Fun with PKS, K8s, MongoDB Helm Charts and vSAN
I've been spending a bit of time lately look at our Heptio Velero product, and how it works with various cloud native applications. Next application on my list is MongoDB, another NoSQL database. I looked at various deployment mechanisms for MongoDB, and it seems that using Helm Charts is the most popular approach. This led me to the Bitnami MongoDB Stack [...]
More Velero – Cassandra backup and restore
In my previous exercise with Heptio Velero, I looked at backing up and restoring a Couchbase deployment. This time I turned my attention to another popular containerized [...]
A first look at Heptio Velero (previously known as Ark)
Those of you who work in the cloud native space will probably be aware of VMware's acquisition of Heptio back in December 2018. Heptio bring much expertise and a number of [...]
Pivotal and Harbor – x509 certificate issues
After deploying and configuring the Harbor tile in Pivotal Ops Manager, I ran into a couple of issues with certificates. The first was encountered when I was trying to [...]
PKS and NSX-T: Error: Timed out pinging after 600 seconds
I'm still playing with PKS 1.3 and NSX-T 2.3.1 in my lab. One issue that I kept encountering was that when on deploying my Kubernetes cluster, my master and worker nodes kept [...]
New vRealize Automation, Cloud Assembly integration with SPBM
At VMworld last year, Duncan Epping and I presented on the power of Storage Policy Based Management (SPBM for short). You can find all of the slides and recordings here. One [...]
Reviewing PKS logs and status
After a bit of a sabbatical, I am back to looking PKS (Pivotal Container Service) again. I wanted to look at the new version 1.3, but I had to do a bit of work on my [...]