The IT Hollow

This year I’ve totally revamped my home lab to focus on Red Hat technologies.

This post is part of the Red Hat Platform series.

This post is part of the Red Hat Platform series.

This post is part of the Red Hat Platform series.

This post is part of the Red Hat Platform series.

This post is part of a series on OpenShift as a platform.

I’ve always had this feeling that if we really knew how to do IT “the right way” we wouldn’t have all these different tools and methods.

This is part of an ongoing series on OpenShift as a platform for containers, VMs, AI workloads, and developer tooling.

We’ve now reached the era where our jobs might be replaced by artificial intelligence.

Over the past several years, I worked in marketing and spent a lot of time trying to make technical demos more compelling.

Today marks the beginning of the 2024 Formula 1 season, a notable day for my mental well-being as it begins the end of a long, cold winter.

Maybe it’s bougie, but one of the reasons I purchased E200-8d Supermicro Servers for my home lab was because they had IPMI built into them.

Virtual infrastructure has a lot of advantages, but one of the biggest time savers is being able to provision new virtual machines quickly from a template.

In our previous posts we setup a Harvester cluster in our lab, configured the network, and deployed our first VM.

I have a very soft spot in my heart for VMware.

During the previous posts in this series, we deployed a Harvester cluster, setup virtual networks to segment traffic, and deployed our first virtual machine.

In the previous posts, we setup the Harvester cluster and optionally added a virtual machine network and some cluster configs.

In the first post in this series I deployed a Harvester cluster to my home lab servers.

The installation of Harvester starts with deploying your nodes.

Yes, that’s right, this website is now 10 years old, and while there is no cake or ice cream for this celebration, I thought I’d take a second to reflect on what this website, and the 550 blog posts in it, have meant to me personally.

Early this year I saw a challenge drop in my inbox for VMware vExperts to deploy a Plex server with Tanzu Community Edition (TCE).

I was messing around in my vSphere home lab and wanted to try out the new Tanzu Community Edition that was recently announced.

A really common task after deploying a Kubernetes cluster is to configure it to use a container registry where the container images are stored.

My day job requires me to do a lot of work with VMware Cloud on AWS.

At some point, you’ll be faced with an upgrade request.

I was asked for a post detailing my home A/V setup.

Time for an update on the home lab. 2020 meant spending a lot of time at home and there were plenty of opportunities to tinker around with the home lab.

Kubernetes clusters can come in many shapes and sizes.

Your Kubernetes clusters are up and running on vSphere 7 with Tanzu and you can’t wait to get started on your first project.

There is new functionality included in VMware Tanzu Mission Control (TMC) that I’m pretty excited about.

Have you ever missed when trying to properly size an Kubernetes environment?

You’ve deployed your first Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Clusters in vSphere 7 and are beyond the learning phase.

If you’ve worked with Kubernetes for very long, you’ve surely run into a need to manage YAML files.

If you have been following the series so far, you should have a TKG guest cluster in your lab now.

This post will focus on deploying Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) clusters in your vSphere 7 with Tanzu environment.

In this post we’ll setup a vSphere Content Library so that we can use it with our Tanzu Kubernetes Grid guest clusters.

When setting up your vSphere 7 with Tanzu environment, its a good idea to update the default certificate shipped from VMware with your own certificate.

In this post we’ll finally connect to our Supervisor Cluster Namespace through the Kubernetes cli and run some commands for the first time.

Congratulations, you’ve deployed the Workload Management components for your vSphere 7 cluster.

VMware released the new version of vSphere with functionality to build and manage Kubernetes clusters.

This post focuses on enabling the workload management components for vSphere 7 with Kubernetes.

This post describes the lab environment we’ll be working with to build our vSphere 7 with Kubernetes lab and additional prerequisites that you’ll need to be aware of before starting.

This post will review the deployment and configuration of a Tier-0 gateway to provide north/south routing into the NSX-T overlay networks.

This post will focus on deploying our first NSX Gateway/Router and setting up our overlay segments.

NSX-T Edge nodes are used for security and gateway services that can’t be run on the distributed routers in use by NSX-T.

In the previous post we deployed an NSX Manager.

This post will focus on getting the NSX-T Manager deployed and minimally configured in the lab.

Hey!

Just because a container is in a running state, does not mean that the process running within that container is functional.

You’ve built your Kubernetes cluster(s).