What is SaltStack SaltStack (also known as Salt) is an open-source configuration management and remote execution tool designed for managing and automating infrastructure. SaltStack enables desired state management by allowing administrators to define the intended configuration of systems declaratively through Salt …

I’m looking at event-based architectures as a method for building loosely coupled relationships between products. To this end I am creating various functions which I’d like to trigger on an event in a product. Knative is an extension of Kubernetes which enables serverless workloads to run on Kubernetes. …

I have been using a collection of products to maintain docker images. GitHub now provides suite of products which encompass all I require. This post documents the process I followed to create a CI pipeline for a container running static web site built with Jekyll. The static web site content is created from a fork of …

I was looking to programaticly configuring VMware Storage Profile recently. My scripting language of choice is Python, VMware maintain pyVmomi is which is the Python SDK for the VMware vSphere API. pyVmomi can be used to form binding and configure the vSphere Web Services API and the VMware Storage Policy API. The …

vRealize Operations Manager (vROps) exposes some of its configuration via RESTful API. With this we can look to programatically control its configuration. My workflow is to use a REST client to explore API and validate payload formatting before moving to script the steps. My REST client of choice is Postman. Performing …

vRealize Automation Cloud and 8.x allows you to deploy and configure cloud agnostic virtual machines. To achieve agnostic in-guest OS customization capability across for on-premises vSphere, AWS, GCP and Azure endpoints cloud-init is used for Linux guests and cloudbase-init is used for Windows guests. Inital Attempt …

I recently began looking more closely at cloud-init for customizing VMware guest VMs. This caused me some heachaches! I took various notes while troubleshooting and researching around this. Why Guest OS Customization Is Needed When you clone a virtual machine or deploy a virtual machine from a template it clones the …

VMware Cloud Automation Services is a product suite comprising three products, Cloud Assembly, Service Broker and Code Stream. Cloud Assembly provides a blueprinting engine and manages connectivity to multiple cloud endpoints. Service Broker provides a unified catalog for publishing blueprints with role-based policies. …

Hashicorp Terraform is a tool which enables you to safely and predictably create, change, and improve infrastructure by defining its configuration as code. VMware NSX-T is a product which enables software defined network infrastructure. The Terraform NSX-T provider allows us to deliver and maintain NSX-T configuration …