The small effort I started at the end of last year using Ansible to deploy NSX components has snowballed a bit and found its way into a project at work. As we are working to deploy a new HCI architecture internally, one of the efforts we are embarking on is a fully automated, infrastructure-as-code architecture design. There are several components […]
It has been a hectic few months for me. I relocated my family to Colorado last month, and as a result all of my side-projects were put on the back-burner. During the time I was away, I was selected for the fourth year in a row as a vExpert! I am grateful to be a part of this awesome community! […]
After working on the code last weekend and testing the functionality this past week, I am proud to announce the ability to create NAT rules on an NSX Edge is possible through Ansible! The ability to create SNAT and DNAT rules on the NSX Edge was a necessity for the Infrastructure-as-Code project, as each environment deployed uses it’s own micro-segmented […]
The Infrastructure-as-Code project is progressing along rather well. When I set out on the project in November of 2017, I wanted to use the project as a means to learn several new technologies — Ansible, Python, CoreOS and Kubernetes. The initial stages of the project focused on understanding how CoreOS works and how to automate the installation of a CoreOS […]
The published NSX modules from VMware lack certain functionality that I’ve needed as I worked on the Infrastructure-as-Code project over the holiday break. A few of the things I need to be able to do include: Enable Edge firewall and add/delete rules Enable DHCP and add IP pools Search for DVS VXLAN port group Associate vNIC with default gateway Create […]
