Public IPs and PKS with NSX-T
PKS with NSX-T requires a number of "public" facing IPs for deployed Kubernetes clusters. "Public" in this case just means IPs that would be route-able on the network NSX-T is uplinked to. These IPs are pulled from the IP Pool defined as the "Floating IP Pool" in the PKS tile configuration in Pivotal Operations Manager. 1 IP to use for an SNAT rule for all the VMs for the k8s Cluster if those VMs are deployed in NAT mode 1 IP to use with a Virtual Server to front end the k8s Master Nodes 1 IP to use for an HTTP/S Ingress Virtual Server 1 IP to use for an SNAT rule for each namespace 1 IP to use with a Virtual Server for each LoadBalancer service provisioned So for each cluster PKS deploys you will consume at least the following (if in NAT mode): Type IP Addresses Cluster VMs SNAT 1 Master Node(s) Virtual Server 1 Ingress Virtual Server 1 SNAT for default, kube-public, kube-system, and pks-system namespaces 4 Total 7 On ...