automation

  • SDDC.Lab v6 Released

    Slow and steady. That’s how I would describe the pace and progress around making SDDC.Lab version 6 the new default and recommended version of the project. If you’re not familiar with the SDDC.Lab project, it’s a collection of Ansible Playbooks that… Continue reading

    SDDC.Lab v6 Released

  • SDDC.Lab v5 Released

    Finishing touches and testing is completed. We’re proud to announce that we’ve just released SDDC.Lab Version 5! For those of you that are not familiar with the SDDC.Lab project, it’s a collection of Ansible Playbooks that perform fully automated deployments… Continue reading

  • SDDC.Lab v3

    Last week we released version 3 of the SDDC.Lab project. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the project, it’s a set of Ansible scripts (Playbooks) that perform automated deployments of nested VMware SDDCs. An hour after you issue… Continue reading

  • Quick Tip – Ansible Module “nsxt_rest”

    There are Ansible modules for configuring most of the NSX-T platform components, but for certain configuration tasks it might be quicker (or even necessary) to GET/POST/PUT/PATCH/DELETE to the NSX-T REST API directly. Now, in those situations you could use curl… Continue reading

  • Log Insight – Integration With Jenkins

    During some research I did for a customer on how to trigger an action based on an error event in the SDDC, I built myself a lab and ended up with a concept that seems interesting enough to write some… Continue reading

  • SDDC.Lab v2

    Back in April I published a post about my GitHub repository containing Ansible scripts that perform automated deployment of nested vSphere/NSX-T lab environments. A lot has happened during the last 5 months and now that we’re close to making version… Continue reading

  • Automate Ubuntu Server 20.04 Installation with Ansible

    And now something completely different. Recently, while working on a project, I had to come up with a way to automate Ubuntu Server 20.04 VM installations on vSphere. Utilizing Ubuntu’s new autoinstall method together with some Ansible code I managed… Continue reading