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Helloooo! Lately I've been getting a lot of requests from customers on how they can leverage NSX-ALB to specify a Static IP Address on their L7 Ingress Objects in a Kubernetes based environment. So I decided to deep dive into it. It's no secret that you can specify a preferred Static IP Address for L4 … Continue reading How to specify a Static IP Address on Kubernetes Ingress Objects with NSX-ALB (Avi)
Helloooo! Lately I was working for a customer who would like to have the capability to take Incremental Backups of their Persistent Volumes in their Tanzu Kubernetes Clusters. They were leveraging Kasten K10 for backing up the Tanzu Kubernetes environment. Kasten leverages the vSphere API for Incremental Backups and relies on the Change Block Tracking … Continue reading TKGS – Quick Tip – How to enable Change Block Tracking (CBT) in vSphere with Tanzu + NSX-ALB
Hi! In today's Quick-Tip I'll showcase briefly how you can leverage any OCI Registry to store your Helm Charts in. Harbor is an OCI Registry and can thus be used to store Helm Charts in and deploy Helm Charts from. Prerequisites ComponentValueHarborVersion >= 2.0.0Harbor ProjectCreate a regular Project in Harbor where you would like to … Continue reading Harbor – Quick Tip – Leverage an OCI Registry with Helm
Helloooo! Lately I had the opportunity to work with NVIDIA AI Enterprise (NVAIE) on vSphere with Tanzu (TKGS). There is plenty of online documentation available on both VMware's & NVIDIA's side, however I had a hard time finding the correct documentation to alter the necessary bits and pieces for my customer. Hence I aim to … Continue reading Harbor – Quick Tip – Create Proxy Cache Repository for the NVIDIA Global Catalog Repository (nvcr.io)
Hellooo!! This year I tried to focus more on creating video content & improving my public speaking skills. For which I have been grateful to host sessions on the VMUGBE, VMUGFR and 2 Tanzu Summer Schools in Belgium / Luxemburg. We also had the opportunity to create video content for our ITQ YouTube channel in … Continue reading How to get started with Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKGS/TKGm) – Part 2
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
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
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.
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
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
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