In this blog post, I am going to take you through how to get started with VMware Aria Hub, and connect your first public cloud account, in this example, AWS. What is VMware Aria Hub? Before we dive into the technical pieces, what is VMware Aria Hub? If we take the marketing definition: VMware Aria … Continue reading VMware Aria Hub and AWS Setup: A Guide to Getting Started
In this blog post I’m going to dive into how you can create a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid cluster and specify your own container network interface, for example, Cilium. Expanding on the installation, I’ll also cover installing a load balancer service, deploying a demo app, and showing some of the observability feature as well. What is … Continue reading How to Deploy a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid cluster using the Cilium CNI
In this blog post, I am going to cover the configuration and consumption of the Tanzu Observability integration with vRealize Operations Cloud. As this is blog post is released during VMware Explore, under the announcement of the VMware Aria brand for Cloud Management tooling, these products will become vRealize Operations Cloud > VMware Aria Operations … Continue reading Tanzu Observability – Configuring vRealize Operations Cloud Integration
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