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 …

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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 …

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When I was co-located in office with the other members of my team I never really had to put much thought into the structure of the working day. I turned up around 9am, took 30m lunch at 12noon and left around 5:00pm. My work is delivering solutions which often span several weeks or months as such I have a great deal of …

When developing a cloud native application using Docker containers she soon needs to understand how Docker containers communicate. In previous post I looked at how Docker containers communicate on a single host. When the developer wants to scaleout capacity of the hosting across multiple hosts or increase abailability …

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When developing a cloud native application using Docker containers understanding network connectivity between containers and non-Docker workloads such as other servers and cloud APIs is essential. Docker’s networking subsystem is pluggable using drivers, several drivers exist by default, and others can be added easily. …

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 …