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Delivering Self-Service Private Cloud on VMware Cloud Foundation
Delivering Self-Service Private Cloud with VCF: EPISODE 1This video is the first in a series of videos about delivering self-service private cloud with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). The video series is hosted by Satya Shrestha, a Senior Staff...
How do I configure a site-to-site VPN to between AWS VPN and Openswan Instance
I want to connect to my Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) from my on-premises. How can I configure Openswan for this purpose?
Kubernetes In and On VMware Cloud Foundation
K8s In and On VCF: EPISODE 1 This video is the first in a series of videos about Kubernetes In and On VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). The video series is hosted by Satya Shrestha, a Senior Staff Executive Solutions Architect at VMware, and features...
Integrate Azure Files with Azure VMware Solution
Azure VMware Solution is a VMware validated solution with on-going validation and testing of enhancements and upgrades. Microsoft manages and maintains private cloud infrastructure and software. It allows customers to focus on developing and...
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to deploy Managed EKS Cluster and Node Group on AWS – Part 1
Hey fellow developers 👋, we know that Kubernetes is being adopted by many organisations worldwide in an attempt to simplify orchestration and management of container based applications. AWS has its own version of Kubernetes called EKS where we have...
5 Questions to Think About When Reviewing your Backup and Data Management Strategy …
The following list of questions is not exhaustive however, I find them to be the most relevant when discussing the topic of backup and data management with organizations that are evaluating their existing backup strategy : 1. Where does your...
Things that you should know about DNS
In this article I will explain you things that you should know about DNS. We think we all know what DNS is and how it works, but we get sloppy at times. So, I decided to dig deep into DNS. I decided to write what I learned. I may not be able to...
WINDOWS SERVER 2019: A STEP-BY-STEP TUTORIAL ON SYSTEM CENTER CONFIGURATION MANAGER (SCCM) WITH PRACTICAL EXAMPLE – PART 2
In the previous article, we looked at installing Windows Server 2019 in a virtual box environment. In this article, we will be configuring Active Directory, DNS AND DHCP for System Center Configuration manager (SCCM). Active Directory (AD) is a...
Creating Cloud to Cloud Policy Based IPSEC VPN between two SDDC on VMware Cloud on AWS
VPN is a basic networking construct when it comes to connecting multiple sites privately. Be it a private network connection from one on-premise site to another on-prem site, or a connection from an on-prem site to VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC (or vice versa), or even to establish private connections between VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC to another VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC.
Why go SaaS for your Backup and Recovery Solution ?
Being in the IT industry over the last 19 years, I have seen and worked with a fair share of backup and disaster recovery solutions over the years. Life has not always been kind to the System Admins that begrudgingly shoulder the responsibility of...
What to do when you can’t chmod chmod?
When you cannot chmod chmod? What to do? This might help to re-instate permission back. Here are following techniques where you can use chmod to change permission when chmod itself is not executable. Using rsync: The first technique is to use rsync...
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to deploy Managed EKS Cluster and Node Group on AWS – Part 2
Hi friends 👋, let's continue building our EKS environment by deploying managed EKS Node Groups in AWS. Continuing on from where we left before in Part 1 , we will now use a Cloudformation template to deploy EKS Addons ( CNI plugin ) and then a...
Load Balancing Azure VMware Solution workloads with Azure Application Gateway
Brief Introduction to Azure VMware SolutionWith Azure VMware Solution (AVS), now available globally in Microsoft Azure as a native Azure Cloud offering from Microsoft, customers around the globe can enjoy the same world class industry leading...
VPC Ingress Routing
The VPC incoming network traffic would have to be forwarded to on-premises appliance or firewall in order to inspect the traffic and routed back to VPC which is not an ideal solution, it adds latency and complexity.
Future of Technologies: Blockchain
"Everything will be tokenized and connected by blockchain one day" - Fred Ehrsam Blockchain was invented by group of people using the name Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008 to serve as the public transaction ledger of the crypto currency Bitcoin.What really...
Saltstack
Saltstack Introduction: Salt is a Python-based open-source remote execution framework used for: Configuration management Automation Provisioning Orchestration Salt uses the master-client model in which a master issues commands to a client and the...
Encrypting Systems Manager Sessions
I recently discovered that we can encrypt ec2 sessions launched via AWS Systems Manager. I figured it needs a few things in place to make it happen, A KMS key to be used for encrypting sessions with the following policy attached to it. Refrence...
Digging deep into dig command
DIG stands for Domain Information Groper. As the name suggests it is used to grab information from a DNS server. It is one of the most powerful yet most underrated utility. Sometimes we get overwhelmed by all the information that is shown and...
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Delivering Self-Service Private Cloud on VMware Cloud Foundation
How do I configure a site-to-site VPN to between AWS VPN and Openswan Instance
Kubernetes In and On VMware Cloud Foundation
Integrate Azure Files with Azure VMware Solution
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to deploy Managed EKS Cluster and Node Group on AWS – Part 1
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Delivering Self-Service Private Cloud on VMware Cloud Foundation
Delivering Self-Service Private Cloud with VCF: EPISODE 1This video is the first in a series of videos about delivering self-service private cloud with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). The video series is hosted by Satya Shrestha, a Senior Staff...
How do I configure a site-to-site VPN to between AWS VPN and Openswan Instance
What is Open Swan?Openswan has been the de-facto Virtual Private Network software for the Linux community since 2005. If you are running Fedora, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Debian (Wheezy), Gentoo, or many others, it is already included in your distribution!...
Kubernetes In and On VMware Cloud Foundation
K8s In and On VCF: EPISODE 1 This video is the first in a series of videos about Kubernetes In and On VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). The video series is hosted by Satya Shrestha, a Senior Staff Executive Solutions Architect at VMware, and features...
Integrate Azure Files with Azure VMware Solution
Azure VMware Solution is a VMware validated solution with on-going validation and testing of enhancements and upgrades. Microsoft manages and maintains private cloud infrastructure and software. It allows customers to focus on developing and...
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to deploy Managed EKS Cluster and Node Group on AWS – Part 1
Hey fellow developers 👋, we know that Kubernetes is being adopted by many organisations worldwide in an attempt to simplify orchestration and management of container based applications. AWS has its own version of Kubernetes called EKS where we have...
5 Questions to Think About When Reviewing your Backup and Data Management Strategy …
The following list of questions is not exhaustive however, I find them to be the most relevant when discussing the topic of backup and data management with organizations that are evaluating their existing backup strategy : 1. Where does your...
Things that you should know about DNS
In this article I will explain you things that you should know about DNS. We think we all know what DNS is and how it works, but we get sloppy at times. So, I decided to dig deep into DNS. I decided to write what I learned. I may not be able to...
WINDOWS SERVER 2019: A STEP-BY-STEP TUTORIAL ON SYSTEM CENTER CONFIGURATION MANAGER (SCCM) WITH PRACTICAL EXAMPLE – PART 2
In the previous article, we looked at installing Windows Server 2019 in a virtual box environment. In this article, we will be configuring Active Directory, DNS AND DHCP for System Center Configuration manager (SCCM). Active Directory (AD) is a...
Creating Cloud to Cloud Policy Based IPSEC VPN between two SDDC on VMware Cloud on AWS
VPN is a basic networking construct when it comes to connecting multiple sites privately. Be it a private network connection from one on-premise site to another on-prem site, or a connection from an on-prem site to VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC (or vice...
Why go SaaS for your Backup and Recovery Solution ?
Being in the IT industry over the last 19 years, I have seen and worked with a fair share of backup and disaster recovery solutions over the years. Life has not always been kind to the System Admins that begrudgingly shoulder the responsibility of...
What to do when you can’t chmod chmod?
When you cannot chmod chmod? What to do? This might help to re-instate permission back. Here are following techniques where you can use chmod to change permission when chmod itself is not executable. Using rsync: The first technique is to use rsync...
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to deploy Managed EKS Cluster and Node Group on AWS – Part 2
Hi friends 👋, let's continue building our EKS environment by deploying managed EKS Node Groups in AWS. Continuing on from where we left before in Part 1 , we will now use a Cloudformation template to deploy EKS Addons ( CNI plugin ) and then a...
Load Balancing Azure VMware Solution workloads with Azure Application Gateway
Brief Introduction to Azure VMware SolutionWith Azure VMware Solution (AVS), now available globally in Microsoft Azure as a native Azure Cloud offering from Microsoft, customers around the globe can enjoy the same world class industry leading...
VPC Ingress Routing
The VPC incoming network traffic would have to be forwarded to on-premises appliance or firewall in order to inspect the traffic and routed back to VPC which is not an ideal solution, it adds latency and complexity. A route table is associated with...
Future of Technologies: Blockchain
"Everything will be tokenized and connected by blockchain one day" - Fred Ehrsam Blockchain was invented by group of people using the name Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008 to serve as the public transaction ledger of the crypto currency Bitcoin.What really...
Saltstack
Saltstack Introduction: Salt is a Python-based open-source remote execution framework used for: Configuration management Automation Provisioning Orchestration Salt uses the master-client model in which a master issues commands to a client and the...
Encrypting Systems Manager Sessions
I recently discovered that we can encrypt ec2 sessions launched via AWS Systems Manager. I figured it needs a few things in place to make it happen, A KMS key to be used for encrypting sessions with the following policy attached to it. Refrence...
Digging deep into dig command
DIG stands for Domain Information Groper. As the name suggests it is used to grab information from a DNS server. It is one of the most powerful yet most underrated utility. Sometimes we get overwhelmed by all the information that is shown and...
Recent Posts
- Delivering Self-Service Private Cloud on VMware Cloud Foundation
- How do I configure a site-to-site VPN to between AWS VPN and Openswan Instance
- Kubernetes In and On VMware Cloud Foundation
- Integrate Azure Files with Azure VMware Solution
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to deploy Managed EKS Cluster and Node Group on AWS – Part 1
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