PKS availability zone 

PKS supports the concept of an availability zone (AZ), that is, AZ = vSphere cluster + resource pool. The AZ dictates the placement of a VM that's created by BOSH/PKS into the corresponding vSphere cluster/resource pool.

There are two types of AZ:

  • Management AZ: Used for BOSH, PKS control plane, and Harbor VMs
  • Compute AZ: Used for K8s master and worker node VMs

PKS supports multiple compute availability zones, and each PKS plan supports up to three distinct ones. Each K8s master node (for a max of three) will land in one separate AZ. K8s worker nodes will be dispatched across the three zones.

Three PKS plans are allowed (for a total of nine distinct compute zones). Each PKS plan can use the same three zones or a completely ...

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