https://buildrunrepeat.com/tags/imagebuilder/Recent content in Imagebuilder on Build. Run. Repeat.HugoenWed, 01 Mar 2023 09:00:00 -0400https://buildrunrepeat.com/posts/streamlining-and-customizing-windows-image-builder-in-tkg/Wed, 01 Mar 2023 09:00:00 -0400https://buildrunrepeat.com/posts/streamlining-and-customizing-windows-image-builder-in-tkg/<p>Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) is one of the few platforms providing out-of-the-box support and streamlined deployment of Windows Kubernetes clusters. VMware is actively investing in this area and constantly improving the support and capabilities around Windows on Kubernetes.</p> <p>Unlike Linux-based clusters, for which VMware provides pre-packaged base OS images (typically based on Ubuntu and Photon OS), VMware cannot offer Windows pre-packaged images, primarily due to licensing restrictions, I suppose. Therefore, building your own Windows base OS image is one of the prerequisites for deploying a TKG Windows workload cluster. Fortunately, VMware leverages the <a href="https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/image-builder">upstream Image Builder project</a> - a fantastic collection of cross-provider Kubernetes virtual machine image-building utilities intended to simplify and streamline the creation of base OS images for Kubernetes.</p>