Tag: Registry
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VKS Registry and Trusted CA Errors in Container Deployment (VCAP-VKS Exam Series, Part 32)
Objective 5.3 as a runbook: separating x509 trust failures from registry authentication failures on a VKS cluster, the double encoded secret the Supervisor expects, and the version window where the fix applies but never reaches containerd.
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VKS Workload Deployment Models, Ingress Controllers and Registries (VCAP-VKS Exam Series, Part 27)
Objective 4.12 asks you to build workload deployment models across pods, VMs, ingress controllers and private registries on a VKS cluster. Here is the runbook, the Avi VIP arithmetic that decides the answer, and why the official Contour tutorial fails on a current cluster.
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VKS Package Repositories, Registry Secrets and Private Registries (VCAP-VKS Exam Series, Part 23)
Objective 4.8 hinges on knowing which of four separate authentication and trust paths a failed image pull belongs to. This Part installs the standard package repository, places registry secrets where kapp controller can actually read them, and relocates the whole repository into an air-gapped Harbor.
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Harbor Supervisor Service and external-dns Add-on Lifecycle (VCAP-VKS Exam Series, Part 19)
Objective 4.4 is a lifecycle objective, not an install objective. Here is the Harbor Supervisor Service procedure end to end on VCF 9.0, the external-dns package that does not install the same way, and the deactivate then uninstall then delete order that vCenter enforces.
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