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...
Recently another TAM requested some infos on this topic in VMware’s slack, finally giving me the push to publish as I had this post for ages in my drafts. Given, it is somewhat of an edge case for only a hand full of customers and the problem itself is not new but here is my take. As always please do your own research...
While bringing myself up-to-date with NSX-T I struggled with the terminology in relation to my existing NSX-v knowledge. There are quite a few awesome blog posts around -v or -T and I am trying to compare the “edge” at a high level. I hesitated to make a public post out of it since I am myself quite new to NSX-T and my...
This blog post has not the intend to define what a requirement/constraint is, there are already very good posts out there. Lately I pointed a lot of people over to Jeffrey Kusters who did an excellent job of summarizing it but I included also two other good links:...
Disclaimer: I am by no means an expert on this topic nor have I got the feeling that my performance during the VCDX defense was exceptional. However, some basic training got me from “zero” to at least one step further - more or less readable handwriting. We all take it for granted - there is a whiteboard in the room...
On December 13th, 2018 I received an email that confirmed that I passed the VCDX certification. For me this marks the end of a chapter which I would call the VCDX journey and I have to thank many, many people for supporting me along the way up to this point. Easily the longest supporter of my efforts has been Bilal...
Just a quick drop of notes on how to configure this if anyone else needs it. You probably searched the net and found tons of howtos on policy-based VPNs. However, I needed to do a route-based VPN my Azure resources with multi-devices and you can have only a single VPN-policy on a Gateway. Infos on IPSEC settings where...