Tanzu Kubernetes Grid management cluster fails to deploy when the tkg/tanzu CLI is invoked from a MacOS system

Products

• Tanzu Kubernetes Grid

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

• A Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) management cluster fails to deploy when the tkg/tanzu CLI is invoked from a MacOS system.
• The MacOS system where the tkg/tanzu CLI is launched is running Docker Desktop version 3.3.1 or earlier.
• You see messages similar to the following in the capv-controller-manager logs in the bootstrap cluster:

E0510 16:16:51.320061 1 controller.go:257] controller-runtime/controller "msg"="Reconciler error" "error"="failed to create vSphere session: Post https://192.168.110.22/sdk: EOF" "controller"="vspherevm" "name"="cluster-name-control-plane-pqrjq" "namespace"="tkg-system"

Environment

VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid 1.x
VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Plus 1.x

Resolution

Upgrade Docker Desktop to version 3.3.3 or higher to resolve this issue.