cloudmaniac.net - Romain Decker

VMworld 2017 EMEA is already finished for some time, but I wanted to take a moment to thank the vBrownbag team for the opportunity to present a 12 minutes session on NSX API, Automation and Unicorns. Although the format is quite short, it was a great and rewarding experience! For the little story, I initially planned for a 30 minutes session when I submitted my abstract (below)…due to logistic and timing reasons, I ended up with a 12 minutes session: ...

NSX-T 2.0 was released a couple of weeks ago, and among the new features in the release notes, one caught my attention: **RBAC and vIDM integration ** With this release, there are six roles for RBAC. Users can be assigned any of the six roles. NSX is also integrated with VMware Identity Manager to provide a unified user information for all VMware products. NSX-T have two built-in users: admin and audit. ...

There are (too?) many options to run a Kubernetes cluster, whether in a hosted fashion (Kubernetes-as-a-Service) with services such as Google Container Enginer (GKE) or the brand new Pivotal Container Service (PKS), but also by deploying turnkey or custom solutions. But what if you want to start quickly for lab / education purposes? Or if you want quickly verify something or test a CLI? Here comes Minikube! Minikube creates a local, single-node Kubernetes cluster for development and testing. ...

You have some spare time? Say no more, you should download the NSX books below for free, and tell your partner that she/he will see you again in 30 hours. :) It’s not one, but 4 NSX books representing over 550 pages of content that are available for free: NSX Micro-segmentation Day 1 (this one was released in February 2017) NSX Micro-segmentation Day 2 Operationalizing VMware NSX Automating NSX for vSphere with PowerNSX ...

The 2.0 version of NSX-T was released yesterday (September, 7th 2017). \o/ NSX-T is focused on emerging application frameworks and architectures that have heterogeneous endpoints and technology stacks. In addition to vSphere hypervisors, these environments include other hypervisors such as KVM, containers, and bare metal. What’s New in NSX-T 2.0? NSX-T 2.0 introduces a new platform architecture that meets customer needs for flexible, scalable, and agile network and security infrastructure. As developers embrace new technologies like containers, and the percentage of workloads running in public clouds increases, network virtualization must expand to offer a full range of networking and security services, natively, in these environments. ...