I have worked most of my professional life with systems built with Intel x86, x64 and ia64 chips. Intel processors use Complex Instruction Set Computing while Arm uses Reduced Instruction Set Computing. Processors with CISC architecture look to move complexity to hardware to simlify code, so small code sizes with high …

macOS 10.15 Catalina changed default Terminal from bash to zsh. When I first moved I tried Powerline extension but it was always a bit slow and really I all I need is a custom prompt. So today I revisited this and created a custom prompt for Zsh and learned a little along the way. First I create an empty ~/.hushlogin …

iSH is a project which offers a Linux shell environment on iOS using a usermode x86 emulator. The emulator is based on Alpine Linux but does not ship with SSH or APK the Alpine Linux package manager. To install the package manager with iSH and ultimately other tools we can download this with Safari from following URL. …

Here we will explore an example of how an application can be secured using NSX Advanced Load Balancer. The application is deployed to Cloud Foundation on-premises and is extended to other geographic regions using both Amazon Web Services and Azure public clouds. The application is two tier, Ant Media servers provide a …

What is Antrea Antrea is Container Network Interface (CNI) plugin for Kubernetes. The Antrea CNI leverages Open vSwitch (OVS) to provides an overlay network and security services for a Kubernetes cluster. The overlay encapsulation uses Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN) by default, although Generic Network Virtualization …

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 …

I’d heard lots of great things about Peloton however it the basic bike costs £1,990. I really wanted to see what I had been missing out but couldn’t justify the cost so set about creating a custom solution. Peloton Membership Peloton membership is required to provide access to their live workout classes and …

I’d been exploring Project Pacific during its beta in my homelab for a while. When vSphere 7 and NSX-T 3.0 went GA I took chance to rebuild lab and consolidate much of the configuration I’d been applying iteratively. My lab hardware specification is a constraint so I’ve had to deviate from …

Our shopping affects people, animals and the environment. Every purchase we make has huge repercussions down the supply chain socially, economically and environmentally. Over recent years we have all become much more aware of our impact to the planet. Shop Locally I was raised in rural UK where my parents where …