Update [2022-10-17] The VMware APIs for the KnowledgeBase have introduced a breaking change. This means the releases can no longer be updated without further development. I started a project with the goal to re-format VMware product release information in a way that can be used in automation and scripting. These days,...

This is the fourth part in a multi-part series about the automation of VMware vSphere template builds. A template is a pre-installed virtual machine that acts as master image for cloning virtual machines from it. In this series I am describing how to get started on automating the process. As I am writing these blog...

This is the third part in a multi-part series about the automation of VMware vSphere template builds. A template is a pre-installed virtual machine that acts as master image for cloning virtual machines from it. In this series I am describing how to get started on automating the process. As I am writing these blog post...

This is the second part in a multi-part series about the automation of VMware vSphere template builds. A template is a pre-installed virtual machine that acts as master image for cloning virtual machines from it. In this series I am describing how to get started on automating the process. As I am writing these blog...

This is a multi-part series about the automation of VMware vSphere template builds. A template is a pre-installed virtual machine that acts as master image for cloning virtual machines from it. In this series I am describing how to get started on automating the process. As I am writing these blog post while working on...

A happy new year to all of you! In the recent days I migrated a good deal of blog posts from the old Wordpress installation over. Thankfully there is already a solution available on github which is not without flaw but handles the bulk of the work. Judging by access numbers the favorites in no particular order are:...

The Christmas holidays provided me a bit of time for some good old tinkering: a Python script here, a blog post there and now some Hugo. The project got a bit out of hand as I stumbled into a full CI/CD pipeline with GitLab Actions – but that is probably worth another post. I hope you like the looks – even though the...

I started looking a bit into Kubernetes and for no other reason than curiosity I wanted to visualize some dependencies to get a better understanding on how things work, e.g. where my container (pods) actually spawn when I apply one of these nice YAML files with a deployment. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to find a get...

Update from 2020-01-11 below Life was good when I was playing around with Minikube on my private Windows Notebook until I had the (stupid) idea to use choco to update everything to the latest version. Now, Minikube would not start and notably these two packages were updated: VMware Workstation 15 Pro: 15.5.1...

As I am finally getting more command line time again I started looking at my tools – especially the terminal/shell – since watching in awe what people are using left and right (for example Cody de Arkland in some VMworld presentations). After some research I realised that I am completely ignorant in this topic and...