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  • Tailscale on VMware Photon OS

    calendar Dec 14, 2022  · edit Dec 15, 2022 · 2 min read · vmware linux wireguard networking security tailscale  ·
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    Tailscale on VMware Photon OS

    You might remember that I'm a pretty big fan of Tailscale, which makes it easy to connect your various devices together in a secure tailnet, or private network. Tailscale is super simple to set up on most platforms, but you'll need to install it manually if there isn't a prebuilt package for your system. Here's a …


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  • K8s on vSphere: Building a Kubernetes Node Template With Packer

    calendar Dec 10, 2022 · 31 min read · vmware linux shell automation kubernetes containers infrastructure-as-code packer  ·
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    K8s on vSphere: Building a Kubernetes Node Template With Packer

    I've been leveraging the open-source Tanzu Community Edition Kubernetes distribution for a little while now, both in my home lab and at work, so I was disappointed to learn that VMware was abandoning the project. TCE had been a pretty good fit for my needs, and now I needed to search for a replacement. VMware is …


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  • Upgrading a Standalone vSphere Host With esxcli

    calendar Oct 15, 2022 · 3 min read · vmware homelab vsphere  ·
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    You may have heard that there's a new vSphere release out in the wild - vSphere 8, which just reached Initial Availability this week. Upgrading the vCenter in my single-host homelab is a very straightforward task, and using the included Lifecycle Manager would make quick work of patching a cluster of hosts... but …


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  • Using the vSphere Diagnostic Tool Fling

    calendar Aug 28, 2022 · 7 min read · vmware vsphere python  ·
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    Using the vSphere Diagnostic Tool Fling

    VMware vCenter does wonders for abstracting away the layers of complexity involved in managing a large virtual infrastructure, but when something goes wrong it can be challenging to find exactly where the problem lies. And it can be even harder to proactively address potential issues before they occur. Fortunately …


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  • Removing and Recreating vCLS VMs

    calendar Jul 24, 2022  · edit Jul 25, 2022 · 3 min read · vmware vsphere homelab  ·
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    Removing and Recreating vCLS VMs

    Way back in 2020, VMware released vSphere 7 Update 1 and introduced the new vSphere Clustering Services (vCLS) to improve how cluster services like the Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) operate. vCLS deploys lightweight agent VMs directly on the cluster being managed, and those VMs provide a decoupled and …


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  • Gitea: Ultralight Self-Hosted Git Server

    calendar Jul 22, 2022  · edit Jan 19, 2023 · 15 min read · linux docker cloud tailscale  ·
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    Gitea: Ultralight Self-Hosted Git Server

    I recently started using Obsidian for keeping notes, tracking projects, and just generally organizing all the information that would otherwise pass into my brain and then fall out the other side. Unlike other similar solutions which operate entirely in The Cloud, Obsidian works with Markdown files stored in a local …


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  • Getting Started with the vRealize Automation REST API

    calendar Jun 3, 2022 · 19 min read · vmware vra javascript vro automation rest api  ·
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    Getting Started with the vRealize Automation REST API

    I've been doing a bit of work lately to make my vRealize Automation setup more flexible and dynamic and less dependent upon hardcoded values. To that end, I thought it was probably about time to learn how to interact with the vRA REST API. I wrote this post to share what I've learned and give a quick crash course on …


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  • ESXi ARM Edition on the Quartz64 SBC

    calendar Apr 23, 2022  · edit Dec 14, 2022 · 16 min read · vmware linux chromeos homelab tailscale photon vpn  ·
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    ESXi ARM Edition on the Quartz64 SBC

    ESXi-ARM Fling v1.10 Update On July 20, 2022, VMware released a major update for the ESXi-ARM Fling. Among other fixes and improvements, this version enables in-place ESXi upgrades and adds support for the Quartz64's on-board NIC. To update, I: Wrote the new ISO installer to another USB drive. Attached the installer …


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  • Download Web Folder Contents with Powershell (wget -r replacement)

    calendar Apr 19, 2022 · 1 min read · powershell windows  ·
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    We've been working lately to use HashiCorp Packer to standardize and automate our VM template builds, and we found a need to pull in all of the contents of a specific directory on an internal web server. This would be pretty simple for Linux systems using wget -r, but we needed to find another solution for our Windows …


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  • Active Directory authentication in Tanzu Community Edition

    calendar Mar 6, 2022 · 14 min read · vmware kubernetes tanzu activedirectory certs cluster containers  ·
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    Active Directory authentication in Tanzu Community Edition

    Not long ago, I deployed a Tanzu Community Edition Kubernetes cluster in my homelab, and then I fumbled through figuring out how to log into it from a different device than the one I'd used for deploying the cluster from the tanzu cli. That setup works great for playing with Kubernetes in my homelab but I'd love to do …


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  • Nessus Essentials on Tanzu Community Edition

    calendar Feb 7, 2022 · 4 min read · vmware kubernetes tanzu containers security  ·
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    Nessus Essentials on Tanzu Community Edition

    Now that VMware has released vCenter 7.0U3c to resolve the Log4Shell vulnerabilities I thought it might be fun to run a security scan against the upgraded VCSA in my homelab to see how it looks. Of course, I don't actually have a security scanner in that environment so I'll need to deploy one. I start off by heading to …


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  • Bulk Import vSphere dvPortGroups to phpIPAM

    calendar Feb 4, 2022 · 15 min read · vmware powercli python api phpipam  ·
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    Bulk Import vSphere dvPortGroups to phpIPAM

    I recently wrote about getting started with VMware's Tanzu Community Edition and deploying phpIPAM as my first real-world Kubernetes workload. Well I've spent much of my time since then working on a script which would help to populate my phpIPAM instance with a list of networks to monitor. Planning and Exporting The …


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  • Logging in to a Tanzu Community Edition Kubernetes Cluster from a new device

    calendar Feb 1, 2022 · 3 min read · vmware kubernetes tanzu  ·
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    Logging in to a Tanzu Community Edition Kubernetes Cluster from a new device

    When I set up my Tanzu Community Edition environment, I did so from a Linux VM since the containerized Linux environment on my Chromebook doesn't support the kind bootstrap cluster used for the deployment. But now that the Kubernetes cluster is up and running, I'd like to be able to connect to it directly without the …


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  • Enable Tanzu CLI Auto-Completion in bash and zsh

    calendar Feb 1, 2022 · 2 min read · vmware linux tanzu kubernetes shell  ·
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    Enable Tanzu CLI Auto-Completion in bash and zsh

    Lately I've been spending some time getting more familiar with VMware's Tanzu Community Edition Kubernetes distribution, but I'm still not quite familiar enough with the tanzu command line. If only there were a better way for me to discover the available commands for a given context and help me type them correctly... …


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  • Using PowerCLI to list Linux VMs and Datacenter Locations

    calendar Jan 13, 2022 · 2 min read · vmware powercli powershell  ·
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    Using PowerCLI to list Linux VMs and Datacenter Locations

    I recently needed to export a list of all the Linux VMs in a rather large vSphere environment spanning multiple vCenters (and the entire globe), and I wanted to include information about which virtual datacenter each VM lived in to make it easier to map VMs to their physical location. I've got a Connect-vCenters …


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  • Removing and Recreating vCLS VMs
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