In this article I will demonstrate how to create an Ubuntu 22 template in vCenter. Then use Terraform to create a vSphere VM based on this template. The VM template creation is done by manually stepping through the Ubuntu server ISO installation wizard, followed by a set of preparation steps. Then Terraform is used to … Terraform: creating an Ubuntu 22 template and then guest VM in vCenter
Anthos GKE on-prem is a managed platform that brings GKE clusters to on-premise datacenters. This product offering brings best practice security measures, tested paths for upgrades, basic monitoring, platform logging, and full enterprise support. Setting up a platform this extensive requires many steps as officially documented here. However, if you want to practice in a … Kubernetes: Anthos GKE on-prem 1.13 on nested VMware environment
Anthos GKE on-prem is a managed platform that brings GKE clusters to on-premise datacenters. This product offering brings best practice security measures, tested paths for upgrades, basic monitoring, platform logging, and full enterprise support. Setting up a platform this extensive requires many steps as officially documented here. However, if you want to practice in a … Kubernetes: Anthos GKE on-prem 1.11 on nested VMware environment
Anthos GKE on-prem is a managed platform that brings GKE clusters to on-premise datacenters. This product offering brings best practice security measures, tested paths for upgrades, basic monitoring, platform logging, and full enterprise support. Setting up a platform this extensive requires many steps as officially documented here. However, if you want to practice in a … Kubernetes: Anthos GKE on-prem 1.10 on nested VMware environment
Anthos GKE on-prem is a managed platform that brings GKE clusters to on-premise datacenters. This product offering brings best practice security measures, tested paths for upgrades, basic monitoring, platform logging, and full enterprise support. Setting up a platform this extensive requires many steps as officially documented here. However, if you want to practice in a … Kubernetes: Anthos GKE on-prem 1.9 on nested VMware environment
Update Dec 2021: I have written an updated version of this article for vCenter 7.0U1 and Anthos 1.9. Anthos GKE on-prem is a managed platform that brings GKE clusters to on-premise datacenters. This product offering brings best practice security measures, tested paths for upgrades, basic monitoring, platform logging, and full enterprise support. Setting up a … Kubernetes: Anthos GKE on-prem 1.8 on nested VMware environment
If you have just virtualized the VMware ESXi server on top of KVM, the next step will be to install vCenter for its centralized control and additional feature set and management capabilities. In my last article we took KVM running on bare metal and deployed an ESXi 7.0 host on top of it. In this … KVM: Deploy the VMware vCenter 7.0 appliance using the CLI installer
Update Dec 2021: I have written an updated version of this article for vCenter 7.0U1 and Anthos 1.8. Anthos GKE on-prem is a managed platform that brings GKE clusters to on-premise datacenters. This product offering brings best practice security measures, tested paths for upgrades, basic monitoring, platform logging, and full enterprise support. Setting up a … Kubernetes: Anthos GKE on-prem 1.4 on nested VMware environment
In a previous post, I described how to install and use the ‘govc‘ tool – which is a command line tool for working with VMware vCenter. When you do a listing on a virtual machine “govc ls -l -json <vmpath>”, you are returned back a very detailed JSON data structure that contains all the information … Python: JSONPath to extract vCenter information using govc
The vSphere web GUI is a nice visual tool, but if you need to retrieve vCenter information in bulk or perform mass operations across VMs, then a command line tool such as govc in invaluable. govc is written in Go, which means it has support on Linux as well as most other platforms.
Update Nov 2021: I have written a newer article that deploys vCenter 7.0. If you have just virtualized the VMware ESXi 6.7 server on top of KVM, the next step will be to install vCenter 6.7 for its centralized control and additional feature set and management capabilities. In my last article we took KVM running … KVM: Deploy the VMware vCenter 6.7 appliance using the CLI installer