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I did it!, Yesterday I passed the exam. This was a challenging one, time almost ran out… there was some different topics that went to levels I was not expecting. I guess that is what you get when you do a Master level cert!
I will write my lessons learned so hopefully I can help someone trying to achieve this certification… keep you posted! Master Skill Unlocked!
Tanzu Application Service for Kubernetes brings the development experience of Tanzu Application Service (formerly called Pivotal Application Service, and before that Pivotal CloudFoundry) to the Kubernetes container orchestrator. It includes the most important features of Tanzu Application Service, such as cf push for buildpack-based apps, while running both the system components and the application instances as Kubernetes workloads.
TAS for Kubernetes is something I have been trying to test for a while. It moved from alpha version to beta on the 14th of April, so it has been open for testing for more than a month now.
Continue reading “Deploying Tanzu Application Service for Kubernetes on Kind”This week I had a call with a customer to discuss about how we can help them with their DevOps initiatives. I introduced to them the concepts of microservices, containers and Kubernetes, but at the end they where still struggling to understand how all the different technologies fit together.
I proposed to do a workshop and show them the whole process of placing an app in a container and running it in Kubernetes. But hey, that’s not they way the should be doing it a the end right? The whole idea of DevOps is to have an automated pipeline: to go from code, to container, to production automatically, using the concept of CI/CD – Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment.
Continue reading “CI/CD Pipeline with Jenkins running on Kubernetes and Deploying to Kubernetes.”VMware released vSphere 7.0 on April 2th, and following the commitment that Dell Technologies has to support on VxRail a new version of vSphere within 30 days of VMware GA… today, April 28th we have RTW (Released to Web) VxRail 7.0.
Continue reading “VxRail 7.0 General Available to the Web!”
As vSphere evolves in functionality in terms of lifecycle management, even internally at Dell, I see confusion sometimes regarding the value of VxRail.
I started to hear about this since late 2018, when vSphere Update Manager (VUM) with vSphere 6.7 U1 started to also update drivers/firmware for the storage controllers for selected vendors, and now with vSphere 7.0 and the new vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM) even the name makes things more confusing.
Good morning/afternoon/evening, these days have been hectic, for good or for bad during this pandemic situation, there’s a lot of work! Days full of Zoom calls are good to continue having that contact with our customers, but bad for blogging. 🙂
Nevertheless, I couldn’t wait to share my experience installing in my home lab Vmware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid, that is GA since last Thursday 4/9/2020. I have to admit that I did my first tries installing it manually without using Cluster API / Cluster API Provider vSphere (CAPI/CAPV), and I was unsuccessful; but using now the TKG CLI it’s a breeze.
Continue reading “I installed Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) this weekend!”In this post I’m going to explain how I configured my homelab to integrate a Kubernetes cluster with the Dell EMC Isilon CSI driver. I had to create a new cluster as the plugin has specific requirements:
Following up the series of homelab guides, I will explain how I setup my Kubernetes lab running from my laptop with VMware Workstation using Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS as base OS.
Continue reading “Deploy Kubernetes using kubeadm in Ubuntu 18.04 running on VMware Workstation”This is the first post of the series of guides on how to setup a vSphere nested lab in your computer.
One of the key parts, of the nested environment is the vCenter. I could install it on top of a nested ESXi host using the normal procedures, but this brings me to a chicken and egg situation, because what is a benefit for a datacenter running 24×7, having all the availability options applied to my vCenter, is not a good idea for my laptop based nested lab, because I will be turning off all the environment very often. That’s why for this kind of labs, having the vCenter (VCSA) running directly on top of my VMware Workstation is a good idea, but then you need do do some tricks to have it running correctly; you cannot use the regular installer.
Continue reading “Deploy VCSA 6.7 nested in VMware Workstation”
Last week I finally completed my first certification of the year, Cloud Native Foundation – Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA).
After VMworld last year and all the hype with Kubernetes I decided to started studying about this new kind of platform, and as usual I tried to guide my training with a goal in mind, in this case CKA seemed like the best goal to seek. It is also a pre-requisite for the new VMware Cloud Native Master Specialist certification that seemed interesting.
Continue reading “Kubernetes Certified Administrator – CKA”
