After deploying the NSX-T manager in my lab (I have a project coming up which will require me to automate some of the NSX-T configuration) I found that appliance had not installed properly. The services were not started correctly, no web UI and errors in the console about...
Of late I have been playing with Terraform and the vRA 8 provider. Although I have found quite a few bugs with the provider (I’ll log those soon) it certainly is a great start! I have captured a quick demo below where I configure settings on a brand...
VMware vRealize Automation 8 is a leap forwards and certainly a far cry from what we all knew as vRealize Automation 7.x. A new code base with a new look, if you have any familiarity with VMware vRealize Automation Cloud (formerly Cloud Automation Services) software as a service...
Like most I need ‘something’ of a home lab for learning, testing and developing solutions on. My requirements are pretty straightforward. I mainly need a simple vSphere setup with vRA, vRO and a Windows Domain Controller providing Active Directory, DNS and DHCP. I had been running various VMs...
I thought I would share two videos [editor: very basic, excuse the quality!] showing the use of Terraform to manipulate vSphere infrastructure. I recommend watching both videos ‘full screen’ for best effect [editor: and with popcorn if you have any, preferably sweet] Video1 – vSphere Infrastructure...
Summary This tutorial will show you how to apply one or more licenses to vCenter through the use of Terraform. This can be expanded on to create a module that can be used across multiple vSphere environments. Structure First of all, we are going to create a...
Summary In this blog post we will look at configuring Terraform Cloud to remotely host our Terraform state file. Terraform cloud has multiple levels of subscriptions available. The good news is, we only need the free one! This post assumes that you have some Terraform config already setup....
Summary This is part three of a series aimed at getting you going with Terraform in a vSphere environment. The series will assume you understand the concepts of IaC and Terraform, at a basic level. In part one, we setup Terraform and created a basic definition to create...
Summary This is part two of a series aimed at getting you going with Terraform in a vSphere environment. The series will assume you understand the concepts of IaC and Terraform, at a basic level. In part one, we setup Terraform and created a basic definition to create...
Summary This is part one of a series aimed at getting you going with Terraform in a vSphere environment. The series will assume you understand the concepts of IaC and Terraform, at a basic level. We will start by getting setup with Terraform, creating a basic definition to...
[editor comment: if you don’t know what Infrastructure As Code (IaC) is I recommend reading this post first] What Is Terraform Terraform is an open source tool that helps you provision, manage the state of and update, infrastructure. Terraform works by using Infrastructure as Code...