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    • Getting Started with the vRealize Automation REST API

      calendar Jun 3, 2022 · 17 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 · 16 min read · vmware linux chromeos homelab tailscale photon vpn  ·
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      ESXi Arm Edition on the Quartz64 SBC

      Up until this point, my homelab has consisted of just a single Intel NUC9 ESXi host running a bunch of VMs. It's served me well but lately I've been thinking that it would be good to have an additional host for some of my workloads. In particular, I'd like to have a Tailscale node on my home network which isn't hosted …


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    • Active Directory authentication in Tanzu Community Edition

      calendar Mar 6, 2022 · 13 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 · 13 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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    • VMware Tanzu Community Edition Kubernetes Platform in a Homelab

      calendar Jan 12, 2022 · 23 min read · vmware linux kubernetes docker containers tanzu homelab  ·
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      VMware Tanzu Community Edition Kubernetes Platform in a Homelab

      Back in October, VMware announced Tanzu Community Edition as way to provide "a full-featured, easy-to-manage Kubernetes platform that’s perfect for users and learners alike." TCE bundles a bunch of open-source components together in a modular, "batteries included but swappable" way: I've been …


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    • Fixing 403 error on SaltStack Config 8.6 integrated with vRA and vIDM

      calendar Nov 5, 2021 · 4 min read · vmware vra lcm salt openssl certs  ·
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      Fixing 403 error on SaltStack Config 8.6 integrated with vRA and vIDM

      I've been wanting to learn a bit more about SaltStack Config so I recently deployed SSC 8.6 to my environment (using vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager to do so as described here). I selected the option to integrate with my pre-existing vRA and vIDM instances so that I wouldn't have to manage authentication directly …


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    • Run scripts in guest OS with vRA ABX Actions

      calendar Sep 3, 2021  · edit Sep 20, 2021 · 14 min read · vra abx powershell vmware  ·
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      Run scripts in guest OS with vRA ABX Actions

      Thus far in my vRealize Automation project, I've primarily been handing the payload over to vRealize Orchestrator to do the heavy lifting on the back end. This approach works really well for complex multi-part workflows (like when generating unique hostnames), but it may be overkill for more linear tasks (such as just …


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    • Creating static records in Microsoft DNS from vRealize Automation

      calendar Aug 13, 2021  · edit Jan 18, 2022 · 11 min read · vmware vra vro javascript powershell automation  ·
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      Creating static records in Microsoft DNS from vRealize Automation

      One of the requirements for my vRA deployments is the ability to automatically create a static A records for non-domain-joined systems so that users can connect without needing to know the IP address. The organization uses Microsoft DNS servers to provide resolution on the internal domain. At first glance, this …


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    • Joining VMs to Active Directory in site-specific OUs with vRA8

      calendar Jul 21, 2021 · 6 min read · vmware vra abx activedirectory automation windows  ·
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      Joining VMs to Active Directory in site-specific OUs with vRA8

      Connecting a deployed Windows VM to an Active Directory domain is pretty easy; just apply an appropriately-configured customization spec and vCenter will take care of it for you. Of course, you'll likely then need to move the newly-created computer object to the correct Organizational Unit so that it gets all the right …


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    • Adding VM Notes and Custom Attributes with vRA8

      calendar Jun 1, 2021 · 4 min read · vmware vra vro javascript  ·
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      Adding VM Notes and Custom Attributes with vRA8

      In past posts, I started by creating a basic deployment infrastructure in Cloud Assembly and using tags to group those resources. I then wrote an integration to let vRA8 use phpIPAM for static address assignments. I implemented a vRO workflow for generating unique VM names which fit an organization's established naming …


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    • AdGuard Home in Docker on Photon OS

      calendar May 27, 2021 · 6 min read · docker vmware containers networking security  ·
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      AdGuard Home in Docker on Photon OS

      I was recently introduced to AdGuard Home by way of its very slick Home Assistant Add-On. Compared to the relatively-complicated Pi-hole setup that I had implemented several months back, AdGuard Home was much simpler to deploy (particularly since I basically just had to click the "Install" button from the …


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