The same Cluster manifest applied by kubectl and requested through the catalog — and what the second path adds for free

One VKS cluster, two ways: kubectl vs VCF Automation All Apps

I built the same VKS cluster twice on the same supervisor: once with kubectl apply, once as a VCF Automation All Apps request. The Cluster object is identical. Everything around it isn’t — and the payoff table is what you get for free the second way: catalog, quota class, org RBAC, VCF Operations visibility.

16 September 2026 · 4 min · Adam Stretton