Last week I introduced you to vSphere Supervisor cluster APIs and also had a post on how to use DCLI for managing vSphere Supervisor cluster. In this post, I am going to show you how to enable/configure vSphere Supervisor cluster and also create namespace on the top of vSphere Supervisor cluster.
These key APIs are demonstrated using couple of python scripts. This time I thought let me try little different style of writing. I am sure you will enjoy learning.

1. Enable/configure vSphere Supervisor cluster :

What/Where/How	Link/Info
Where to refer REST API documentation?	Official API documentation or H5C –> Developer Center –> API Explorer
How do I land from VCF 4.0 on to vSphere for configuring this key workflow?	Refer this cool short video VCF 4.0 SDDC manager by Cormac
How do I create base setup for labs, learning purpose?	Refer this cool deployment script by William
My python script to configure Supervisor cluster on base setup	configure_supervisor_cluster.py script. Used python library “requests” to call APIs. We can use other “vSphere Automation SDKs” as well or Automating supervisor cluster workflows using Java SDK
Enable vSphere Supervisor cluster API	POST https://{server}/api/vcenter/namespace-management/clusters/{cluster} ?action=enable
Complete API Spec/payload for above POST call	API Spec
Enable API Spec/Payload I passed in my script	Github link for spec you can use the same for postman call
How did I fetched inputs needed to be passed into POST Call?	Refer line 139 through 178 in script
Sample run	Shown below
How it looks in UI before & after ?	Shown below

How to run script :
C:\vThinkBeyondVM\vcpy>python configure_supervisor_cluster.py -s “10.x.x.x” -u “Administrator@vsphere.local” -cl “WCP-cluster-1” -mnw “VM Network” -sip “10.x.x.x” -sm “255.255.x.x” -gw “10.x.x.x” -dns “10.x.x.x” -ntp “10.x.x.x” -sp “k8s-gc-policy” -egress “10.x.x.x” -ingress “10.x.x.x”

Password will be asked on CLI. You might wonder, am I not passing VDS and Edge cluster? please refer the line 161 through 170. REST APIs allowed me to use some trick.

Which UI workflow is automated?
This python script automates below UI worklow, where user will configure workload network, management network, storage etc.


How it looks from UI
once Super visor cluster is enabled, this is how it looks (H5C > Menu > Workload Management)

2. Creating your first namespace using script

Create namespace URL	POST https://{server}/api/vcenter/namespaces/instances
API payload/spec	payload
Python script	create_namespace.py
How to run	Shown below
How it looks from UI	Shown below

How to run script:
C:\vThinkBeyondVM\vcpy>python create_namespace.py -s 10.x.x.x -u Administrator@vsphere.local -cl WCP-cluster-1 -role EDIT -st USER -subject Administrator -domain vsphere.local -sp k8s-gc-policy -ns my-ns-2

How it looks from UI ?

I hope you enjoyed learning. Please stay tuned for upcoming posts around vSphere with K8s and other vSphere 7.0 functionality. Let me know if you have any queries, feedback.

Further reading:
1. REST API documentation
2. How to get vSphere with Kubernetes?
3. Introduction to manage vSphere Supervisor Cluster using API
4. Automating supervisor cluster workflows using Java SDK
5. vSphere with Kubernetes 101 is here
6. Official documentation for vSphere with Kubernetes is here