Terraform VMware Cloud Director Supplier v3.9.0

Terraform VMware Cloud Director Supplier v3.9.0 is offered now, introducing new options and enhancements.

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Introducing help for Container Service Extension (CSE) v4.0

This new model of the supplier incorporates a number of assets and knowledge sources that can enable customers to make the most of the Runtime Outlined Entity framework:

rde_interface useful resource and knowledge supply, which permits suppliers to handle and fetch Runtime Outlined Entity Interfaces
rde_type useful resource and knowledge supply, which permits suppliers to handle and fetch Runtime Outlined Entity Sorts
rde useful resource and knowledge supply, which permits suppliers and tenants to handle and fetch Runtime Outlined Entities

With the addition of those, Terraform customers will have the ability to set up the Container Service Extension v4.0 in VCD 10.4+ by following a new guide complemented with some examples that may be personalized and utilized, or just used as a place to begin.

The proposed examples construct the required parts for CSE v4.0 to work:

Organizations, VDCs and a fundamental networking setup with ALB, that customers can improve
Runtime Outlined Entity Sorts and their corresponding cases to have the ability to configure the CSE Server and the TKGm clusters
World roles, roles, rights bundles and customers
VM Sizing Insurance policies required by the TKGm clusters
Catalogs and OVAs
Deploys the CSE Server vApp

As soon as put in, tenant customers can provision and handle Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Multi-cloud (TKGm) clusters utilizing the UI as typical.

Extending NSX-T capabilities

With this launch, the options associated to NSX-T continue to grow:

NSX-T Edge Gateway automated IP Allocation administration

Earlier than this characteristic was launched, NSX-T Edge Gateways would must be configured through the use of static IP swimming pools. Since v3.9.0, they will now allocate IPs routinely by specifying a variety of IPs that may be allotted per subnet, or per any subnet. You may learn extra here.

New NSX-T assets and knowledge sources

NSX-T enhancements

New NSX-V options

For these utilizing NSX-V of their VMware Cloud Director home equipment, this new model of the supplier provides help for Distributed Firewall in NSX-V VDCs. This can enable customers to section their VDC entities, comparable to VMs, Edge Gateways, Networks, and so on, based mostly on a number of attributes, by creating layer 3 guidelines.