Tanzu Kubernetes Grid, version 1.5.1 introduced support for bring your own host. The feature is in the alpha stage and shouldn’t be used for production deployments as of this post. This capability allows customers to run TKG on bare metal, or a VM they control. The use case for this could be something like a cell site where a customer…
Mainly documenting this for myself, but who knows, could come in handy for someone else as well. Over the past couple of months, I’ve been doing quite a bit on AWS. Many of you know I knocked out 4 certifications in under 8 weeks. To get some “real world” hands-on with a few services I moved my blog from a…
When I wrote this post I didn’t anticipate there would be a part 2. In that last post I got stumped trying to split a TKG cluster across multiple vCenter Servers, one being VMC’s hosted vCenter Server and the other vCenter Server I installed on VMC to manage remote ESXi hosts. Well I’m happy to report with some help from…
Since I’ve been doing a larger then usual amount of work with TKG I wanted to enable auto completion. Tanzu cli provides the means for both zsh and bash shell’s, but I was running into an issue getting it to work with zsh on macOS, which is my default shell. I searched for a good 30 minutes and couldn’t find…
At VMware we have a private slack channel for neurodiverse employees. One day someone asked if anyone in the group was at a P5 or higher (these are professional levels inside VMware). Unfortunately it was only myself and one other individual who said they were. I’m a P7 (Senior Staff), the other happened to be a VP. I was asked…
January is shaping up to be a great month for the Telco and Edge Cloud business unit. On top of new product releases such as Telco Cloud Automation 1.8 we have just release two new reference architectures. Since joining this BU it’s been a goal of mine to start with a clean slate on our RA’s and this time around…
Today I was working in my lab, which already has an external harbor instance and some TKG clusters. I wanted to deploy workload management on one of my vSphere clusters, the NSX-T version which uses the ESXi hosts as worker nodes. I’ve deployed this many times and it works great. Something I hadn’t done, nor could I find documented, was…
If you haven’t already I encourage you to check out William Lam’s Homelab build page where the community is sharing details on what they’re using to run their labs. This is a great resource for the community and it’s interesting to me, as a VMware employee, to see what’s being used/tested out there. So here’s what I currently have going…
For the past 4 years I’ve been working on the VMware Validated Designs. It has been an awesome experience and I absolutely love all the work I’ve done and the team I got to opportunity to work with. A couple months ago I got the opportunity to interview for a Senior Staff position, Senior Staff in VMware is a pretty…
