2.3 KiB
title, description, cascade, menu
| title | description | cascade | menu | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Supported cluster types | See the supported cluster types for the Pinniped Concierge. |
|
|
| Cluster Type | Concierge Works? |
|---|---|
| VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) clusters | Yes |
| Kind clusters | Yes |
| Kubeadm-based clusters | Yes |
| Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) | Yes |
| Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) | Yes |
| Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) | Yes |
Background
The Pinniped Concierge has two strategies available to support clusters, under the following conditions:
-
Token Credential Request API: Can be run on any Kubernetes cluster where a custom pod can be executed on the same node running
kube-controller-manager. This type of cluster is typically called "self-hosted" because the cluster's control plane is running on nodes that are part of the cluster itself. Most managed Kubernetes services do not support this. -
Impersonation Proxy: Can be run on any Kubernetes cluster. Default configuration requires that a
LoadBalancerservice can be created. Most cloud-hosted Kubernetes environments have this capability. The Impersonation Proxy automatically provisions (whenspec.impersonationProxy.modeis set toauto) aLoadBalancerfor ingress to the impersonation endpoint. Users who wish to use the impersonation proxy without an automatically configuredLoadBalancercan do so with an automatically provisionedClusterIPor with a Service that they provision themselves. These options can be configured in the spec of the [CredentialIssuer](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/pinniped/blob/main/generated/{{< latestcodegenversion >}}/README.adoc#credentialissuer).
If a cluster is capable of supporting both strategies, the Pinniped CLI will use the token credential request API strategy by default.
To choose the strategy to use with the concierge, use the --concierge-mode flag with pinniped get kubeconfig.
Possible values are ImpersonationProxy and TokenCredentialRequestAPI.