vSphere 8: VMService Bring Your Own Image - Part 2

March 14, 2023 Michael West

vSphere 8: VMService Bring Your Own Image - Part 2
DevOps automation is critical to the implementation of modern applications.  The Kubernetes ecosystem is rapidly becoming the baseline infrastructure supporting this automation.  vSphere 8 exposes a Kubernetes API that can not only be consumed directly but enables the TKG and VMService.   In Part 1 of this blog series we the capability to automate the lifecycle of VM instances using VMware curated base images and cloud-init for instance configuration.   Developers require more choice and in vSphere 8, VMware has extended the VMService to enable the consumption of custom images in your VM deployments.  This blog will show you how to Bring Your Own Image (BYOI) and enable instance configuration through a native cloud-init datasource.  For those of you that wish to jump

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