12.0

2 Run the vctl system start command to start the vctl container runtime.
This command performs the following tasks:
a Creates a bin folder in the <user home folder>/.vctl folder.
b Downloads kubectl, kind and crx.vmdk files, and saves them to the bin folder.
c Creates a docker link file that points to /Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/
Library/vkd/bin/vctl.
3 Run vctl kind command.
This command performs the following four tasks:
a Creates a bin folder in the <user home folder>/.vctl folder.
b Downloads kubectl, kind and crx.vmdk files, and saves them to the bin folder.
c Creates a docker link file that points to /Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/
Library/vkd/bin/vctl.
d Creates a vctl-based KIND context by adding <user home folder>/.vctl/bin to the
PATH environment variable and makes it the first searchable path.
So in the Terminal window, the kubectl/kind/docker CLI tools in the <user home
folder>/.vctl/bin folder will take precedence over other existing versions of these tools
that might be installed else where.
4 The vctl-based KIND context will be lost if you close the Terminal window.
Next time you want to interact with the Kubernetes clusters, run the vctl kind command.
Note
n vctl does not support kind build command.
n By default, vctl assigns 2 GB memory and 2 CPU cores for the CRX VM that hosts the
node container, you can use the --k8s-cpus and --k8s-mem options of vctl system
config command to customize the configurations.
n Each Fusion version supports only a specific version of kind CLI and kubectl CLI tools. For
example:
n Fusion 12.0.0 supports kind v0.8.1 and kubectl v1.18.6.
n Fusion 12.1.0 supports kind v0.9.0 and kubectl v1.19.1
The vctl utility in Fusion 12.1.0 introduces a version check for the kind and the kubectl CLI
tools. When you run vctl system start or vctl kind command, if the kind and the
kubectl CLI tools already exist in <user home folder>/.vctl/bin folder and their versions
are supported by current Fusion version, the vctl command will not download the tools
again. If their versions are not supported by current Fusion version, the vctl command will
download the supported versions of the tools and remove the unsupported ones.
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