QuickStart: Container Cloud on VMware vSphere

Using this QuickStart tutorial, you can deploy a Mirantis Container Cloud VMware vSphere-based management cluster containing 3 control plane nodes. This cluster will run the public API and the web UI. Using the Container Cloud web UI, you can deploy managed clusters that run Mirantis Kubernetes Engine.

The following diagram illustrates the deployment overview of a Container Cloud vSphere-based 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.

• Before you begin
• Prepare the bootstrap node
• Download the bootstrap script
• Obtain the Mirantis license
• Prepare the deployment user setup and permissions
• Configure the cluster and vSphere credentials
• Prepare the virtual machine template
• Finalize the bootstrap
• What’s next