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OpenShift 4.10 on VMware – Introducing the out-of-the-box vSphere CSI Driver installation

OpenShift Container Platform defaults to using an in-tree (non-CSI) plug-in to provision vSphere storage. What’s New? In OpenShift 4.9, the out-of-the-box installation of the vSphere CSI driver was tech preview. This has now moved to GA! This means during an Installer-Provisioned-Installation cluster bring up, the vSphere CSI driver will be enabled. This is part of … Continue reading OpenShift 4.10 on VMware – Introducing the out-of-the-box vSphere CSI Driver installation

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Tanzu Observability – First look at monitoring OpenShift & VMware Cloud on AWS

Recently, I was involved in some work to assist the VMware Tanzu Observability team to assist them in updating their deliverables for OpenShift. Now it’s generally available, I found some time to test it out in my lab. For this blog post, I am going to pull in metrics from my VMware Cloud on AWS … Continue reading Tanzu Observability – First look at monitoring OpenShift & VMware Cloud on AWS

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Deploying vSphere with Tanzu Clusters using vRA and Cluster Plans

In this blog post I am covering the vRealize Automation native feature that allows you to deploy Tanzu clusters via the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Service of vCenter. If you have been following my posts in 2021, I wrote a blog and presented as part of VMworld on how to deploy Tanzu Clusters using vRA Code … Continue reading Deploying vSphere with Tanzu Clusters using vRA and Cluster Plans

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Tanzu Service Mesh – First look at deploy, configure and managing an app between clusters

I’ve finally found the time to dive into Tanzu Service Mesh (TSM), a product which has intrigued me greatly. In this blog post I cover setting up TSM, and configuring application connectivity between two clusters running in different public clouds. What is a Service Mesh? In software architecture, a service mesh is a dedicated infrastructure … Continue reading Tanzu Service Mesh – First look at deploy, configure and managing an app between clusters

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OpenShift on VMware – Integrating with vSphere Storage, Networking and Monitoring.

I was honoured to be a guest on the “Ask an OpenShift Admin” webinar recently. Where I had the chance to talk about OpenShift on VMware, always a hot topic, and how we co-innovate and work together on solutions. You can watch the full session below. Keep reading to see the content I didn’t get … Continue reading OpenShift on VMware – Integrating with vSphere Storage, Networking and Monitoring.