TKGS failing to authenticate with the NSX ALB (AVI)

Wed, 02 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000

While rebuilding my lab from scratch with vSphere 7.0 U3c NSX Advanced (AVI) Load Balancer 21.1.3 I hit a situation where my TKGS installation would not continue with an error, it was stuck for hours: The control plane VM was unable to authenticate to the load balancer (Avi - https://:443/api/cluster) with the username '' and the supplied password. Validate the Supervisor cluster load balancer's authentication configuration. To make a long story short, while user, password and connectivity check out it looks like the AVI defaults changed along the way.

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TKGS failing to authenticate with the NSX ALB (AVI)