gardener/machine-controller-manager

vSphere support in Gardener/MCM

fdhex opened this issue · 8 comments

fdhex commented

As vSphere is currently not one of the supported Cloud Providers, I was wondering if there was already some initial work on the topic or if this is still a greenfield for Gardener? Is there any interest in such a feature?

prashanth26 commented

Currently there has been no work carried out to support vSphere to the best of my knowledge. @hardikdr could probably comment more on this. However, there is an active interest in support for vSphere. Our plan is to support vSphere some where down the line.

However if you/anyone else is interested in contributing for the initial support for vSphere, we are more than happy to help you with guiding you towards the steps to do the same.

Thanks & Regards,
Prashanth

hardikdr commented

Yes, we would be really happy to have vSphere support.

Btw, we have documented simple steps to add support for new cloud provider here: https://github.com/gardener/machine-controller-manager/blob/master/docs/development/new_cp_support.md

vasu1124 commented

cf. https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/sig-vmware, we will likely discuss with the SIG VMware the same subject next week, please join.

vlerenc commented

+1

MartinWeindel commented

The vSphere provider relies on the out-of-tree machine-controller manager which is not yet released.
Besides we are still evaluating if we could already use the new "Simplified API" of NSX-T instead of the old "Advanced API".
So at the moment we have some kind of alpha version of vSphere support but some work is left to stabilise it.

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vpnachev commented

Ok, so once the out-of-tree support MCM is released, this issue can be closed as resolved.

Regarding switch between Simplified and Advanced API of NXS-T, it should not affect the MCM and can be tracked in https://github.com/gardener/gardener-extension-provider-vsphere or https://github.com/gardener/machine-controller-manager-provider-vsphere.