Manage Your Entire VMware Infrastructure As Code with HashiCorp Terraform

The session I co-presented with Grant Orchard from HashiCorp is now online and can be found here: In the session, we walk through, with plenty of live demos, how to : Deploy AWS, VMware Cloud on AWS, NSX-T and vSphere infrastructure from code using Terraform (read more on Terraform for VMC, Terraform on NSX-T and […]

First Look into… HashiCorp Sentinel and Policy-as-Code (Part 1)

I recently came across a video from Kyle Ruddy (formerly at VMware, now at HashiCorp, Microsoft MVP and automation rockstar) where he was walking through a HashiCorp product I hadn’t yet played with: Sentinel. Naturally, I got curious and started to look into it. I find Anything-as-a-Code interesting and I liked the overall potential of […]

First look into…Terraform Cloud

In an upcoming webinar with Grant Orchard from HashiCorp, we will be building and managing VMware infrastructure through Terraform Cloud. It gave me an opportunity to test this platform and see how it can work in particular with the VMware portfolio. Update 28th September: the recording of the webinar is now online! Read more here. […]

Terraform for vSphere – OVA/OVF support

As I am gearing up for a VMworld session with Gilles Chekroun on Terraform and an upcoming webinar with HashiCorp’s Grant Orchard, I thought I’d publish a series of short posts on Terraform around some of the features and gotchas I have myself discovered over the past few months. First one: remote OVA/OVF support with […]

Automation with VMware Cloud on AWS and vRealize Automation ABX

Updated (14th August 2020): for more information on this project, read Vincent’s blog post here One of the most fascinating aspects of working for a company like VMware is the opportunity to work directly with the product teams who design and build the solutions I get to play with. But at the rate the company […]

Deep Dive on PowerCLI, NSX-T, Pester and VMware Cloud on AWS

This blog post will walk through how to use PowerCLI, Pester for VMware Cloud on AWS, NSX-T and vCenter. No prior knowledge of PowerCLI or PowerShell is required to read this blog. In recent weeks, I have had the opportunity to participate in the construction of the VMware Hands-On Labs as a Lab Captain. I […]

Fling Update: PyVMC 1.1 release (and a walkthrough through some Python code)

Since I released PyVMC (a Python-based client to manage VMware Cloud on AWS co-created with Matt Dreyer) on my blog and as a VMware Fling, I’ve seen a fair bit of interest from engineers that need to automate the configuration of their VMC SDDC or that need to configure a large amount of security rules. […]

Bursting to the Cloud with VMware Event Broker Appliance, AWS Lambda and VMware Cloud on AWS

I was doing some research on who came up with the term “Cloud Bursting” – essentially the ability to leverage resources in the Cloud when demand for an on-prem application exceeds current capacity – and unsurprisingly, I came across Jeff Barr’s blog post from 2008 (Jeff is the Chief Evangelist for AWS). The way Jeff […]

Data Analytics with VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront

About 3 years ago, VMware acquired a cloud-hosted monitoring and analytics platform named Wavefront. With Wavefront, you could send time-series data from anywhere – applications, containers, serverless platforms, etc… – and render charts and get some analytics and insights. Naturally, I got my hands on it as soon as I could and started playing with […]

Scheduled Cluster Auto-Scale with VMware Cloud on AWS and AWS Lambda

This post will walk through how to automatically add and remove hosts to your VMware cluster, by leveraging VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC, Python and AWS Lambda. While we have the very cool Elastic DRS feature that can scale up and down based on resource thresholds, EDRS is not clever enough (yet) to anticipate when […]