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In this post I will show you how to quickly get up and running with Grafana Cloud Monitoring your Kubernetes Cluster and Demo app. This post is building off a previous post where we deployed a demo web store app on Kubernetes running on your laptop. While you can use Continue reading My First Grafana Cloud
In this guide I will walk you through configuring the vSphere Jenkins Plugin to deploy VM’s to VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC. This way you can run your CI/CD Pipelines in the cloud and on-prem.
In this guide I will show you how to configure Photon OS to start a container when the OS boots up. This way your container is running even if the OS gets powered off or rebooted. Or if you are running on vSphere and an HA event occurs.
In this guide I will walk you through a simple setup of Admiral using Photon OS as the container host. Admiral™ is a highly scalable and very lightweight Container Management platform for deploying and managing container based applications. It is designed to have a small footprint and boot extremely quickly. Continue reading Getting started with VMware Admiral Container Service on Photon OS
So you want to connect to the Docker instance on Photon OS remotly from another Docker client? In this guide I will walk you through a few short steps to configure Photon OS to enable the remote docker API. NOTE: This is not considered the secure method. If you want Continue reading How to enable Docker Remote API on Photon OS
If you have installed a local docker registry without signed SSL certificates, the docker daemon will need to be started in a way to allow connection in insecure mode. For details see this note from Docker. In this guide I will show you how to configure VMware Photon OS to Continue reading How to use PhotonOS with an insecure registry
In this guide I will walk you through installing and configuring the new Chef Plugin for vRealize Orchestrator. This allows vRO to automate common tasks in Chef as well as integrate with cloud automation solutions like vRealize Automation. The plug-in includes out of the box workflows for the most common Continue reading How to install and configure Chef Plugin for vRealize Orchestrator
As you may or may not know, in my previous life I was a vSphere Admin working for a large multinational company. My team supported a large vSphere environment with a wide range of application workloads. Many times we would encounter problems with the applications that required all of us Continue reading How to integrate vCenter Alarms with SocialCast – vCenter Appliance
It’s 2015 folks and let’s face it, everyone has a mobile device with e-mail. No one wants to have to login to a web portal to approve your request. That’s why I am here to show you how to configure vRA so you can approve requests from your e-mail.
So you got past the initial setup and install of vCAC 6. You have already provisioned several Windows or Linux blue prints and now you want to play with the advanced service designer. But wait? Where is the advanced services tab in vCAC? Humm, you have everything licensed correctly and Continue reading How to enable Advanced Service Designer in vCAC 6