The Home SDDC Lab is fully online and operational now, so I’ve begun deploying different Kubernetes clusters, leveraging different CNA projects. The plan is to get better exposure to what the community projects offer before I dive deeper into the VMware Tanzu offerings. After deploying a rather vanilla Kubernetes 1.17.4 cluster with Flannel, I embarked on the journey of leveraging […]
In an effort to get caught-up with the Cloud Native space, I am embarking on an effort to build a completely dynamic Kubernetes environment entirely through code. To accomplish this, I am using (and learning) several technologies, including: Container OS (CoreOS) for the Kubernetes nodes. Ignition for configuring CoreOS. Ansible for automation and orchestration. Kubernetes VMware NSX for micro-segmention, load […]
Hot on the heels of my recent posts, and that from Andrew Nelson, the VMware Big Data Extensions team has released an official fling that extends the functionality to include Mesos, Marathon, Chronos, Docker and Kubernetes! From the site: “Big Data Extensions can be easily extended to deploy and manage all kinds of distributed or non-distributed applications. This release of the BDE-SE […]
