Field notes by Rutger Blom
Cloud infrastructure.
Built. Tested. Explained.
Practical notes on private cloud, networking, Kubernetes, and automation. From architectural decisions to the details that only show up in the lab.
When AI Agents Design and Build Infrastructure
Two agent roles. One VCF lab. A practical test of what happens when architecture and implementation meet real infrastructure constraints.
Follow your curiosity.
Explore by topic
A few good starting points.
Selected reading
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Think beyond deployment
Owning the Platform on VCF 9
The responsibilities and decisions that come with owning a private cloud platform.
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Build a repeatable foundation
Building the Foundation for a VCF Automation All Apps Landing Zone with Terraform
A hands-on starting point for a VCF Automation landing zone with Terraform.
03
Follow the network
Testing the VCF 9.1 Distributed Connection Model with BGP EVPN and VXLAN
Explore the distributed connection model through a focused lab experiment.
Fresh from the lab.
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NSX-T Distributed Firewall Threshold Monitoring
Read article ↗: NSX-T Distributed Firewall Threshold MonitoringLike any other firewall the NSX-T Distributed Firewall (DFW) consumes memory and CPU. Unlike other firewalls the DFW’s resource consumption is distributed, taking place on the…
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Locking NSX-T Firewall Policies
Read article ↗: Locking NSX-T Firewall PoliciesAfter receiving a couple questions about the NSX-T firewall policy locking feature, I decided to write a short blog post about it. The purpose of locking…
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Tier-1 Failure Domain
Read article ↗: Tier-1 Failure DomainWith every new release of NSX-T interesting features are added to the platform. Take failure domain for example. Introduced in version 2.5, failure domain adds another…
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Bulk Create NSX-T Segments Using A Postman Data File
Read article ↗: Bulk Create NSX-T Segments Using A Postman Data FileImagine this, you’ve been tasked with implementing micro-segmentation in your vSphere environment. You just deployed and configured NSX-T and the next step is to migrate VMs…
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Deploying NSX-T in a Stretched Cluster – Part 2
Read article ↗: Deploying NSX-T in a Stretched Cluster – Part 2Welcome back! I’m in the process of setting up NSX-T in a stretched cluster environment. In part 1 I deployed the NSX manager cluster and configured…
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Deploying NSX-T in a Stretched Cluster – Part 1
Read article ↗: Deploying NSX-T in a Stretched Cluster – Part 1A stretched cluster architecture facilitates for higher levels of availability and things like inter-site load balancing. It’s a common multisite solution and also part of VMware’s…