Chainguard Container for cloud-provider-vsphere

Minimal image of the Kubernetes cloud provider interface for vSphere

Chainguard Containers are regularly-updated, secure-by-default container images.

Download this Container Image

For those with access, this container image is available on cgr.dev:

docker pull cgr.dev/ORGANIZATION/cloud-provider-vsphere:latest

Be sure to replace the ORGANIZATION placeholder with the name used for your organization's private repository within the Chainguard Registry.

Compatiblity Notes

Chainguard's cloud-provider-vsphere image is compatible with the upstream vSphere Cloud Provider Interface. This image contains only the minimum set of dependencies needed to run the vSphere infrastructure provider components.

Follow the Broadcom/VMware deployment documentation for installing the vSphere cloud provider interface.

Prerequisites

• Supported vCenter Server and ESXi environment.
• Supported Kubernetes version for the driver release you choose.
• vCenter user account with the required privileges as defined in the upstream docs.
• Network/DNS reachability from all cluster nodes to vCenter.
• helm

Usage

Deploy the vSphere Cloud Provider Interface via Helm

If your vSphere environment contains only a single vCenter Server where the default vsphere.conf is acceptable, a basic helm chart deployment should be sufficient for your needs. If your vSphere environment contains multiple vCenter Servers or the default parameters contained within the vsphere.conf must be changed, follow the upstream's Advanced Configuration Helm deployment guide.

1. Add the cloud-provider-vsphere Helm chart repo and update Helm client

helm repo add vsphere-cpi https://kubernetes.github.io/cloud-provider-vsphere
helm repo update

2. Create your values.yaml file

cat <<EOF > /tmp/values.yaml
daemonset:
  image:
    repository: cgr.dev/ORGANIZATION/cloud-provider-vsphere:latest
    tag: latest
EOF

3. Install cloud-provider-sphere

helm install vsphere-cpi -f /tmp/values.yaml vsphere-cpi/vsphere-cpi

Documentation and Resources

• Upstream cloud-provider-vsphere repository
• K8S Docs - vSphere Cloud Provider
• K8S Docs - Deploying vSphere CPI w/ Helm
• K8S Docs - Deploying K8S cluster on vSphere
• Broadcom/VMware Docs - vSphere
• Braodcom/VMware Docs - Install vSphere Cloud Provider Interface

What are Chainguard Containers?

Chainguard's free tier of Starter container images are built with Wolfi, our minimal Linux undistro.

All other Chainguard Containers are built with Chainguard OS, Chainguard's minimal Linux operating system designed to produce container images that meet the requirements of a more secure software supply chain.

The main features of Chainguard Containers include:

• Minimal design, without unnecessary software bloat
• Daily builds to ensure container images are up-to-date with available security patches
• High quality build-time SBOMs attesting to the provenance of all artifacts within the image
• Verifiable signatures provided by Sigstore
• Reproducible builds with Cosign and apko (read more about reproducibility)

For cases where you need container images with shells and package managers to build or debug, most Chainguard Containers come paired with a development, or -dev, variant.

In all other cases, including Chainguard Containers tagged as :latest or with a specific version number, the container images include only an open-source application and its runtime dependencies. These minimal container images typically do not contain a shell or package manager.

Although the -dev container image variants have similar security features as their more minimal versions, they include additional software that is typically not necessary in production environments. We recommend using multi-stage builds to copy artifacts from the -dev variant into a more minimal production image.

Need additional packages?

To improve security, Chainguard Containers include only essential dependencies. Need more packages? Chainguard customers can use Custom Assembly to add packages, either through the Console, chainctl, or API.

To use Custom Assembly in the Chainguard Console: navigate to the image you'd like to customize in your Organization's list of images, and click on the Customize image button at the top of the page.

Learn More

Refer to our Chainguard Containers documentation on Chainguard Academy. Chainguard also offers VMs and Libraries — contact us for access.

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