Last week VMware announced a huge set of product releases, focusing on VMware Tanzu, vSphere 7.0 with Kubernetes inside, and VMware Cloud Foundation 4.0 A large part of the Tanzu product offering involves products and services that came with the acquisition of Pivotal. One of the Tools that VMware has inherited from the Pivotal ecosystem,
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Fresh Job, fresh Laptop, and some fresh (and some old) learning to do. Going for the VCAP-DCV certification again, I needed a minimal lab environment inside VMware Workstation. The VCSA demands forward and reverse DNS resolving, and in the previous 'flufflab/flufflap', I had used BIND running in Ubuntu for this purpose. (and before that, I
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I am very proud and grateful to again be allowed to speak at the largest VMware user conference in the world. With 100 sessions, it really is turning into a small European mini-VMworld. The 2019 NLVMUG will take place on Thursday 21st of March, in a new location: 'De Fabrique', Utrecht For the last 3
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Full Stack Journey tells personal stories about the ongoing quest to become a full stack engineer: an IT pro who can move among multiple silos and work across multiple layers of the modern data center. Very cool to be asked, as I feel my personal IT transformation journey has only just begun. I admire Scott
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There are many ways to quickly provision docker hosts to cloud infrastructures. Dockers own native way is to use docker-machine. Being a vSphere admin I was of course interested in the VMware vSphere driver for docker-machine. The starting resources for this are: https://docs.docker.com/machine/drivers/vsphere/ https://blogs.vmware.com/cloudnative/how-to-use-docker-machine-in-conjunction-with-vsphere-driver/ While I got this working, one of the issues I struggled
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