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First-look: Automated K8s lifecycle with ClusterAPI

26/06/2019 by Myles Gray 1 Comment

This post is part of the Kubernetes on vSphere course.

Introduction K8s lifecycle is something people are still struggling with, despite amazing tools out there like kubeadm which take care of the K8s setup itself, we are still lacking something fundamental – they day-0 setup. Who/what actually creates the VMs and installs the packages on them so we can get to the stage that we […]

Filed Under: Architecture, Cloud Frameworks, Featured, Infrastructure, Kubernetes, Software, Storage, Virtualisation Tagged With: kubernetes, vmware, vsphere

Using cloud-init for VM templating on vSphere

09/06/2019 by Myles Gray 2 Comments

vSphere Events

This post is part of the Kubernetes on vSphere course.

This isn’t necessarily a follow-on from the other three blogs so far in this series, but more of an alternative to parts one and two. Following on from those I felt that the process could be much more automated, and less “ssh into every box and change things manually”. After all, the less changes we […]

Filed Under: Automation, Cloud Frameworks, Featured, Infrastructure, Kubernetes, Software, Virtualisation Tagged With: kubernetes, vmware, vsphere

Using the vSphere Cloud Provider for K8s to dynamically deploy volumes

08/02/2019 by Myles Gray 1 Comment

This post is part of the Kubernetes on vSphere course.

Using the VCP As of the last part in the series we have a fully up and running k8s cluster with the vSphere Cloud Provider installed! Let’s make sure it works and is provisioning storage for us by deploying a StorageClass and a test app. Prerequisites Tools I am using macOS, so will be using […]

Filed Under: Cloud Frameworks, Featured, Infrastructure, Kubernetes, Software, Virtualisation Tagged With: containers, esxi, helm, kubernetes, vmware, vsphere

Setting up K8s and the vSphere Cloud Provider using kubeadm

28/01/2019 by Myles Gray 1 Comment

This post is part of the Kubernetes on vSphere course.

Intro In the last installment we created an Ubuntu 18.04 LTS image to use to clone VMs from for spinning up our K8s nodes, we then cloned four VMs out, one as the master and three to be used as workers. This time we are going to step through installing all the necessary K8s components […]

Filed Under: Cloud Frameworks, Featured, Infrastructure, Kubernetes, Software, Virtualisation Tagged With: cloud provider, kubeadm, kubernetes, linux, vmware, vsphere

Creating an Ubuntu 18.04 LTS cloud image for cloning on VMware

27/01/2019 by Myles Gray 16 Comments

This post is part of the Kubernetes on vSphere course.

Intro I have been experimenting a lot over the past 18 months with containers and in particular, Kubernetes, and one of the core things I always seemed to get hung up on was part-zero – creating the VMs to actually run K8s. I wanted a CLI only way to build a VM template for the […]

Filed Under: Cloud Frameworks, Featured, Infrastructure, Kubernetes, Software, Virtualisation Tagged With: govc, govmomi, kubernetes, linux, powershell, templating, ubuntu, vmware, vsphere

vSAN SPBM and vCloud Director

02/12/2017 by Myles Gray 1 Comment

I had a question last week from Bozo Popovic during our EMEA field SE training session on vSAN operations relating to SPBM support for service providers that use vCloud Director in their environments. Next up Mr. @mylesagray giving a #vSAN operations overview to our EMEA field at the @vmwarevsan workshop this morning pic.twitter.com/48seQc8i7d — Cormac […]

Filed Under: Cloud Frameworks, Infrastructure, Storage, Virtualisation Tagged With: spbm, vcloud director, vmware, vsan

Migrating vSAN vmkernel ports to a new subnet

03/11/2017 by Myles Gray 1 Comment

After deploying a vSAN cluster, the need sometimes arises to make changes to its network configuration, such as migrating the vmkernel network of the cluster to a new subnet. This requirement may appear for example when changing the network in which the vSAN cluster is running, or even, in a more complex scenario such as […]

Filed Under: Infrastructure, Networks, Storage, Virtualisation Tagged With: esxi, vmware, vsan, vsphere

vCloud Director console proxy and UI on a single interface

20/08/2017 by Myles Gray 1 Comment

I was recently rebuilding part of my lab infrastructure, and as part of it, I wanted to migrate my vCD cells from two IPs each to a single IP (as this feature was added in vCD 8.10) for both the web UI and the console proxy. It simplifies provisioning, potential routing problems, and load-balancer configuration […]

Filed Under: Cloud Frameworks, Infrastructure, Networks, Virtualisation Tagged With: load-balancing, vcloud director, vmware

Removing orphaned IPs from NSX using REST API

19/08/2017 by Myles Gray Leave a Comment

I had a power outage recently that took out my entire lab in a very ungraceful manner – everything, well mostly everything, came back up without a hitch – but NSX was acting a bit weird, so I decided to redeploy the NSX Controllers. I removed all 3 controllers and tried redeploying but ended up […]

Filed Under: Infrastructure, Networks Tagged With: API, networking, nsx, vmware

Customer, Partner, Vendor.

18/07/2017 by Myles Gray 2 Comments

Over the last 9 months, a lot has happened in my life; I have a nice titanium plate in my shoulder now courtesy of a major car accident. I changed roles at Novosco from Infrastructure Engineer to Cloud Technologist – focusing more on R&D and emerging platforms, and I helped out Frank Denneman and Niels […]

Filed Under: Infrastructure, Personal, Storage, Virtualisation Tagged With: vexpert, vmware

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