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Since last week, I’ve been running harbor using a self-signed certificate. This is okay for home-lab purpose but annoying once you start integrating with Kubernetes. This is because you need to modify the each node to trust the self-signed cert to be able to push/pull images, and with TKG providing scale-out k8s installation – this is a headache to integrate. To solve this, we can use LetsEncrypt to provi

For this post, I’ll be documenting how to run Harbor behind Traefik in a kubernetes installation. Although the Harbor helm chart can be installed with nginx ingress controller – I already have an ingress controller running in my cluster and I prefer to use it instead. (Also, traefik is way easier to configure :P). Now, to install, configure the following in the values.yaml in the harbor helm chart: values

During the weekend, I wanted to try creating a CI/CD pipeline for web-applications I’ve been developing ( details on a separate post). Given the only experience I have with such technologies (CI/CD Pipeline) is seeing them from marketing slide – this is an opportunity for me to learn and document my experience. Hello Jenkins When you think CI/CD- you’ll always going to come across Jenkins. Now, whil

This post documents the experience in using ansible module for nsx-t https://github.com/vmware/ansible-for-nsxt Prerequisites The following steps were undertaken in a control VM where the ansible playbook will be executed. Install ovftool I’m using ubuntu 18.04 and have downloaded ovftool.bundle from VMware. After uploading the file, issue sh VMware-ovftool-4.3.0-7948156-lin.x86_64.bundle pip3 install --upgrade

The following posts describes some gotchas/ experiences I have while installing AWX to a kubernetes Cluster. The official AWX documentation (in my opinion) is not friendly to newcomers and assumes you have domain knowledge on the target platform you plan to install it on – and even then some items are not clearly defined. See for yourself here: https://github.com/ansible/awx/blob/devel/INSTALL.md Things to cons

A month ago, I took and passed Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) and, a week later, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA). This post is not meant to provide review guidelines but my take on the exam as someone: Who has been taking only VMware Certifications in the last 10 years (my last non-vmware cert is NCDA back in 2010?) Primary experience being a System Administrator Knowledge in Cloud-Native

The following post describes how to update vRealize Automation from 8.0.x to 8.1 manually. Most of the guides that tackles the topic assumes you are directly connected to the internet to pull the upgrade binaries. Unfortunately, this is not the case on some environments where the solution is deployed in an airgapped setup. With that said, here’s the high-level steps on how to go about bring up the solution to 8

TKG Series [TKG Series – Part 1] VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid introduction and installation  [TKG Series – Part 2] Install Kubernetes Cluster(s) using Tanzu Kubernetes Grid   [TKG Series – Part 3] Creating custom plan in Tanzu Kubernetes Grid For this post, I’ll be showing how to create custom plan that can be used when provisioning kubernetes clusters using tkg. Plan is used to define specifics of the provisio

TKG Series [TKG Series – Part 1] VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid introduction and installation  [TKG Series – Part 2] Install Kubernetes Cluster(s) using Tanzu Kubernetes Grid   [TKG Series – Part 3] Creating custom plan in Tanzu Kubernetes Grid For my next post, we will now be installing kubernetes clusters using Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG). With properly configured tkg, the command is straightforward:. Execu