be constrained. This session will cover the in vs out-of-tree feature and compatibility matrix, offer guidance on migration to out-of-tree - and cover documentation and support resources.
https://sched.co/cpA7
Intro: K8s VMware User Group: Out-of-tree Cloud Provider and CSI Storage Migration - Steven Wong & Myles Gray, VMware
This is a presentation by the recently formed Kubernetes VMware User Group. This group addresses running all forms of Kubernetes on VMware infrastructure. Kubernetes is in the process of deprecating the cloud provider and storage plugins that have historically been built into the source tree and directly packaged with many distributions. The new out-of-tree cloud provider and CSI storage plugin are now recommended for production use. The legacy plugins are no longer getting feature upgrades. However, when running on older hypervisor or Kubernetes releases, choices may be constrained. This session will cover the in vs out-of-tree feature and compatibility matrix, offer guidance on migration to out-of-tree - and cover documentation and support resources.
https://sched.co/cpA7
- 3 participants
- 37 minutes
4 Sep 2020
Don’t miss out! Join us at our upcoming events: EnvoyCon Virtual on October 15 and KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2020 Virtual from November 17-20. Learn more at https://kubecon.io. The conferences feature presentations from developers and end users of Kubernetes, Prometheus, Envoy, and all of the other CNCF-hosted projects.
Kubernetes VMware User Group Intro: Best Practices for Running on VMware - Steven Wong & Myles Gray, VMware
This will be an inaugural presentation by organizers and members of the recently formed Kubernetes VMware User Group. This group addresses running all forms of Kubernetes on VMware infrastructure. Come to this session if you want to meet other users, along with those who develop, test and support running K8s on vSphere and desktop hypervisors. This group is also here to support those building/using cluster installation tooling for VMware hypervisors. Agenda: - Intro to the vSphere cloud provider and related storage plugins - Recent features/changes: What are they? How to use them? - Running Kubernetes on "desktop" hypervisors - How to get involved in the User Group
https://sched.co/ZewL
Kubernetes VMware User Group Intro: Best Practices for Running on VMware - Steven Wong & Myles Gray, VMware
This will be an inaugural presentation by organizers and members of the recently formed Kubernetes VMware User Group. This group addresses running all forms of Kubernetes on VMware infrastructure. Come to this session if you want to meet other users, along with those who develop, test and support running K8s on vSphere and desktop hypervisors. This group is also here to support those building/using cluster installation tooling for VMware hypervisors. Agenda: - Intro to the vSphere cloud provider and related storage plugins - Recent features/changes: What are they? How to use them? - Running Kubernetes on "desktop" hypervisors - How to get involved in the User Group
https://sched.co/ZewL
- 2 participants
- 34 minutes
3 Sep 2020
September 3 2020 meeting of the Kubernetes VMware User group - including coverage of the Helm chart for deploying the vSphere CSI storage plugin and Troubleshooting a deployment of Kubernetes on vSphere
- 6 participants
- 52 minutes
6 Aug 2020
August 6 2020 meeting of the Kubernetes VMware User Group - covered new features + bug fixed in the recent update release to the vSphere Cloud Provider and kube-vip, a relatively new open source load balancer that may be useful for on premises Kubernetes deployments
- 4 participants
- 43 minutes
2 Jul 2020
July 2 2020 meeting of the Kubernetes VMware user group covered upcoming features in the CSI storage plugin and Windows container support when running Kubernetes on the vSphere platform
- 5 participants
- 53 minutes
4 Jun 2020
June 6 2020 meeting of the Kubernetes VMware User Group covered compatibility matrix of vSphere cloud provider and storage plugins related to specific versions of Kubernetes and vSphere
- 4 participants
- 27 minutes
7 May 2020
Meeting of the Kubernetes VMware User Group May 7 2020 - agenda focused on load balancer options when running all forms of Kubernetes on premises on VMware infrastructure
- 7 participants
- 59 minutes
2 Apr 2020
April 2, 2020 meeting of the Kubernetes VMware User Group. This meeting covered using service mesh with Kubernetes running on VMware infrastructure. Also unfinished discussion of load balancing and other mesh related topics that will be carried to a future meeting.
- 4 participants
- 54 minutes
5 Mar 2020
March 5, 2020 meeting of the Kubernetes VMware User Group. This meeting covered using Cluster API for Kubernetes deployments on vSphere, with a demo. Also covered revised plans for user group activities at KubeCon Europe (delayed).
- 13 participants
- 54 minutes
6 Feb 2020
February 6, 2020 meeting of the Kubernetes VMware User Group. This meeting covered storage for persistent volumes, Pod scheduling interaction with vSphere VMs, and running Kubernetes on VMware desktop hypervisors.
- 14 participants
- 60 minutes