Vault How to Configure AWS KMS for Vault Auto-Unseal Rather than manually unsealing Vault in the homelab every time updates are applied, it'd be preferable to have it auto-unseal using an AWS Key Management Server. This is how to setup the AWS part.
AutoUG Featured Introducing the Automation User Group Passionate about automation? Then this could be the user group community for you! The Automation User Group (AutoUG) is getting ready for its first event.
VMware Learning SaltStack: a Cloud Template for vRA Following VMware's acquisition of SaltStack, learn more about Salt. Try this vRA cloud template to deploy a simple Salt environment.
HashiCorp Preparing Vault for integration with vRA Before vRA / vRO can automate Vault and create high-entropy passwords for new workloads, Vault must be prepared. This post explains the steps taken.
vRA Featured Creating unique passwords in Vault for new vRA workloads Generate and secure unique complex passwords in HashiCorp Vault for new workloads provisioned by VMware vRealize Automation
General Reflecting on 5 years at VMware Five years ago this month I joined VMware. With this milestone reached I wanted to share some brief thoughts about my experiences to date and the future.
vExpert Integrating VMware Code Stream and Packer Not content to build vSphere templates periodically, this introduction shows how VMware Code Stream and Packer can be combined to trigger builds from Git updates.
vRA Custom Naming in vRealize Automation 8.x (Pt. 2) Having created a mechanism to generate unique hostnames previously, this article follows on with how to integrate the functionality with vRA 8.x.
vRA Custom Naming in vRealize Automation 8.x (Pt. 1) vRA 8.x offers several built-in mechanisms for naming workloads. This article covers them briefly and starts the process to go fully custom.
Packer Creating vSphere VM templates with Packer (part 7) - Further plans The final (short) post in this series. Now that vSphere templates can be built repeatably, it's time to think about the next steps to take things further.
Packer Creating vSphere VM templates with Packer (part 6) - CentOS Having created a Windows template, in Part 6 of this series it's now time to make one for Linux using my go-to distro, CentOS 8.
Packer Creating vSphere VM templates with Packer (part 5) - Windows templates Armed with some vSphere variables, it's now time to create a Windows template. In post 5 of this series that process is described.
Packer Creating vSphere VM templates with Packer (part 4) - vSphere variables In part 4 of this series it's finally time to introduce some JSON. The variables that I re-use in every template for telling Packer where to provision machines.
Packer Creating vSphere VM templates with Packer (part 3) - Variables, builders and provisioners In part 3 of this series I cover some of the configuration and terminology required to get going with builds and that will be used in the rest of the series.
Packer Creating vSphere VM templates with Packer (part 2) - Preparation Now Packer is introduced, it's time to prepare for using it to create some vSphere templates. This is part 2 of a series.
Packer Creating vSphere VM templates with Packer (part 1) - Introduction Bored of hand-rolling vSphere templates? I was! This is part 1 of a series that documents creating vSphere templates using Packer.
vRA Installing Ansible Tower on CentOS 8 for testing with vRA 8.1 To try out the new integration with Ansible Tower from vRealize Automation 8.1 I'll need an Ansible Tower server. This is how I installed it on CentOS 8.
vSphere vSphere web client support statement for Adobe Flash Adobe Flash is EoL in December 2020, what does this mean for people on vSphere 6.5?
vRA vRealize Automation 8.1 released vRealize Automation 8.1 is released now and there are some great blogs out there describing the new and changed features.
