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 […]

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 […]

HashiCorp Terraform for vSphere – update for TF 0.12 and later

HashiCorp Terraform 0.12 was released back in May 2019 but most of my work with TF was using v0.11 or earlier. Some viewers of my previous post let me know they had some issues with the previous template configuration I had provided so here is an updated and validated version with 0.12. This post will […]

Introducing HashiCorp Terraform Provider for NSX-T Policy Manager and VMware Cloud on AWS

Last update on 12th January 2021: Added a comment about a new option “nsxt_policy_predefined_gateway_policy” that removes the requirement to run “terraform import”. Previous update on 2nd September 2020: Terraform NSX-T Policy provider is automatically downloaded when running “terraform init” (no need to compile it – read further below for more details). This blog post will […]

Introducing the HashiCorp Terraform Provider for VMware Cloud on AWS

Last updated on 2nd September 2020: Terraform VMC provider is automatically downloaded when running “terraform init” (no need to compile it – read further below for more details). Here is a feature I had been hoping to see for for a long time – a Terraform provider to spin up VMware Cloud on AWS resources. […]

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 […]