VMware
Palette supports usning VMware as a data center provider. With this, you can deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters on VMware virtual machines. For this to work, Palette uses a Private Cloud Gateway (PCG), which creates a secure connection from the internal network to the internet-accessible Palette instance, ultimately bypassing the need to create firewall rules or other network configurations allowing external connections to the internal network.
Palette supports the ability to manage your VMware workloads on the same Kubernetes infrastructure as your other applications through the Palette Virtual Machine Orchestrator (VMO). VMO provides a unified platform for managing containerized and virtualized applications. This solution allows organizations to onboard, deploy, manage, and scale VMs within the same cluster as their containerized applications. Check out the VMO documentation for more information.
Get Started
To get started with VMware as your target platform for deploying Kubernetes clusters, you need to deploy a PCG in your VMware environment. The PCG acts as a bridge between your VMware environment and Palette, enabling secure communication between the two. Start by reviewing the Deploy a PCG in VMware vSphere guide.
If you are using a self-hosted Palette or VerteX instance, you can skip the PCG deployment and use the System PCG that is already available in the instance. Review the System PCG section of the PCG architecture page for more information.
After you have deployed the PCG, you can proceed to create and manage VMware clusters in Palette. Refer to the Create and Manage VMware Clusters guide for detailed instructions.