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Terraform UseCase Vending
Faced with the repetitive task of spinning up secure ‘Landing Zones’ for my Terraform projects and bootstrapping an initial Terraform codebase, I decided to create a vending machine for that. My...
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5 learnings on Platform Engineering
Over the past decade, I have had the opportunity to be involved in several platform developments. All were technology base-platforms in the broadest sense, but different in the details: highly...
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Terraform AzureRM Backend Automation
When I wrote the previous article, most of the configuration was a very unreliable powershell script. In this article I will show a Terraform project that covers the key aspects of my previous...
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Terraform AzureRM Backend
Terraform State and in particular Terraform Remote State is an essential but equally hated aspect of Terraform. In this post, I will share my design for a Terraform AzureRM Backend with a set of...
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Built with Hugo, Cloudflare and Love
As a regular reader of this blog you may have noticed, that within the last months, a lot of change happened. I got tired of maintaining a full-blown CMS, called WordPress, just to publish my blog...
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Terraform Development Pipeline
I have never been a software developer and never will be, but code is for me the natural way to deploy and change infrastructure for a decade now. Infrastructure automation can be the whole spectrum...
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Grafana Dashboard for vCloud Director
One of the points on my bucket list for 2018 was to learn more about Grafana. So I decided to create my own Grafana Dashboard for vCloud Director. Like my vCloud Director Tenant HTML Report should the...
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Using PowerShell to create a vCloud Director Tenant HTML Report
As we all know, VMware vCloud Director is a widely adopted IaaS platform for the service provider market. VMware vCloud Director offers a self-service web portal to manage your vApps, VMs, networks,...
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vCloud Director Dynamic Security Group with Tag
Within a past project I was working on a topic that was covered by Daniel Paluszek in his blog post Security Compliance – Pre-configure your vApp firewall rules inside vCloud Director using NSX DFW...
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PowerShell Module for vCloud Director NSX API
With vCloud Director 8.20 has VMware started to let the tenants and admins consume NSX function via the vCloud Director API endpoint. The NSX function in vCloud Director are only a subset of the native...
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Upload and Install ESXi Patch via PowerCLI
The Script I have created a few weeks ago is a little bit more than a simple Upload and Install ESXi Patch via PowerCLI. The Script uses for the installation of the Patch Bundle the VMware PowerCLI...
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vRealize Operations Manager - Datastore Overprovisioning
Overprovisioning is a huge topic if you need to run a efficient environment. Especial Storage Overprovisioning has a lot of positive but also a few negative aspects, if you not have a good monitoring...
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vRealize Operations Tenant App 2.0 for vCloud Director
Beside vRealize Operations Manager 7.0 has VMware also released the vRealize Operations Tenant App 2.0 and the vCloud Director Management Pack 5.0. These three releases form together with the NSX...
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Azure Automation with Ansible
Ansible with its huge community and broad platform support is one of the tools you should have a look at to address your cloud automation demands. Azure Automation with Ansible can address all layers...
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User-Centric On-Demand Self-Service
The NIST Definition of Cloud Computing highlights On-Demand Self-Service as one of the essential characteristics of the cloud model. The characteristics of the cloud model are defined independently of...
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Veeam Azure Object Storage Automation
During my prior blog post, I had the requirement to spin up a lot of Azure Object Storage Repositories. As is usually the case, this quickly led me to Veeam Azure Object Storage Automation. I am pretty...
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Veeam Backup target freedom of choice
The freedom of choice regarding Backup Repositories has always been a strength of Veeam Backup & Replication. With the V12 release, the Veeam Backup target freedom of choice becomes even greater....
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HPE Firmware Management for VMware ESXi - Server Profile Install Method
As described in my previous blog post, the firmware deployment method needs to be configured on two components. The OneView Server Profile Install Method and the HPE Smart Update Tools Install Mode....
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# Learning Platforms kasten.io Kubernetes Education KubeAcademy from VMware Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes learning # Documentation Kubernetes Docs Hello MiniKube # Blog etc. Kubernetes Blog...
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Veeam Backup Protection Levels
Within this blog post, I will talk about the different protection levels of your Veeam backups that you can achieve with different concepts and technologies. An important role is played by what...
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