VMware Tanzu Application Platform So, what is it? VMware Tanzu Application Platform delivers a superior developer experience for enterprises building and deploying cloud-native applications on Kubernetes. It enables application teams to get to production faster by automating source to production pipelines, and it clearly defines the roles of developers and operators so they can work collaboratively instead of stepping on…
Intel NUC HomeLab BOM
UPDATE: Sold Have finally decided to sell my Intel NUC based VMware vSphere home lab, it’s not being used anymore as I’m fortunate to have access to more powerful hardware at work. In summary, it’s 4 nodes with a total of 16 cores (32 threads) of 2.9GHz (boost to 3.5GHz), 224GB memory, and 2TB storage. Essentially everything you need, bar…
All Things VMware Tanzu Mission Control at VMworld 2020
VMworld 2020 is just around the corner with hundreds of amazing sessions. Here I have compiled a list of those that cover VMware Tanzu Mission Control Live MAP2868 – Manage Policy and Security for Kubernetes Clusters across teams and clouds – Eryn Muetzel MAP2786 – Expert Round-table – Everything you need to know about Tanzu Mission Control – Eryn…
Kubernetes Podcasts
Updated: 21st September 2020 Like many blog posts or tweets of mine, they come from being asked the same question more than once! This time its what podcasts do I listen to in the Kubernetes space and the ecosystem around it? So, here you go… podcasts I listen to in no particular order: The Podlets TGIK Cloud & Culture The…
All Things Cluster API
Updated: 27th April 2020 I’m often asked by those who are starting their journey with Kubernetes, what is this “Cluster API” I keep hearing about? I draw a few diagrams and send on several links but then light bulb moment, throw all the links into one page and share that one page, genius! If you have some links to good…
PKS Troubleshooting – Part 1: Using BOSH CLI
Intro In my previous blog series I stepped though how to build a Enterprise PKS (will reference as PKS from here out) and NSX-T home lab nested env from the ground up which was well received and referenced by many. In this series I will guide you through how to troubleshoot PKS. First up is using BOSH CLI. BOSH Overview…
PKS Resources
Updated: 5th December 2019 From delivering Enterprise PKS workshops, conference sessions, customer briefings, corridor conversations, to helping people over slack, email, and phone, I keep finding myself pointing people to the same resources as-well as my own How to install NSX-T and PKS blog series and Troubleshooting PKS blog series. Light bulb moment, why not document and share them with…
How to Delete NSX-T Protected Objects
Was messing around with my VMware PKS and NSX-T nested environment today and in the process broke it. Broke it beyond the point PKS couldn’t cleanup NSX-T, don’t ask!! See here how to delete a cluster. If interested in building out your own PKS on NSX-T environment, see my series PKS NSX-T Home Lab series here. Objects created in NSX-T…
Upgrade NSX-T from 2.3 to 2.3.1
Just a quick blog post in case its useful to others to see the steps of a NSX-T upgrade, in this case its from 2.3 to 2.3.1 As its holiday season, and time with the family, its a stream of screen grabs and some comments. This upgrade was performed on one of my PKS NSX-T nested environments in my home…
PKS NSX-T Home Lab – Part 12: Create a K8s Cluster
Intro In the previous post in this series we configured and deployed PKS. Now that we have a PKS API endpoint, we are going to create a kubernetes cluster. Complete list of blog post in this series… Part 1: Shopping list Part 2: Install and configure ESXi on the NUCs Part 3: Deploy core VMs (DC, vCenter, jump host, router)…