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 […]

ESXi on Raspberry Pi – Tutorial

When I bought my Raspberry Pi 4 Model B back in February, I thought I would splash an extra $20 for the 4GB RAM option instead of the 2GB one (the 8GB wasn’t available at the time) as it gave me the option to run VMware ESXi on it, if/whenever it would become available. After […]

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 […]

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. […]