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  • Introduction To Docker Container Networking

    Nov 18, 2019 docker
    Introduction To Docker Container Networking

    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. …

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  • Cloudbased-init For vSphere

    Sep 26, 2019 vm guest customization cloudbased-init vra vsphere
    Cloudbased-init For vSphere

    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 …

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  • Understanding VMware Guest OS Customization

    Sep 11, 2019 vm guest customization cloud-init vra vsphere
    Understanding VMware Guest OS Customization

    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 …

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  • Cloud Assembly VM Guest Management With Ansible

    Aug 1, 2019 ansible cloud assembly
    Cloud Assembly VM Guest Management With Ansible

    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. …

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  • NSX-T for Planespotter

    Feb 14, 2019 nsx flask planespotter
    NSX-T for Planespotter

    Moving towards application centric infrastructure suitable for microservices applications requires a good example application to work with. I saw an NSX demo presented by Yves Fauser where he used just such an application called planespotter. My first task towards understanding this more was to get this setup in my …

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  • Controlling NSX-T with Terraform

    Jan 7, 2019 nsx terraform
    Controlling NSX-T with Terraform

    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 …

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  • NSX-T for OpenShift

    Jul 28, 2018 nsx openshift kubernetes
    NSX-T for OpenShift

    While looking at the various documentation sets I found it difficult to understand the NSX-T and OpenShift integration. A lot was masked by configuration performed by Ansible scripts. Here I try and record my understanding of the technology and then work through getting this running in a capacity constrained lab …

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  • Calling the NSX REST API with vRO and Navigating The XML Response

    Jun 20, 2018 nsx vro rest
    Calling the NSX REST API with vRO and Navigating The XML Response

    While the NSX for vSphere plugin for vRealize Orchestrator is useful, occasionally there are limitations. For example when creating an NSX Edge Services Gateway we use this method. NSXEdgeTrinityBasicController.createEdgeV4 That method returns void, so next you need to make a second method call using filter by name to …

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  • VCDX6-DCV Defence Experience

    Jun 7, 2018 vcdx
    VCDX6-DCV Defence Experience

    In 2013 I was a systems engineer, I worked mostly on automation scripting for consistently delivering virtualized infrastructure on VMware. A job I’d enjoyed but was ready to move my career forwards, my at the time colleague Richard Dowling and I started looked into pursuing advanced VMware certification. In …

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  • VMware Certified Advanced Professional - Data Center Virtualization Design

    Jun 7, 2018 vcap
    VMware Certified Advanced Professional - Data Center Virtualization Design

    Having passed the VCAP5-DCD exam with little to no studying only eighteen months ago and VCIX6-NV since. All things considered I was pretty confident of doing well in the VCAP6-DCV Design exam, and when I completed exam I was pretty sure I’d passed. To my surprise I failed the exam with a 285, to make matters …

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