v0.12.1

v0.12.1

This is the initial release of the TCE demo appliance.
It incorporates a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) based on Tanzu Community Edition
release v0.12.1 and Photon OS.

Initial Release Changes Compared To The TKG Demo Appliance By @lamw

• Switched packer builder from VMware-ISO to vSphere-ISO per suggestion
• Trimmed disk size to 20GB
• Disk type is now thin provisioned
• Disk Controller switched to NVMe
• Switched cleanup space reclamation from dd to fstrim per suggestion
• Bumped vHW to 17 (ESXi 7 onwards)
• Switched base OS for the appliance to Photon OS version 4.0 Rev 2
• Switched to auto-download the latest version of kubectl by default
• Switched to ZSH theme to Powerline10k
• Auto-update appliance version from TCE release version (debatable if future proof)
• Switched to getOvfProperty.py to read OVF specs in the appliance and deprecated guest tool queries
• Removed IPv6 disable setting per Photon docs
• Instead used LinkLocal=no on eth0 to avoid an IPv6 address
• Updated network config to explicitly deploy a DHCP config if no static IP is specified (TY Erik)
• Disabled IPv6 support for docker daemon
• Added Debug build option that includes the current Git Hash in the OVA name for cross-reference
• Switched VM Firmware to UEFI
• As an additional option: TCE installer UI is now fronted by an ENVOY reverse proxy with SSL to add minimal transport layer security
• Added option to enable the ENVOY admin interface via OVA property
• IPtables is no longer disabled/stopped by default but rather using default ACCEPT policies