Virtualisation | Cloud | Strategy
Police API Stop and Search lookup with Streamlit Following on from the quick API demo I built for the Vehicle Enquiry Service API, I wanted to revisit some work I’d previously done that used the UK Police Data API along with metabase and other technologies to help interrogate public policing data. Using the streamlit library […]
Vehicle Enquiry Service API Lookup Demo The Goal To build a web based application that allows the retrieval of vehicle information from the UK DVLA Vehicle Enquiry Service API and package that in a container for simplified distribution. A Vehicle Enquiry Service API Lookup Demo if you like. I’m building this because I find it […]
Pets, Cattle, Ants Pets vs cattle as an analogy to manage IT assets and cloud infrastructure is a decade old. Even before this observation became commonplace, this is something that I’d seen first-hand. When I came into the IT industry, I was often supporting assets named after Knights of the Round Table, Lord of the […]
Adventures with PowerShell, CloudConfig and vRealize Cloud Assembly This week I had a customer with some errors trying to use the following componenets together: PowerShell, CloudConfig, and cloudbase-init within a Cloud Assembly blueprint. To put it bluntly, the code was not running correctly. The customer could run the code locally without any issue. However, as […]
This week I spent some time working through the excellent guides from Saintdle to build new TKG management and workload clusters in Azure. I could write up my own how to and deployment guide here, However, Dean has done a fantastic job of documenting the deployment of the TKG resources within Azure, look no further […]
Cloud Migration Value Creation I recently read an excellent post by Bill Hunt titled Cloudbusting. In this article Bill outlines and challenges some of the myths of cloud computing as he sees it from his federal role. Bill is a contributor to the 2019 Federal Cloud Computing Strategy, “Cloud Smart”, which introduced a subtle change […]
Following on the migration theme just recently, I’ve had a lot of queries over the past month related to VMware HCX licensing, so thought I’d pull this post together for reference. Remind me what is HCX again? VMware Hybrid Cloud Extension (HCX), in its own words is: “an application mobility platform, simplifies application migration, rebalances […]
Mapping the Rationale for Hybrid and Cloud DCs It seems like where ever you look across the public cloud landscape you will find a partnership between VMware and Hyperscaler. Far from 2020 being the year of VDI, it seems to be the year to move your VMware workloads, as VMware workloads, into a Hyperscalers cloud. […]
Run Microsoft SQL Server Linux inside Kubernetes on VMware Tanzu
What is the role of Robotic Process Automation in Digital Transformation? I was recently asked a few questions that got me thinking what is the role of Robotic Process Automation in Digital Transformation? So what prompted that? Well, I had the privilege of presenting globally to my VMware colleagues as part of the internal RADIO […]