Setting Up the Out-of-Tree VMware vSphere Cloud Provider in RKE2

Wed, 29 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

As Kubernetes moves away from in-tree cloud providers, VMware vSphere now provides an out-of-tree Cloud Provider Interface (CPI) and Cloud Storage Interface (CSI) for integrating vSphere resources with Kubernetes.

The out-of-tree vSphere Cloud Provider enables: ✅ Dynamic Persistent Volume provisioning using vSphere storage.
✅ Automated Load Balancer creation for Kubernetes services.
✅ Better maintainability with independent plugin updates.

This guide walks through the installation and configuration of the vSphere CPI and CSI in RKE2.

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Setting Up the Out-of-Tree VMware vSphere Cloud Provider in RKE2

Introduction