Overview Using vRealize Automation 8 (either SaaS or On-Prem) directly via the GUI or even the REST API is all well and good but what about if you have slightly different requirement such as creating and consuming constructs and content as code. One of the major selling points of vRA is the IaC use case … Continue reading vRA with Terraform
vRA with Cloud-init and Static Networking
Overview This article is all about leveraging the static network assignment construct in vRA Cloud/8 Cloud Assembly blueprints and the impact this has (currently) on provisioning vSphere VMs. This topic seems to cause lots of head scratching and issues, really because currently if you try and leverage static address assignments (i.e. asking vRA to assign … Continue reading vRA with Cloud-init and Static Networking
Identity Management – Scale Out via vRSLCM
Overview VMware Identity Manager aka vIDM (soon to be known as Workspace One Access) is a key piece of the vRealize Automation stack. Previous versions of vRA used an embedded build of vIDM within the vRA appliance and allowed the identity management capabilities to scale out as vRA itself scaled. With vRA 8 this is … Continue reading Identity Management – Scale Out via vRSLCM
vRealize Automation – Customizing IP Assignments with vRO
Overview Today I thought I'd get back to vRealize Automation 8, in particular leveraging extensibility. Previously I have shown some examples of breaking out of the provisioning lifecycle to perform some external operations (CMDB updates etc.) however this time I want to look at how you can augment the provisioning process with information from external … Continue reading vRealize Automation – Customizing IP Assignments with vRO
vRealize Operations – Showing Data Frequency and Quantity as Metrics
Overview During the course of content development within vRealize Operations you will come across occasions where you need to know/show how often and how many certain types of behaviors occur within a given time period. Although we can track when a behavior occurs through the use of symptoms and alert definitions as well as adding … Continue reading vRealize Operations – Showing Data Frequency and Quantity as Metrics
PKS – Upgrade to Enterprise PKS 1.6
Overview Enterprise PKS 1.6 has recently been released which has some interesting additions when it comes to managing PKS clusters, the most exiting being the Tanzu Mission Control integration which is currently in BETA. In this article I am going to document the process of moving from PKS 1.5 to 1.6 so that I can … Continue reading PKS – Upgrade to Enterprise PKS 1.6
vRealize Automation 7 to 8 Migration Assessment
vRealize Automation 8 comes with significant changes to architecture, constructs and concepts from vRA 7.x and previous. For those customers who are thinking about migrating a 7.5+ based system to 8.x, an assessment is vital to verify how ready you are to head in this direction and the configuration you will likely need to address. … Continue reading vRealize Automation 7 to 8 Migration Assessment
PKS – Getting Started Part 8 Harbor Registry
Overview This is the last part in my Getting Started series for Enterprise PKS. In this article I am going to be looking at how we deploy and utilize the VMware Harbor registry with PKS to store container images, enabling users to push to and pull from Harbor as required. Other articles in this series … Continue reading PKS – Getting Started Part 8 Harbor Registry
PKS – Getting Started Part 7 Cluster Access
Overview In part 5 of this series I covered access control for PKS. In this article I am going to step down a level and see how I can control and grant access into individual PKS clusters for users/groups which are not already defined as PKS admins/cluster admins using a combination of PKS CLI and … Continue reading PKS – Getting Started Part 7 Cluster Access
PKS – Getting Started Part 6 Cluster Operations
Overview In this part of my PKS Getting Started series I'm going to show a couple of examples of how you can interact with PKS to spin up clusters and what the end result is from an infrastructure and platform perspective. Links to the other articles in this series can be found below. Part 1 … Continue reading PKS – Getting Started Part 6 Cluster Operations
