Paul Bryant If you are just learning AWS or have been an active user for a while, there comes a time when one must group users together for ease of management. Below you will find the quick steps to create a new user group and assign permissions. Navigate to IAM > Access management > groups > create … Read more
Have you ever found yourself in a position where you never saved your license key in windows 10 and needed it? It just happened to me recently so here is a quick and easy way to accomplish. Click on the windows key CmdRight click on Command Prompt and select run as administrator $ wmic path … Read more
In the previous article we covered how to deploy an app using Docker Compose. In this article we will expand upon that and push our files to a GitHub Repo and connect the Repo to Travis CI for continual testing. Pre-reqs:Create a repository in Github – my example is docker-inferno Also, if you have not … Read more
I wasn’t expecting to get so in-depth into namespaces but I had another question come up. What if you have multiple namespaces in your environment and you wanted to see them all. Also, what if you were trying to find a particular pod in an unknown namespace. My previous namespace articles:https://digitalthoughtdisruption.com/2020/10/05/how-to-switch-between-namespaces-in-kubernetes/https://digitalthoughtdisruption.com/2020/10/02/kubernetes-create-namespace-with-default-quotas/https://digitalthoughtdisruption.com/2020/10/01/kubernetes-create-new-namespace-with-quotas/ How to see all … Read more
In my previous two articles I demonstrated how to create new namespaces with quotas. However, someone asked is it possible to switch to the new namespace instead of always being in the default namespace. Yes, yes you can. My previous two articles: As you can see when I issue the get pods commands it returns … Read more
Yesterday I posted a blog article around how to create a new namespace for a new deployment and apply quotas. However, I immediately got several requests around is there an easier way to do this or apply quotas at the namespace level for all future pod creations. Personal best practice; I like creating a yaml … Read more
There are times when projects and team members accessing the projects grow. In order to keep these environments isolated we incorporate namespaces and to ensure these projects don’t exceed their resource limits we can impose quotas. In this article I will provide a couple definitions followed by a two-step process. In step 1, I will … Read more
At VMworld 2020 a new solution called Edge Network Intelligence from the Nyansa acquisition has been announced. One thing you have to appreciate about VMware is they will acquire a company to add a missing feature to their portfolio. The VeloCloud acquisition bringing SD-WAN to VMware was a huge piece to add to the edge … Read more
In an effort to continue to give you deeper visibility into your environment, vRNI has some great updates being released at VMworld. vRNI has always been a great end to end tool but now with assurance and verification giving you the ability to perform intent verification, with network wide visibility, and proactive operations based on … Read more
It is hard to believe that NSX-T is now three years old and what an incredible three years has it been. Being a former global enterprise architect for a couple companies that deployed NSX-T, I have had the privilege of watching this solution grow. Every year there feels like there is a new acquisition or … Read more
Back in the day security inside a datacenter was a lot simpler. You had workloads running onprem and inside the network they were “secure” and you put a firewall on the parameter to keep threats out. However, with applications living everywhere from traditional infrastructure, private clouds, hybrid clouds, public clouds, and on the edge it … Read more
It is hard to believe it has been four years since VMware announced VMware Cloud on AWS. In the past four years there have been massive improvements to this offering by VMware and AWS. At VMworld 2020 new features and roadmaps are being announced. Below you will find a brief overview of what VMConAWS is … Read more
Over the last four years the partnership between VMware and Dell Technologies has allowed for some incredible integrations into the Dell portfolio. The flagship of this partnership VxRail has evolved into the new backbone infrastructure component of the modern datacenter. That is why VMware Cloud on Dell is a huge step forward into towards the … Read more
Earlier this year VMware acquired Datrium and from Datrium comes a new DRaaS offering. DR holds a special place in my heart because when I was at global enterprise companies, the annual if not quarterly DR tests were my responsibility. DR is not a sexy topic to be having in meetings and rarely do people … Read more
At VMworld 2020 the new vRealize AI Cloud was announced. This is a huge step forward for VMware to bring AI into the fold to help optimize customer environments. The ability to create a digital copy of your environment and run ML against the copy in hundreds of scenarios is a game changer for VMware. … Read more
At VMworld they announced the new vRealize Cloud Universal suite of products. This new flexible licensing model merging both onprem and SaaS offerings is a smart move for VMware. VMware is acknowledging that not everyone is 100% cloud yet and by allowing them a single license to manage both the onprem and cloud was the … Read more
As we continue to dig deeper and build off each article, I wanted to mimic a Test/Dev workflow leveraging Docker. Below we will create an image and use Docker Compose to deploy the application in our Dev Environment. In part 2. we will take the results of this blog and send to Travis CI for … Read more
In this article as we begin to progress forward with deploying containers I wanted to build on previous articles. In this article we will create a package.json and server.js file, create a Dockerfile and see if our web app works. Now let’s create a directory for our project: $ mkdir <name_of_project>$ cd <DIR> Deploy web … Read more
I think Docker has the best explination of port mapping, “By default, when you create a container, it does not publish any of its ports to the outside world. To make a port available to services outside of Docker, or to Docker containers which are not connected to the container’s network, use the –publish or … Read more
Now that I have my new 7.0 vCenter stood up in my solution center I figured it was time to add in the datacenter and my management cluster. Since I’m playing around in 7.0 I thought I would give the cluster quickstart method a try. Step by step process Right click on the vCenter name … Read more
