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  • TAS/ALB Installation Series – Part 5

    In this post, we will look into the procedure of setting up the CLIs that we will need to manage our TAS/BOSH/Operations Manager environment. Operations Manager CLI Setup Download and Install the binary on to a bastion host using the following set of commands: Create an env file with the following content (vi ~/.env): Save…

  • TAS/ALB Installation Series – Part 4

    BOSH Director Setup Logging in to Operations Manager for the first time post deployment, should get you to the following screen. This BOSH director tile is present by default when an OpsManager is deployed. Using the vCenter Config pane, set up your vCenter Server for provisioning by following the prompts and filling in the respective…

  • TAS/ALB Installation Series – Part 3

    In my previous articles, I spoke about deploying and setting up AVI controller. In this article, we will discuss the pre-requisites required to setup TAS both from a NSX-T and AVI perspective. NSX-T Pre-requisites Constructs to be used by ALB We will first create security groups that we will use while creating LBs on AVI….

  • TAS/ALB Installation Series – Part 2

    In my earlier post, I covered the OVA deployment procedure of Opsman and AVI controller. In this article, the focus would be to setup the controller and configure the cloud endpoint to be used for the deployment. Initial Configuration I have created a DNS entry for my controller’s IP address. Hence accessing it via the…

  • TAS/ALB Installation Series – Part 1

    Tanzu Application Service or TAS (formerly: PCF/Pivotal Cloud Foundry) is now rebranded as Tanzu Platform for Cloud Foundry. To keep it simple, TAS orchestrates your app deployment and does *A LOT* behind the screens. “cf push” is the command that bootstraps your app and runs the app processes within a container in a special VM…

  • CCI – Provision a TKG cluster

    In my previous article, I described the process of enabling the Cloud Consumption Interface or CCI which enables you to deploy TKG workloads to a Supervisor Cluster via UI. Here, I will walk through the steps involved in using the UI to provision a cluster using the default and custom configuration. Provisioning a cluster through…

  • Supervisor Cloud Consumption Interface – vSphere 8.0U3

    vCenter 8.0U3 was made generally available alongside VCF 5.2 on 25th June. While there are a lot of enhancements across the suite of products, I would like to describe about one such supervisor cluster related feature in this blog. Starting 8.0U3, what used to be known as vSphere with Tanzu, will now be termed as…

  • Concourse 7.11.2 – Installation Series – Part 2

    Install concourse in an air-gapped environment

  • Concourse 7.11.2 – Installation Series – Part 1

    Concourse is an open source CI/CD tool that helps you automate and efficiently operate an enterprise environment. As defined in the concourse org page, it’s simple approach makes it great for continuous integration and delivery. While this is a open-source tool, Concourse for VMware Tanzu is a variant that is distributed through the Tanzu Network…

  • Persistent Volumes Migration in a vSphere Environment

    Recently, I came across a customer scenario where a storage refresh had to be performed in a TKGi environment, which meant migrating all existing infrastructure including the Persistent Volumes to new data stores. I intend to cover the steps involved in this migration on a very high level, while the focus being Persistent Volumes migration….