End to End Workshop

This is a workshop for delivering an end to end experience of VMware Tanzu solutions.

You can currently access a hosted version of the E2E workshop here: https://via.vmware.com/tanzu-e2e-demo

Prerequisites

To install the E2E workshop in your own environment, the following prereqs must be in place in your Kubernetes cluster:

Environment Values File

Follow the docs for Customizing the Environment Values File. Ensure that you have the carvel tools ytt and kapp installed on your local machine.

Contour

Set up Contour, with a wildcard DNS domain, that terminates with a signed cert. LetsEncrypt is a great tool for generating the cert. Follow the docs for Configuring TLS Certificate Delegation

Educates

Install the educates operator, per these instructions: https://docs.edukates.io/en/latest/getting-started/installing-operator.html

Harbor

Follow the docs for Installing Harbor

Concourse

Follow the docs for Installing Concourse

Tanzu Build Service

Install Tanzu Build Service per the Documentation

After the installation add an updated clusterstack to be able to show the TBS update functionality in the demo:

1. Open the TBS Dependencies Tanzu Network page in your browser and select an outdated release from the dropdown, e.g. 100.0.18
2. Download the descriptor-*.yaml and base-order-*yaml
3. Open the descriptor-*.yaml and relocate(pull, retag, push) the build and run image defined for the stack with the name 'base' to your Harbor registry (harbor./build-service/build-service/run, harbor./build-service/build-service/build)
4. Create the cluster stack:

   kp clusterstack create demo-stack --build-image harbor.<your-ingress-domain>/build-service/build-service/build@sha256:<sha256-of-the-relocated-build-container-image> --run-image harbor.<your-ingress-domain>/build-service/build-service/run@sha256:<sha256-of-the-relocated-run-container-image>
   

5. Create the cluster builder:

   kp clusterbuilder create demo-cluster-builder --order <path-to-your-order-file> --stack demo-stack --store default
   

Kubeapps

Follow the docs for Installing Kubeapps

ArgoCD

Follow the docs for Installing Argocd

Gitea

Follow the docs for Installing Gitea

Workshop

Finally, follow the docs for Installing the Workshop

The workshop will take a couple of minutes to start. Run:

kubectl get eduk8s-training

to get the TrainingPortal URL that will be used to access the workshop. The training portal is configured to allow anonymous access. For your own workshop content you should consider removing anonymous access.