How to monitor and track Twitter APIs with Python and AWS DynamoDB – Summer Experiment #1

This blog will walk through how to capture Tweets matching a certain hashtag and export them to an AWS DynamoDB via the Twitter APIs. This is the first of several silly and mostly pointless experiments I will post this summer. Next posts will look at using AWS IoT, AWS Lambda and VMware Cloud on AWS […]

Leverage vCenter Converter to migrate to VMware Cloud on AWS

This blog post will walk through leveraging vCenter converter with VMware Cloud on AWS. I’ve had multiple customers asking questions such as: How do I migrate my virtual machines to VMware Cloud on AWS when I don’t have access to vCenter? There are cases where customers have outsourced their infrastructure to a 3rd party and […]

Infrastructure-As-Code with HashiCorp Terraform, VMware and VMware Cloud on AWS

This blog post will walk through what HashiCorp Terraform is and how to set up Terraform with VMware, including a few examples with VMware Cloud on AWS. Terraform is another tool offered by HashiCorp (I covered Packer in a previous post). Packer provided the ability to create and manage virtual machines from a template written […]

Infrastructure-As-Code with HashiCorp Packer, VMware and VMware Cloud on AWS

This post will focus on using the Infrastructure-As-Code tool HashiCorp Packer and how it works with VMware and a concrete example with VMware Cloud on AWS. Kudos to Cody De Arkland for his excellent blog on this topic (Cody has so much good stuff on his blog). I also consulted this post, this post, the […]

AWS Transit VPC

This blog post will walk through the VPC, VPC Peering and Transit VPC. After Aarthi and I covered Transit VPC at a high-level on this AWS blog post, I thought I would provide expand on the architecture behind Transit VPC. VPC Recap Let’s start with a very quick recap of a VPC (Virtual Private Cloud). […]