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Imperative vs Declarative IT

This seems to come up a lot in discussions so I wanted to provide my view on the differences. Imperative is focused on the steps required to meet an outcome. Declarative is focused on defining[…]

How to recover a manually deleted worker node in Enterprise PKS

One of the most powerful features of Enterprise PKS is its capability to be desired state management for Kubernetes clusters. This capability is provided in part by BOSH. A simple node failure like a kubelet[…]

Steam’s pivot from hardware to software

I used to be a huge PC gamer. For a solid portion of my life Steam has been the gaming platform for PC gamers. I personally have a small collection of 701 games on steam.[…]

Create a VRO action to list all VM’s with a specific security tag

I wanted to populate a VRA drop down with all VM’s who have a specific security tag. So I am off to creating a action. This particular action does require that you denote the uuid[…]

Create a VRO action to display a drop down of all VM names

Every so often I need to populate a drop down in VRA with a list of virtual machine names to allow the customer to select from the list. This is useful in things like my[…]

VRO code to remove a NSX security group from a VM

My previous post showed how to add a NSX security tag using VRO this one is similar but removes it: Parameters Attributes Scriptable task: Code for cut and paste: //name = ‘dev-214’; vms = VcPlugin.getAllVirtualMachines();[…]

VRO code to apply a NSX security tag

I recently created an environment that had a VRA XaaS to apply a security tag to individual virtual machines. I wanted to share the code I wrote to speed up your adoption. In this case[…]

What networks does PKS create inside each K8 cluster?

VRO – XML work

Sooner or later you are going to have to work with XML in Ochestrator. Orchestrator can be challenging with XML because it’s based upon E4X plugin not more current plugins. You can find some specific[…]

VRO Enable lockdown mode

I have been reading the VMware validated design documents of late. I cannot recommend them enough they are awesome documents. It’s really worth the deep read. I noticed one of the design choices is to[…]