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vRealize Operations – Costing Setup and Configuration Deep Dive

In years gone by, costing of your technology platforms was covered in a product called vRealize Business for Cloud. Since the move to the 8.x code based, this product was EOL’d. The main functions where customers saw value, to provide costings for your datacenter and virtual machines, was wrapped up into vRealize Operations. This blog … Continue reading vRealize Operations – Costing Setup and Configuration Deep Dive

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Tanzu Kubernetes Grid – Manual Certificate Renewal

The Issue Note: VMware has released a full in-depth KB Article that I’d advise you review along with this blog post. If you have any queries or concerns with the processes detailed, always open a support ticket! – How to rotate certificates in a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid cluster (86251) One day my Kubernetes cluster just … Continue reading Tanzu Kubernetes Grid – Manual Certificate Renewal

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vRealize Automation – Property groups deep dive

I had the pleasure of working with a customer who wanted to use property groups within vRealize Automation, to provide various configuration data to drive their deployments. They asked some queries about how to use property groups that went beyond the documentation, so I thought it would also make a good blog post. What are … Continue reading vRealize Automation – Property groups deep dive

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VMware Cloud on AWS Deep Dive – Activating, Deploying and Using the managed Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Service

In this blog post I’m going to deep dive into the end-to-end activation, deployment, and consuming of the managed Tanzu Services (Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Service > TKGS) within a VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC. I’ll deploy a Tanzu Cluster inside a vSphere Namespace, and then deploy my trusty Pac-Man application and make it Publicly Accessible. … Continue reading VMware Cloud on AWS Deep Dive – Activating, Deploying and Using the managed Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Service

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Tanzu Service Mesh – Monitor Service Level Objectives and Configure Service Autoscaling

Continuing from the First Look blog post, where we created a distributed application between different public cloud Kubernetes deployments and connected them via Tanzu Service Mesh. We will move onto some of the more advanced capabilities of Tanzu Service Mesh. In this blog post, we’ll look at how we can setup monitoring of our application … Continue reading Tanzu Service Mesh – Monitor Service Level Objectives and Configure Service Autoscaling