Tech Insights

  • Velero and vSphere – Part 1

    It has been a while since I wrote something in the space. This one has been long overdue. Almost all enterprises are slowly migrating their workloads to cloud native spaces, either on-prem or on the cloud. There are many external factors that aids the decision making process of whether the cloud-native applications are going to…

  • The misery of a Solution User Certificate in vCenter..

    Probably this blog is never gonna be used.. Then why write it? Because only I know how i felt when I did what i did 🙂 Context: While playing around with my vSphere with Kubernetes labs, in the process of generating a wildcard certificate for workload management and retrieving the private key of the CSR…

  • Enable Workload Management – vSphere with Tanzu

    Tanzu has become the buzz word off-late. While VMware offers a variety of Tanzu services, this blog would concentrate on enabling vSphere with Tanzu or TKGs as they call it. Starting vSphere 7, your hypervisor’s (ESXi Servers) are capable of acting in similar capacity to a worker node of a kubernetes cluster, by using the…

  • Deploy your first K8s app!

    All good things take time they say. I have come to realise this is kind of true. Been a while since I wrote.. You see where I am getting at? Never mind.. Let me jump right into it. If you have been following me, you would have noticed me talking about setting up a K8s…

  • Setting up your private Image repository!

    I previously wrote about setting up a kubernetes cluster here and about how to further add nodes to that cluster here. As a follow up to this series of blogs, I would like to demonstrate setting up a private image repository here. Pre-requisites: Pre-installed docker client on any linux variant SSL Certs of the node…

  • Kubernetes Cluster: Adding a node

    My newfound love, Kubernetes or K8s (how its fondly known), has made my lazy weekends more meaningful. While I am at the very early stages of getting exposed to a production grade kubernetes environment, I continue to play around with the technology at every chance I get, with the least of resources I have managed…

  • vRA – Magic Deployment Wizard!

    Automation is a broader spectrum and one who fails to land his or her foot there, will regret now or later on the time he/she could have saved automating things! VMware as a company, enables their customers enjoy these time perks by delivering their cloud suite of products. One of them being vRealize Automation. vRA…

  • vRealize Automation 8.x – Easy Installer

    vRA 8.x is so special as VMware has finally moved on from its Windows-based deployment to a completely Linux based (containerized) architecture for all the components that it involves. Now customers wouldn’t have to worry about the reboot/bring-up sequence of the components anymore as it only involves one appliance which in-turn is managed through a…

  • Kubernetes – Setup your first cluster!

    With the tech world shifting its focus towards app modernization (as they call it), cloud native platforms have become increasingly popular. One such platform has become my new found love, of course, after other few priorities! To those who haven’t heard of Kubernetes or K8s before, I am sure you will regret for having missed…

  • vSphere 6.7 – brings back Re-pointing!

    While you may choose to ignore certain features of vCenter, you certainly can’t miss on this one. While i did miss on this one until today, I thought writing about it would make sense, after all. Before we begin, re-pointing vCenter isn’t completely new as this feature was in existence in the pre-PSC era of…