Deploy a VMware vSphere-based management cluster

This section describes how to bootstrap a VMware vSphere-based Mirantis Container Cloud management cluster.

Note

You can deploy vSphere-based clusters on CentOS. Support of this operating system is available as Technology Preview. Use it for testing and evaluation purposes only.

Deployment of a Container Cloud cluster that is based on different operating systems, such as RHEL and CentOS or CentOS and Ubuntu, is not supported.

• Workflow overview
• Deployment resources requirements
• Prerequisites
• Prepare the VMware deployment user setup and permissions
• Bootstrap a management cluster
• Prepare the virtual machine template
  • Prepare the VM template using the Container Cloud script
  • Prepare the VM template manually
• Configure squid-proxy
• RHEL 8 mirrors configuration