Fixed Network Segment vs Flexible Network Segment in NSX-T

This post will cover some caveats with regards to NSX-T segments and APIs. I will focus on VMware Cloud on AWS and Terraform but many of the comments will also apply to standard NSX-T. Let’s go through a concrete example. Creating a Network Segment with Terraform Most of the Terraform for NSX-T examples I have […]

Terraform for VMware SD-WAN by VeloCloud

My favourite tech trends of the past 5-10 years would probably be (in no particular order): Serverless & Function-As-A-Service Infrastructure-As-Code Software-Defined WAN So when my buddy Antoine told me he had written his own custom Terraform provider with VMware SD-WAN (by VeloCloud), I had to try out: not only it combines some of my favourite […]

Scale Testing with the Terraform count, for_each and dynamic arguments

I recently came across a requirement to make some scale tests on my VMware environment. I had to validate whether a limit was a hard limit (literally, the system prevents you from going above) or a soft limit (you can go above but it’s not recommended and you’re no longer supported). Given that the limit […]

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 […]