NSX-T L2VPN with APIs and Python

I always like a coding challenge so when my colleague Itonaga-san asked on an internal Slack channel how to create a NSX L2VPN using the APIs, that gave me an opportunity to help a colleague and get coding! My first question though was – why? The response was that a customer in Japan was trying […]

Mini-post: vRealize Network Insight and HCX Integration Fling

This is a short follow-up to a previous post I wrote about the cool integrations between vRNI and VMC. Martijn recently put together a great little Fling that enables customers to synchronize their group of VMs created by vRNI with HCX mobility groups. Let’s have a look at it in more details: HCX is our […]

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 […]

Reflections on 2020 and goals for 2021

As 2020 was finishing, I looked back at my initial New Year resolutions: Obviously, my first two ‘eco-conscious’ resolutions became quickly irrelevant as COVID disrupted our lives, grounded flights and lockdowns prevented us to drive anywhere. Anyway, I did switch to an electric vehicle (I’d highly recommend it if you can handle the restrictions that […]

VMware-As-Code – The Customer Story

Thanks to Josef Karasiak, Kjell Perman, Henrik Leion, Sami Suro, Sebastian Ramirez and Robert Gustafsson for their help with this project. And a reminder that all content on my personal blog represent my own and not those of my employer. I have been guilty since I started blogging of perhaps focusing too much on tech […]

Load-Balancing-As-A-Service with VMware NSX Load Balancer

After my recent HashiCorp webinar on VMware-As-Code, a VMware colleague that I hadn’t worked with before, got in touch. Nicolas works on the VMware NSX Advanced Load-Balancing team (formerly known as AVI) side and on top of sharing a name and a nationality, we both share a love of automation! We started working on a […]

Terraform Registry and Provider Requirements

This blog post would have saved me hours (yes, literally hours) of work if a feature had been documented a bit more clearly… I hope it will help readers save some time too! Let’s review first the challenges we sometimes come across with Terraform. One of the first actions before you deploy resources with Terraform […]

Terraform for vSphere – Content Library Support

One of the advantages of working with Open Source software is that, when you are confused by some of the products or when the documentation hasn’t been updated, you can literally go and check the code. I realized recently that support for vSphere Content Library had been added to the Terraform provider for vSphere but […]

VMworld 2020 – Deploy and Configure Your Entire VMware Cloud on AWS with Terraform [HCP1064]

Our VMworld 2020 session is now online! Click on the picture below to launch the session from the VMworld portal. The slides can be found here: The code can be found here: https://github.com/gchek/VMworld2020 Obviously, most of the content from the session will be similar to the one published in my session with HashiCorp here, however […]

First Look into… HashiCorp Sentinel and Policy-as-Code (Part 2)

This post is the follow-up to the introduction to Policy-As-Code and to Sentinel. In this post, we’ll look at how to write the actual Sentinel policies. In the previous post, we reviewed how we can use policy-as-code with Terraform to enforce specific policies. The example we used was to force the operator to deploy VMware […]