Containers
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Kubernetes, Hadoop, Persistent Volumes and vSAN
At VMworld 2018, one of the sessions I presented on was running Kubernetes on vSphere, and specifically using vSAN for persistent storage. In that presentation [...]
Kubernetes on vSphere – Virtually Speaking Podcast Episode #86
I was delighted to be asked along to the latest Virtually Speaking podcast last week. I was invited to attend alongside the very smart Frank Denneman. Also [...]
PKS Revisited – Project Hatchway / K8s vSphere Cloud Provider review
As I am going to be doing some talks around next-gen applications at this year's VMworld event, I took the opportunity to revisit Pivotal Container Services [...]