This blog post is thanks to an internal query, that I thought should be easy enough to complete, however my usage of an ELK environment is limited, so it was a good chance to dig in and learn something new. In this blog post, I’m going to detail the configurations for pushing vRealize Operations Alert … Continue reading Sending vRealize Operations Alerts to ElasticStack (ELK)
The first blog post of this two part series covered getting our vRealize Automation and SaltStack Config environments prepared, a Windows Server template prepared, and a testing a successful deployment that has the SaltStack minion installed. In this second part, we’ll now focus on setting up out state files to configure the Windows Server to … Continue reading Deploying a Windows VM using vRealize Automation & configuring with SaltStack Config – Part 2
The Issue I was hitting issues when trying to use the Salt Win-Repo to install software. Below is a copy of my state file. ensure_malwarebytes_installed: pkg.installed: – pkgs: – malwarebytes It would fail with the below helpful error messages. But most importantly, I’d check the minion, to find the software was actually installed. { “return”: … Continue reading A debugging example of Salt Win-Repo issues
This walk-through will detail the technical configurations for using vRA Code Stream to deploy Google Kubernetes Clusters (GKE), register them as: Kubernetes endpoints in vRA Cloud Assembly and Code Stream An attached in Tanzu Mission Control Onboard in Tanzu Service Mesh This post mirrors my other blog posts following similar concepts: Using vRA to deploy … Continue reading vRealize Automation – Deploying a GKE Cluster with Code Stream, add to Tanzu Mission Control & Tanzu Service Mesh
I’m really excited to get this interview out of the door. I missed Daniel’s session at KubeCon, “From Kubernetes to PaaS to … Err, What’s Next?”. The room was packed, I wasn’t able to sit in, so instead I watched it from the KubeCon live stream, sat on the beanbags in the hallway. The session … Continue reading Interview with Daniel Bryant, Ambassador Labs – Kubernetes, PaaS, Err what’s next?