One of the commonly reported issues in TKGI is cluster creation fail with error 1 of 7 pre-start scripts failed. Failed Jobs: pks-nsx-t-prepare-master-vm. In this blog post, we will see more about the issue. Symptoms: Bosh tasks fails with the below error Task 305253 | 02:58:24 | Updating instance master: master/6415b432-ccc2-4faa-89c8-911914cb9d44 (0) (canary) (00:02:16) L... Continue Reading →
Create a custom VM_TYPE template in PKS/TKGI
We have seen couple of requests from our customer about how to create a custom vm type in PKS as the cluster has plenty of resources and wants to create a VM with high CPU, disk, and RAM resources. Though the steps are available in the product knowledge base, some times it gets confusing. In this... Continue Reading →
Accessing Bosh Director using API
In our last blog post, we saw how to create a read-only client in bosh director which can be used by monitoring or reporting system. In this blog post, we will try to use that user and run some API calls to pull some data from the bosh director. In my lab environment, I have... Continue Reading →
How to add a Read-Only user in Bosh
Recently, a customer came up with a request on how they can create a user with less privileges in bosh environment to run any curl queries as in here. In this blog post, we will see how to add a read-only BOSH user who has read access to the director but does not have admin... Continue Reading →
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