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Terraform can describe parts of a VCF Automation 9.1 All Apps landing zone, but not the full model end to end. In this post I walk through the first layers of the landing zone foundation, including organization creation, identity provider configuration, quota, networking, content library and namespace consumption, while also calling out where the current…
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Self-service without guardrails is just delegated infrastructure access with a nicer interface. In this post I look at guardrails in the VCF Automation 9.1 All Apps model, and how organizations, quotas, namespaces, networking, policies, and extensibility work together to make private cloud consumption safer and more repeatable.
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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 perform fully automated deployments of nested VMware Software Defined Data Center environments called pods. Each…
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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 of nested VMware Software Defined Data Center Pods including solutions like vSphere, vSAN, and NSX.…
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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 the deploy command, a fully-fledged vSphere-NSX-T environment is at your disposal. Pretty cool. The diagram…
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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 or Postman or any of the other REST API clients out there, but if you…
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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 lines about on the blog. High-Level The diagram below illustrates the “solution” at a high-level:…
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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 2 the default branch, I thought it would be a good time to give you…
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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 to get something up and running. Decent enough to share it with you. Overview The…
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