cluster-api vsphere workload clusters on esxi for arm
The following machine image is built from Photon OS 4.0 arm64 OVA, and includes:
kubeadm,kubelet,kubectlv1.21.2containerdconfigured with systemd cgroup drivercloud-initconfigured for vmware guestinfo datasourcecrictlconfigured forcontainerdsocket
https://cappi.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/kube-v1.21.2-photon-4-arm64.ova
simply import the ova into your esxi on arm vsphere cluster, then initialize a local (x86) capi mgmt cluster via kind. Once mgmt cluster is up, create workload cluster with the machine image.