Clusters status shows N/A in vCenter

Products

• Tanzu Kubernetes Runtime

Issue/Introduction

Clusters that are deployed with API version v1beta show N/A under cluster status N/A.

apiVersion: cluster.x-k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: Cluster
#define the cluster
metadata:

Environment

vSphere IaaS control plane 8.0

Cause

vSphere IaaS control plane UI cannot determine the lifecycle status of legacy guest cluster type so it shows as N/A.

This also means that the command kubectl get tkc cannot be run and instead the command kubectl get cluster would be required

❯ k get tkc
No resources found in <> namespace.

Resolution

In order to use the full functions of the TanzuKubernetesCluster classes available for Guest clusters you should use API v1alpha3 and below.
This supports the kind TanzuKubernetesCluster which allows the UI to fully show the lifecycle of the guest cluster.

TanzuKubernetesCluster v1alpha3 API