Cluster API Provider Vmware Desktop (Workstation, Fusion)

Description

The Cluster API Provider Vmware Desktop (CAVD) provides a way to declaratively create and manage cluster on Vmware Desktop with vmrest, in a Kubernetes-native way. It extends the Kubernetes API with Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) allowing you to interact with clusters in the same fashion you interact with workload.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Understanding Cluster API Quick Start
• Vmware Desktop Hypervisor (Workstation or Fusion, tested only with Fusion)
• Prepared Virtual Machine by image-builder with build-node-ova-local- or factory-talos Cloud/Vmware (only amd64 supports by Talos)
• Running vmrest Doc

Required env variables

# Example
VMREST_URL="http://host.docker.internal:8697/api" # http://localhost:8697/api vmrest url
VMREST_USERNAME="user"
VMREST_PASSWORD="password"
TEMPLATE_VM_ID="LIVK1CGKIC5J71SNTC711F7O9TR3BDDQ" # VM ID from vmrest/api/vms prepared with defined kubernetes version

Available template flavors --flavor

• flannel
• talos

License

Copyright 2025.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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