TLDR This years VMware Explore in Las Vegas was an amazing conference filled with great content and an overall really good vibe. The announcements that were made during the conference were extremely interesting and it is great to see the deep investment VMware are making in the AI world together with Nvidia with the whole …
TAP 1.6 – Tanzu Developer Portal Configurator
Backstage is an amazing CNCF Project which is the base for the Tanzu Developer Portal (TDP) which was previously known as TAP GUI. While since the initial GA of TAP, we have had a great portal, which has been enhanced with every release, the portal has not been able to take full advantage of the …
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Making TMC Managed Kapp Controller Trust Your Private CA
Problem Statement Many environments have an image registry such as harbor they use internally which is signed by a private CA. When trying to add a package repository to an attached cluster in TMC from a registry with a private CA, it will fail with an x509 certificate validation error. Solution TMC will deploy Kapp …
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TAP 1.4 – What’s New
TAP 1.4 is a major release for Tanzu Application Platform which includes a bunch of really awesome new features, as well as improvements to existing features in terms of stability and UX.
Integrating Trivy scanner in TAP
One of the really great features in TAP is the pluggable architecture of the scanning tools. In this blog post, we will discuss how one could build such a custom integration, using the very common scanner Trivy.
Finding and Removing Stale CNS Volumes in vSphere
During a recent reorganization of our vSphere lab environment, I was made aware that we had a very weird situation.We use vSAN as our main storage in the lab and we found that it was at over 95% percent used, but only 50 percent could be attributed to VMs and system data. After looking into …
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