Migrating from Ingress to Gateway API

It’s been a little while since I last published anything on my personal website but I have been creating quite a lot of content over on isovalent.com and posting a lot of Cilium updates on LinkedIn. Most of the content over there is long-form and there is a little feature I discovered this morning that […]

Consume the HashiCorp Cloud Platform APIs with Go

In my previous post, I had a first look at HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) Packer. At the end of the post, I suggested that the value of HCP Packer will be multiplied when integrated in an API-driven architecture. The examples I used were: vulnerability is detected on an image → API-driven process to check which […]

Fling Update: EasyAvi v2.0

Since we launched our EasyAvi Fling (formally known as Easy Deploy for NSX Advanced Load Balancing), we’ve had a lot of feedback from external and internal users. Most of the feedback was very positive on the tool but some users also ran into a number of minor bugs or missing features. The workflow could also […]

Terraform NSX-T in VMC – NSX Manager Private IP support

I recently had a requirement where a customer needed to access the VMware Cloud on AWS NSX-T manager directly. By default, any APIs calls relating to Network and Security on VMC on AWS have to be targeted to the NSX-T Reverse Proxy and not directly to the NSX-T platform. The Reverse Proxy is public-facing and […]

Extending Terraform – A Deep Dive

As I was becoming familiar with Terraform and all the clouds it could automate, I started to realize there were things it couldn’t interact with. Even within VMware, while we have a number of providers for services and products like NSX-T, vSphere, VMware Cloud, vCloud Director or vRealize Automation, there are still many products that […]

New Fling: Easy Deploy for NSX Load Balancing a.k.a EasyAvi

When customers start using cloud infrastructure, there are five key networking components they want to replicate within their virtual cloud environment: Router Switch Firewall VPN Load-Balancer Out-of-the-box, VMware Cloud on AWS gives you the first four components but the Load-Balancing was somehow lacking. Yes, we could use virtual appliances from vendors like F5. Yes, we […]

Mini-post: Dev_overrides Terraform Block

I have blogged in the past about the various options you can use a ‘custom’ Terraform provider – that is to say, a private or experimental provider not hosted on the Terraform Registry. There are many ways to achieve this but in the latest 0.14 Terraform version, there is a great option that makes it […]

Running Python and Terraform against a simulated vCenter environment with vcsim

As if I needed more ideas for my blog, William Lam challenged me to test a nice little tool he had just blogged about. The blog was about leveraging a cool tool – vcsim – that records an existing vCenter inventory, restores a fake version of it and lets you interact with this simulated vCenter […]