This post is a re-edition of a previous one: VMware Event Broker (aka VEBA) on Kubernetes – First steps, update to be applicable to the new 0.5.0 release of VEBA, including the support of helm chart deployment. In the following post, we will (re)discover how to deploy the VMware Event Broker services (VEBA) within an …
Read MoreHere is a quick memo on the usage of HTTPie to connect to VMware products to explore or use the API. Install (Ubuntu/Debian) 1sudo apt install -qy jq 2sudo pip3 install -U httpie VMware vCenter 1# login 2http POST https://vcsa.vlab.lcl/rest/com/vmware/cis/session --verify=no --session=vcsa -a …
Read MoreUse VMware Container Service Extension with a corporate proxy
The current post is a quickstart to VMware open-source project Container Service Extension (CSE), a Kubernetes as a Service for VMware vCloud Director. The project is already well documented (CSE documentation) and you should not have any trouble to set it up by following the installation steps. Except... if you plan …
Read MoreWarning: Since the publication of VEBA 0.5.0, the development team provides a helm chart deployment method. According to this, I made a re-edition of this post to provide a new setup workflow: VMware Event Broker 0.5.0 (aka VEBA) on Kubernetes – First steps In the following post, we will discover how to deploy the …
Read MoreConclusion Ce n'est pas logique mais je vais conclure ce couple d'articles au sujet du VMworld avant les résumés des conférences regardées ce jour (que vous trouverez donc plus bas dans le présent article). Forcément, un évènement en virtuel n'a pas la saveur d'un évènement en présentiel, surtout quand on apprécie de …
Read MoreIntroduction Cette année le VMworld a une saveur une peu particulière. Habituellement, 2 VMwords (un US et un EU) tiennent place chaque année avec plusieurs milliers de personnes réunies sous un même toit pendant 3 ou 4 jours. Forcément, cette année, ce format n'a pas été possible au regard de la pandémie actuellement …
Read MoreObject notfound in vRO using the vCloud Director plugin
A strange behavior has happened just after vRO installation and vCloud director plugin configuration, I wasn't able to interact with any objects managed by the vcloud director plugin. I created a simple workflow on my lab to illustrate the issue. The workflow cannot be more basic as it has only a single line of code to …
Read MoreUse following commands to set a customized value for request timeout for API extension services: SSH to the vCloud cell(s) then: 1cd /opt/vmware/vcloud-director/bin 2# Get the current value 3./cell-management-tool manage-config -n extensibility.timeout -l 4# Change value 5./cell-management-tool manage-config -n …
Read MoreAfter a short introduction of Swagger Codegen and the context of the demo made for a French vMUG Webinar, we will see how to apply this to VMware products like vCenter and vCloud Director. As this post is following the steps made in the part 1, I strongly encourage you to start with the previous post. Pre-requisites …
Read MoreOn March 30th, I presented a webinar to the French VMUG community on the REST API subject and in particular on the way to generate API SDK clients without writing any code. Slide deck is published (only in french, sorry) here: vupti.me/rls. As said in the slide deck, this presentation was greatly inspired by a VMworld …
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