nsx-cli.sh

In this article, we will configure the various command-line tools that will be used to interact with the PKS Platform which will then be consumed by either the Operators (managing the PKS infrastructure) and/or the the Developers (consumers of the Kubernetes Clusters).

Below is a quick summary, description and the consumers of the CLIs that we will be installing:

CLI	Description	Consumer
pks	Used to create/delete and manage K8S Clusters	Operator
kubectl	Used to interact with K8S Cluster and deploy applications including scaling up/down	Developer
uaac	Used to manage user accounts and authorization for the PKS platform	Operator
bosh	Used to manage PKS deployments and provides information about the VMs using its Cloud Provider Interface (CPI) which is vSphere in this case	Operator
om	Used to Used to manager and interact with Ops Manager	Operator
nsx-cli.sh	Used to clean NSX-T objects after a K8S have been deleted (will be Automated by PKS in future release)	Operator

Both PKS and Kubectl CLIs are supported on either Windows, MacOS and Linux, you can refer to Part 1 for a link to the binary downloads. The remainder of the tools are primarily used by Operators and to make them accessible for multiple users, you can deploy a centralized management VM. In my lab, I am referring to this VM as the "PKS Client" which is where we will be installing all the CLIs. You can use a variety of supported Operating Systems, but I found Ubuntu to work the best, especially for some of the package dependencies. I did try to use our own PhotonOS, but I was having some trouble figuring out the required packages. If I figure it out, then I will update the article as that may be preferred over Ubuntu if you have never worked with it before.

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