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docker-machine driver plugin for Photon Controller
In previous posts we have looked at using a “cluster” for deploying docker swarm on top of photon controller. Of course, deploying docker swarm via the cluster management construct may not be what...
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Compare and Contrast: Photon Controller vs VIC (vSphere Integrated Containers)
As many regular reader will be aware, I’ve been spending a lot of time recently on VMware’s Cloud Native App solutions. This is due to an internal program available to VMware employees called a Take-3....
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Deploy Docker Swarm using docker-machine with Consul on Photon Controller
In this post I will now show you the steps involved in creating a Docker Swarm configuration using docker-machine with Photon Controller driver plugin. In previous posts, I showed how you can setup...
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Getting Started with vSphere Integrated Containers v0.4.0
I’ve been working very closely with our vSphere Integrated Container (VIC) team here at VMware recently, and am delighted to say that v0.4.0 is now available for download from GitHub. Of course, this...
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Container Volumes in VIC v0.4.0
I mentioned yesterday that VMware made vSphere Integrated Containers (VIC) v0.4.0 available. Included in this version is support for container volumes. Now, as mentioned yesterday, VIC is still a work...
View ArticleGetting started with vSphere Integrated Containers (short video)
I decided to put together a very short video on VIC – vSphere Integrated Containers v0.4.0. In the video, I show you how to create your very first VCH (Virtual Container Host) and then I show you how...
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Container Networks in VIC 0.4.0
This is part of a series of articles describing how to use the new features of vSphere Integrated Containers (VIC) v0.4.0. In previous posts, we have looked at deploying your first VCH (Virtual...
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Upcoming #vBrownBag EMEA Appearance – July 26th at 7pm BST
As my take-3 tenure in the VMware Cloud Native Apps (CNA) team draws to a close, the guys over at #vBrownBag have kindly invited me to come on their show and talk about the various VMware project and...
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Using vSphere docker volume driver to run Project Harbor on VSAN
Project Harbor is another VMware initiative in the Cloud Native Apps space. In a nutshell, it allows you to store and distributes Docker images locally from within your own infrastructure. While...
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Project Harbor in action
A short time back, I showed you how to change the Project Harbor configuration to use persistent storage provided by docker volume driver for vSphere and save your images on Virtual SAN. In this post,...
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VMware Cloud Native App Projects – courtesy of vBrownBag
Earlier last month, I was invited onto the #vBrownBag podcast to give an overview of my experiences with the various ongoing VMware Cloud Native App (CNA) projects. I had a great chat with Gregg...
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Nice simple demo – Nginx running on VIC
It’s been a number of weeks since I last looked at vSphere Integrated Containers. When I last looked at v0.4.0, one of the issues had been with port mapping not working. This was a bit of a drag, as in...
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I put together this short vSphere Integrated Containers v0.6.0 video (~4 minutes) showing how you can deploy a container running a web server, in this case Nginx, and have its ports mapped back to the...
View ArticleDocker Volume Driver for vSphere using policies on VSAN (short video)
This is a short demo (< 5 minutes) which highlights how one can use storage policies to manage the creation of a docker volume when that volume is being deployed on Virtual SAN. This does not cover...
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Photon Controller v1.0 is available
Photon Controller version 1.0 was released very recently. Ryan Kelly provides a good overview of what has changed in the UI from previous releases in his blog post here. I got a chance to deploy out...
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Task “CREATE_VM”: step “RESERVE_RESOURCE” failed with error code...
I mentioned yesterday that Photon Controller version 1.0 is now available. I rolled it out yesterday, and just like I did with previous versions, I started to deploy some frameworks on top. My first...
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Some nice enhancements to Docker Volume Driver for vSphere v0.7
This week I am over at our VMware HQ in Palo Alto. I caught up with the guys in our storage team who are working on our docker volume driver for vSphere to find out what enhancements they have made...
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More CNA goodness from VMware – Introducing Admiral
As I prep myself for some upcoming VMUGs in EMEA, I realized that I hadn’t made any mention on a new product that we recently introduced in the CNA (Cloud Native Apps) space called Admiral. In a...
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Kubernetes on vSphere
I’ve talked a lot recently about the various VMware projects surrounding containers, container management, repositories, etc. However one of the most popular container cluster managers is Kubernetes...
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Deploy Kubernetes as a service on Photon Controller v1.1
Now that we have seen how to deploy Photon Controller v1.1 with vSAN, we will look at another new feature of this version of Photon Controller. At VMworld 2016 in Barcelona, Kit Colbert mentioned that...
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