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Announcing General Availability of VMware vRealize Automation 8.7
🚀 Announcing General Availability of VMware vRealize Automation 8.7 Today we are announcing VMware vRealize Automation 8.7, the latest release of VMware’s powerful and easy-to-use infrastructure automation platform. With a modern infrastructure automation solution, customers can help reduce overall application development cost, complexity, time to [...]
Avi (NSX-ALB) – Multiple Applications behind the same VIP
Hi! Earlier I wrote a blog post about creating a Reverse Proxy with Avi for my Nexus Repository. So I already have an existing Virtual Service in Avi that presents the Nexus Repository website on port 443. The VIP is 10.10.60.15. Current Setup ComponentDetailsNexus Repository Virtual Service Namepotus-nexusrepoNexus Repository Virtual Service VIP10.10.60.15Nexus Repository Virtual Service … Continue reading Avi (NSX-ALB) – Multiple Applications behind the same VIP
TKGs – Quick Tip – How to integrate External Container Registry in vSphere with Tanzu
Hello! After you've enabled Workload Management in vSphere it is a good time to make TKGs trust your own Container Registry if you have one. In my case it's a Nexus Repository 3 listening on port 5000 on IP address 10.10.60.15. You'll also need the SSL Certificate of your Container Registry. In order to tell … Continue reading TKGs – Quick Tip – How to integrate External Container Registry in vSphere with Tanzu
TKGs – Use NSX-ALB (Avi) as Ingress Controller for vSphere with Tanzu
Lately I've been playing around with Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Multicloud (TKGm) and Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Service (TKGs) in combination with NSX - Advanced Load Balancer (Avi). A common Use Case is to provide your K8s environment with an Ingress Controller. While in TKGm this seems to be straight forward and thoroughly documented by VMware here, the TKGs approach remained a bit vague to me.
Nexus Repository 3 behind Avi (NSX-ALB) Reverse Proxy
Hello! A while back I wrote a short blog article on how to setup your own Nexus Repository. By default the Nexus Repository is presented over HTTP, from the beginning I wanted to present this to clients as HTTPS. My initial idea was to use NGINX; however lately I have been playing around a lot … Continue reading Nexus Repository 3 behind Avi (NSX-ALB) Reverse Proxy
vRA 8 + Request VM via Rest API
Few days ago a customer asked me "Jose, can we do request of virtual machines via rest API?". I said, yeah!!! but just for curiosity I asked why? For a customer that has vRA 8 self service portal, brand new and all the fancy icons, day 2 operations and a bunch of features? Why would … Continue reading vRA 8 + Request VM via Rest API
TKG/TCE – Quick Tip – How to SSH easily into your TKG/TCE Nodes using SSH Public Key Authentication
Hi! Lately I've been playing around with TKG & TCE a bit. If you've deployed TKG/TCE Clusters yourself too, you know that at some point you needed to provide an SSH key-pair so you could easily access the TKG/TCE Nodes afterwards. But how exactly? You need to use the 'capv' user and your SSH key … Continue reading TKG/TCE – Quick Tip – How to SSH easily into your TKG/TCE Nodes using SSH Public Key Authentication
TCE – How to deploy a Standalone Cluster on vSphere 7
Hellooo again! After the easy setup of TCE (see my blogpost here) it's time to deploy a simple small development Tanzu Standalone Cluster on vSphere. Let's do this! My Setup? My Setup looks as follows: vCenter 7.0.2Intel NUC NUC10i5FNH ESXi 7.0.1 with 8 Logical CPUs & 32 GB RAMMacBook Pro (x86; not M1) as Bootstrap … Continue reading TCE – How to deploy a Standalone Cluster on vSphere 7
Log4j – How to patch VMware vRLSCM, vIDM, vRA 7.6-8.x (VMSA-2021-0028)
Hi! Over the past few days a critical vulnerability has been identified in the Apache Log4j module and lots of applications over the world are affected by this. The latest information regarding VMware Products which have been affected by this vulnerability can be found here: https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2021-0028.html To make our readers life easier, hereby how to … Continue reading Log4j – How to patch VMware vRLSCM, vIDM, vRA 7.6-8.x (VMSA-2021-0028)
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